Lesson 1 A Pianist's First Steps in Transitioning to the Organ

[@johnwidmann1674]

excellent video from Fred Hohman! and...if you want to move on to another fun instrument with pedals, the carillon, you can talk to Don and Sharon, credited at the end, both also carillonneurs!

[@FromHolbergsTime]

Superb!

[@smileallthetime299]

What organ is that he is sitting at with a fireplace to the right of him and where? A stop list somewhere for it online? A home pipe organ?

[@GuildofOrganists]

"The organ seen in the first of the CCPE videos is a 4-manual, 181 stop tablet, 1927-vintage Austin organ console, its Opus 323A. The organ console originally was housed in Merrill Auditorium in Portland, Maine and was taken out of service when the Friends of the Kotzschmar organ replaced the 1927 console with a new 5-manual console. After a period of time when no buyer came forward to purchase the old console, it was purchased from the City of Portland by Frederick Hohman about 2004. From 2004 to 2014, the console was connected to a pipe organ, and the pipes and console were both housed in Frederick Hohman’s home music studio. In 2015, the pipes and chambers were removed in order to accommodate a new library room for music scores and other books. At that time, the organ console became fully renovated throughout, and now the console sends a MIDI signal and drives a Hauptwerk virtual organ system. The organ sounds heard in the CCPE videos from the Hohman studio located are from the organ of Hereford Cathedral in the United Kingdom.”

[@jennydonnelly53232]

I agree that there is more to it than the piano.