Huge Pipe Organ in Small House, Michigan

[@ltaproductions7989]

The neighbours must love this family

[@giladro5]

I would surely do :)

[@stephenallen1149]

Yes, I was wondering about that.

[@uribenyehudah]

Or hate! lol I really would be their best friend!!! :)

[@OrganNLou]

@MrJayguess Electronic organs dont have blowers

[@johnruiz8758]

@MrJayguess I believe it's around 30 ranks roughly. I will have to count stops or find the AGO info on the instrument. No borrowing all independent except some of the pedal stops are mixed in as a resultant. And one digital 32 foot rank.

[@johnruiz8758]

I live a few blocks away and I played the instrument many times. The new owner is open for visitors to come out and play. Also, the pipe chamber rooms is an addition to the home and was constructed specifically for the organ. The rooms can be converted to bedrooms if the organ is to be removed. Also, the organ room addition is built into a small hill. So you don't hear a whole lot out side of the home. :-)

[@resonantdave]

Important details, thanks!

[@bigredc222]

I was wondering how much the neighbors could hear.

[@nevermind577]

I hope they NEVER remove it... I wish I had one... 🤓

[@AshishSinghPaL777]

@@resonantdave Getting ready for a robbery bro?

[@johnruiz8758]

@Sam Morex it really isn't that loud. The voicing was done well! And all divisions have expression shades to control volume. It's really a delightful organ to play.

[@kiqw]

I used to have a noisy neighbor upstairs and this is precisely what I wanted at that time to use in retaliation. LOL

[@artusdreimalneun2595]

just pull all the stops... ALL of them!

[@drewway9599]

64' stop in a residence... imagine that, imagine the foundation problems!

[@Engineer9736]

And the neighbors thought that it was a chimney sticking out of the roof.. ;-)

[@tvjeff53]

If I had this house with this beautiful Pipe organ I would be playing it everyday and ministering to the neighbors with this wonderful instrument, 2300 pipes that is great

[@tvjeff53]

I am a pipe organ enthusiast, and this organ is a really nice one. If I could get there to Michigan I would enjoy playing that organ, I am an organist myself and I have loved and been fascinated with pipe organs ever since I was a kid.

[@PanzerDave]

Have you seen Frasier Gartshore's channel? He is a pipe organist and he travels around Germany playing and examining various pipe organs. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYuplqernNObr68

[@davidtoth2622]

I wish I have a pipe organ like this cuz I always wanted to play on one

[@enighbert1]

@@davidtoth2622 for a small one they cost as low as 1500 to install

[@DeletedDevilDeletedAngel]

@@enighbert1 I mean its very expensive for a small one is probably why

[@Cherriedsalmonbowl]

I can connect you if you want. I know the homeowner, Dave L.

[@Highinsight7]

I PLAYED this thing... many times... It was walking distance from my old house... I was the music director at The Basilica in GR at the time...

[@kimosabbe50]

I wish I could've heard you play it : )

[@arfriedman4577]

Wow fantastic job

[@danopticon]

To people joking that the neighbors must hate it: I’m lucky to live in a building which pre-pandemic had many students from the nearby music school renting space in it… and the _nicest_ part of any weekday afternoon or weekend was throwing open my windows or going out and lying under the trees in the grassy courtyard and hearing flutists, cellists, violinists, and other instrument players all tuning up and practicing! ❤️🎶❤️

[@pauljames5914]

I used to have a small pipe organ in my basement. I kind of miss it sometimes 😢

[@omardude39]

This instrument is absolutely beautiful!!!!! I'd love to hear that in person. The entire section is just awe-inspiring. A full organ is not a single instrument, it is a whole wind section.

[@acutemadness]

It sounds like foreplay and fooling yourself a bit at the end

[@tvjeff53]

This Pipe organ is beautiful, and if I ever get there to Michigan I would love to play that Pipe organ.

[@classicalmidiorgans]

I am glad you made a recording from this instrument- so that it will be preserved for the future-

[@KPO6859]

There will be more recordings of this instrument in the future, completely at the discretion of the performers. It is in good hands.

[@arfriedman4577]

Nice sound and playing. Cool home. Have fun and success.

[@thebog11]

I'll just say that it's really refreshing to see Jim Alfredson, one of the best Hammond players around, abusing the crescendo pedal like a student at his first lesson. By the way, if you haven't already, you should check out his combo, organissmo. Really good stuff.

[@patrickoudejans]

Yeah, I love how he keeps confusing the crescendo pedal with a Hammond swell pedal. I wonder how the other swell pedals are used though. Do they gradually open the doors of the rooms the divisions are in? I didn't see any shutters or something.

[@michaelheintz8853]

Too cool! Even an en chamade trumpet.

[@theminibishop]

What a fun house! Thanks for the home state love!

[@bobbeaumont324]

Very nice presentation! Pipe Organ is definitely my favorite instrument! I have come to like electrics as time has gone on. I have a Wurlitzer 4300 double 44 key manuals.

[@clockboy8638]

Screw the pipe organ! I want that 8-day wall clock!

[@mapp4751]

HI, Great video.do not know much about pipe organs but i love the sound and love the organ in jazz,blues or the classics! thanks alot!

[@szymongorczynski7621]

Are the swell pedals for the doors? lol.

[@phillgreenland2390]

Szymon Gorczynski LOLOL

[@WiktoriaSzalaty]

Oooo. Polska ;) Te organy o wiele lepsze niż keyboardy oazowe.

[@davidtoth2622]

Lol that would be cool

[@FuckKamalaHarris]

😂😂

[@undertaker11ism]

lol

[@JonnyMusicOrganist]

I never knew this existed until today! Simply amazing! :-D

[@KPO6859]

I have placed an offer on the house and will fly in to see it in two weeks to start the paperwork. Hopefully the house itself meets my personal needs [so far, so good]. If it does, this organ will remain in the residence and be well maintained by the gentlemen who built it. The local AGO will be welcome, too. Perhaps a teacher would be willing to trade some lessons for students to access the organ? To correct some numbers, it has 2,300 pipes and is a 3/32.

[@KPO6859]

Did he show you the house? Did you sign paperwork?

[@richardstoc]

It would be great to hear if you did get the home and know that everything is going as you planned concerning the organ. I would be interested to really know the history of the Organ where it came from a church or theater in the local area or from some other location the accounts of its history on the video's I have seen do not mention much of its history.

[@alexanzivino4096]

Do you own the home?

[@freecharles3902]

How’s is sound???

[@luispinon5902]

Do you own the home?

[@zachw7430]

Grandkid comes Grandparent: “Here’s your room. Grandkid: ...? Grandparent: “Can you maybe just, like, sleep around the pipes?”

[@andrewbarrett1537]

"...Oh, and by the way, we rise early in this household. If you're not up by 7 AM the organ will wake you up!" 🤣

[@fujifrontier]

Yessssss

[@andrewbarrett1537]

I know many folks (mostly in the theatre organ society, but some not) who have installed small pipe organs in their home... usually anywhere from 3 to 10 ranks or so. It can be done if you have a large family room, or a spare bedroom, or are willing to give up part or all of your basement etc etc. Of course it takes a whole lot of knowledge and skills, etc and getting it all to not just work right but SOUND GOOD in the house, but it can be done, and sometimes turn out surprisingly well. Here's a smaller (5 rank) theatre pipe organ all installed (except for the blower and the console which are in different parts of the house) in one average-sized bedroom in an average sized house. They even left the wallpaper and the drapes! (Not recommended!). This organ hasn't had the voicing attended to since installation (according to the owner), although this *should* be done with installations, but it's in tune and gives a surprisingly good account of itself, so a home installation can sound at least this good if it's all working: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3PFc4iCeth-qaM

[@shango02005]

Holy crap! That is incredible!

[@cornwall59]

One word,Just Amazing !

[@mateuszurbaniak9720]

Those are two words

[@pamelaparzych3489]

This organ is soooo special and valuable. Oh to have this built into my house, I would invite famous organists to have a go at it.

[@dylanreischling4151]

I love how when he starts it up the lights dim and there’s this faint screech from the basement

[@KingdaToro]

That's what you get when you start a big electric motor, for the blower in this case.

[@kyotokid4]

...had a friend in Milwaukee who installed a 2 manual with full pedal pipe organ he bought used in his small 1 floor home. Pipes and windchests were in the cellar (the 16' pipes were laid horizontal under the ceiling rafters), in the living room where the console was and in the attic (the swell division) above with with grilles to allow the sound to flow into down to where the console was. You didn't just play the organ, you literally played the house.

[@pauljames5914]

I knew Dave too. He took the organ out later. I actually got a rank of flutes from him when he moved out. Later he just had speakers up in the attic loft connected to an Allen organ. I used to have a pipe organ in my Milwaukee house as well. Fun but take up a lot of space.

[@clockboy8638]

How loud is this organ in decibels (db)?

[@guikirsch9758]

One thing that is (or was) worthy of consideration for the new homeowner is that many organ pipes are made from a good amount of lead/antimony.

[@florinbaiduc]

As long as you're not eating it, you'll be perfectly fine...

[@andrewbarrett1537]

@@florinbaiduc Basically.

[@acutemadness]

I’m in an 1000 sqft house the attic is unusable I wonder how much it would cost to fill with a pipe organ i wouldn’t want a pipe lower than the note e0 which my guitar octave pedal can go down lower if tuned below standard I’d also want 88 keys since I already have an organ style keyboard being the typical 61

[@CraigRodmellMusic]

My late Father would have loved this place. This would have been his idea of a House.

[@bosko4139]

Queen of instruments!

[@lil_louie_6366]

what an absolutely beautiful machine! i hope the owner takes care of this masterpiece!

[@stylusfantasticus]

for an organist this is the real meaning of every house.....

[@lindendrechsler6003]

Me: What a great instrument, it's just amazing!! My mom: I wonder how they clean the windows.....

[@javitosan97]

OMG!!! And where did you placed the blower, bellows and the computer??????? It's simply amazing to have in a house such a giant instrument!!! 0.O

[@andrewbarrett1537]

In most home installations, the blower goes in the basement, but some homes don't have a basement, so the blower goes in a closet (with PLENTY of adequate ventilation and fireproofing!!!) or in the garage, or in a little lean-to added on to the back or side of the house just to house the blower. The relay (whether original electropneumatic, or more recent solid-state or computer) could be placed a variety of places including in the pipe chamber itself, although the older relays usually aren't in the chamber because they 'clack' a little bit when working, and it's best to keep these mechanical noises isolated from the music produced by the organ itself. In theatres, they usually are in a small dedicated relay room.

[@dhey007]

Amazing sound considering where the pipes are located!

[@breakfastplan4518]

Outstanding!!

[@noahhellman]

why does this not have more views?

Really fantastic organ!!

[@andrewdecker1909]

I knew the man it's part of my oragan lol same as the one in Toledo and the one you speak of in Holland mi. Im the guy you want to meet!

[@StevenCampbell1955]

Might have problems selling this as a three bedroom house. The entertainment unit is all encompassing.

[@AlcorMoog]

What the hell did you put me in the coffee this morning ??? I have absurd visions !!!

[@DGneoseeker1]

I NEED THIS HOUSE.

[@WoodymC]

Already planning on how to copy this... ;)

[@w0by]

this is wonderful!

[@apxpandy4965]

I've got a few spare bedrooms if he wants to store it! Is the spec published anywhere? Great presentation - thanks!

[@Naverdo]

Was this video shot in like 10 fps?

[@pipespel]

Wonderful!Amazing!

[@nolinnellz3499]

2 thousandth like

[@luismlex2886]

Which instrument do you play? I play the house

[@alexbailey3508]

I don't know ANYTHING about organ maintenance but by the looks of things it looks mighty crowded if you ever needed to get at the pipes. Good luck with that and with the life of a GOOD sounding pipe organ!

[@KPO6859]

alex bailey It is not as bad as it looks. Usually classical/romantic instruments are packed pretty tight, but the walkway provides significant ease. The pipes on the offsets, the bigger pipes, are laid out beautifully.

[@loewtemp]

+KPO6859 Please allow me two questions: Are you the new owner of this miraculous opus? Would it be sad to know about the destiny of its creator or will he be honored sometimes in the future as an incomparable organ enthusiast?

[@andrewbarrett1537]

It depends on the installation. An acquaintance in the Los Angeles area has a 3/15 hybrid theatre pipe organ crammed/shoehorned into his one story home. I think it started out as less than 15 ranks, but as more ranks and chests were added, it got more and more full in the chamber until you have to be like a beanstalk to just get into it and tune anything much less work on it (yes, he is very thin and also an accomplished technician). But I guess he doesn't mind this so much since he does all the maintenance himself, and it sounds REALLY GOOD.

[@DFSchmagel]

The only thing missing is the ambient reverberation that a large venue like a cathedral has. Without that reverb the sound is dry and incomplete. Definitely not meant for such a condensed installation!

[@curtchase3730]

LOL. I was thinking the same. Great rich full sound, amazing installation and all, but flat. Then I saw that non vented gas space heater at the bottom of the steps..ouch! They emit lots of corrosive gases! I know, I have one in my work shop and it caused the whole side of my toolbox to rust! I wonder what the house is like now?

[@therealchayd]

@@curtchase3730 Its mostly water vapor and CO2 they emit, fortunately wooden pipes and wind chests need some moisture in the air, especially during the winter, to stop the wood from drying out and cracking (in fact a lot of organs have humidifiers installed near the blowers to draw moist air into the system). The metal pipes are lead and tin, so don't really rust, just tarnish.

[@rothschildianum]

Oh my....The gentleman must be crazy!

[@taylorharvey9669]

Loved this video!!!

[@Motor-City_Ben-Diesel]

Absolutely incredible!

[@denislavoie4974]

How often do you have it tune?

[@itzz_blumpy7579]

Okay, I know nothing about organs or how they are played, but at 1:44, how does he play the high notes without playing any keys? Was he using the foot pedals?

[@BruceCox]

He was using the "crescendo" pedal. It adds stops as he presses the pedal forward, subtracts them as he rotates it back. The other (4?) pedals control the shutters on the various pipe chambers, thereby controlling volume on each of the divisions (three manuals and the pedals gives a total of four divisions). For most organs in churches, etc., the pedal division and great division are not enclosed. For a chamber organ, such as this (in a small place), it's necessary to enclose all the pipes in order to balance the sounds from the different division. Between the crescendo pedal and the shutters, a great variety of effects can be achieved, increasing and decreasing volume and changing the character of the sounds produced.

[@BruceCox]

Just to clarify, he was using the expression pedals to add stops, not the two-octave pedalboard of the pedal division.

[@itzz_blumpy7579]

VEry helpful. Thank you

[@itzz_blumpy7579]

Bruce Cox okay I have one more question. When he was playing and all of a sudden all the stops turn themselves on, how is that working? What is he doing to do that?

[@SternDrive]

That is called preselects. The organ has a memory. You pull the stops before you start playing and memorize by pressing the little round preselect buttons. Then while playing you don't need to pull a bunch of stops. They are all memorized and you just punch one of the little buttons under the keyboard. Magic !

[@kenny9021043]

Someone is living my dream. I swear to Almighty GOD if I ever have the money.

[@andrewbarrett1537]

You already have the name. Now all you need is the instrument.

[@shiningarmor2838]

4:41 "Don't hit the trumpet, don't hit the trumpet..."

[@daveluttinen2547]

+Shining Armor There are two trumpets.

[@shiningarmor2838]

The menacing horizontal one

[@wishfulwoomy9159]

Shining Armor i

[@mindjoystudio6436]

Super fun. I would totally buy that house. Id be playing Close Encounters Tocatta and Fugue!!

[@DandyDon1]

I think I met you at NAMM Jim, you are a friend of Ides of March Scott May Hammond USA? I don't think we saw you there this year. There just do not seem to be many Kimball pipe organs around. The only one I have ever had the pleasure of hearing and sitting with my associate up close is the one in Aimee Semple McPherson's church Angelus Temple.

[@univhearse]

That's Awesome !! I tune Organs for a living, I am in Indiana and do services on Pipe Organs in Michigan (Brighton,Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids) , If you ever want somebody to take good care of that organ, let me know. Stephane Langelier Pipe Organ Service Company. And I am curious, how much is the house listed for ?

[@RodyCar]

That's incredible

[@doudymac]

Thanks "Daily Dose of Internet" ,😁👍🏼

[@jimmythetrumpet6915]

This is pretty cool.

[@antoniomaglione4101]

Well. This is not an house with a pipe organ inside, but a rather professionally built organ with an house around it. While it can't be the right house for a typical family, it could be the dream recording setup for a record music label, as it is possible to place microphones in the most ideal locations, close to the pipe ranks, while cheaply adding anti-reflection sound coating to the wall. Being an high quality organ (see the alloy used for pipes, the stable tuning, the quality of the wood), a music label could record the best solo works, with room for the organist and sound engineer to sleep local for the length of the work...

[@cmhughes8057]

I would not be upset living next door to this, this is actually pretty cool.

[@richardstoc]

One thing to consider if someone that has a organ like this installed in there home is to leave it in your will to the American theater organ society so that it maybe preserved and placed back into a venue worthy of the grandeur that this instrument deserves, whether it is a theater organ or former church organ so that future generation may have the opportunity to enjoy them. We have lost so many organs to being destroyed by neglect ,greed or being broken up or trashed by those who have no interest in preserving them. There are many that could and would enjoy hearing music being played from an intact instrument located in a space that it was design to be played in a large public space. I am not associated with ATOS it is just that I would like to see that these grand instruments find there way back into a place where everyone could enjoy them.

[@andrewbarrett1537]

You could/should be an ATOS member as well as maybe an OHS (Organ Historical Society) member. They need more new younger members for sure to keep the organizations going.

[@shari-annbolton4449]

What a organ If is was mine so would be playing Franck Bach Mendelssohn Widow and much more

[@Engineer9736]

I would really love to hear some of that on this organ. Recordings would be awesome, listening to it IRL there even more (though thats quite a trip for me)

[@markhall7646]

Widow?

[@andrewbarrett1537]

@@markhall7646 I think they meant "Widor" ? 🤔

[@RionPhotography]

I dunno, I'd rather have a really nice allen electric organ and two extra rooms in my house lol

[@organrick]

Me too. I think that a pipe organ might be too impractical for a home setting. I have 2 Allen organs in my home, one’s in the dining room, and the other one is in the living room. I don’t know if I’d want to have a couple of rooms that are essentially unusable (I mean for use as a bedroom, or whatever other use you would have for it.) Both of those organs are 2 manual ones.

[@mattbeef1221]

I think a nice hauptewerk organ would suit this house a lot better than the pipe organ, it wouldn't sound exactly like real pipes but I think that it would sound a lot better given that this house has an extremely dead acoustic. plus it would be a hell of a lot cheaper. it could sound like this kzbin.info/www/bejne/gnO4n4uBiKx3aJo I still think that the organ in this house is cool though

[@lancemgy]

Cool! But where are the pipes in relation to the console? Are walls cut out so the pipes can speak into the room? You go from console directly to pipe chambers with no way to see the relationship of where they are physically. Sounds good though.

[@JimAlfredson]

The pipes are behind me as I play the console. The walls of the two spare bedrooms were cut out and louvers installed to let the sound through.

[@KPO6859]

The pipe chambers were added for the organ and were never bedrooms. The sound comes through what was, at one time, windows on the east side of the house.

[@bigjimmy3792]

I would be playing Davy Jones theme all the time

[@Renatodonadio]

Imagine this organ being built side by side with the organ of the Phillips Ballroom in Atlantic City ;-D

[@davidfernandosalcedo4534]

An how do I buy the house

[@KK-mp1rl]

Jaka traktura?

[@stylusfantasticus]

The house windows....belong to the swell section?¿??¿

[@Tageine]

Honey, we need to buy a Summer home! Holy cow! What is/was the asking price?

[@lego-qc5lw]

Was this house ever sold with the organ in tact?

[@KPO6859]

lego1961 Yes.

[@georgemurphy2579]

House on the market ... thrice the price with the organ. Wonderful instrument. Seems larger than 2300 pipes, however.

[@PatriciaPrice]

I need this in my life.

[@no-gj2yw]

Daily dose of internet?

[@user-in4ex3tr4d]

me to

[@chieftp]

I would not have guessed 1929 on that organ. it looks a lot more modern. I would guess about 1952 on the house itself.

[@techmanmotherboard9505]

he said he isn't a pipe organist but this guy rocks that organ

[@lemay1973]

he is a hammond organist. the real difference is the range of sound and the amount of power from such a large pipe organ. i used to own a hammond organ, they are lovely

[@mrmusiclover4178]

Living in that house would be like living INSIDE a pipe organ! The neighbors should love that!

[@gsten2116]

This is the best thing ever. What do the neighbors think?

[@marcelobrunorodrigues7630]

I would like to know the disposition of this instrument, please. Greetings from Brazil.

[@KarlSheen]

OMG! when can i move in!!!!

[@mrstevebournias]

surprisingly successful tonally in this probably not original setting...sounds quite nice

[@lemay1973]

of course it is not the original setting, it was in a church

[@lilianabelfiore4910]

amazing.....

[@beebeequail]

Is it still available?

[@samueltabak6197]

At 2:06 what song is he playing?

[@stevewilcoxson7173]

That’s the work of true Artisans. Steve Jobs also owened a massive Aeolian Pipe garden in his 17,000 sq ft Woodside, Calif mansion that he lived in for ten years

[@andrewbarrett1537]

Yes, the Jackling organ. You can read lots more about it online.

[@skn9895]

Obviously not in an HOA regulated neighborhood...

[@Gartro]

So what's the asking price?

[@adyn315]

Gartro millions and millions of dollars

[@LeoLeo-qo7yw]

Actually, like 600k dollars

[@Engineer9736]

The house itself didn’t look like much more worth than 200k. And that organ probably didn’t cost another 400k. It’s a beautiful installation but on a more boring note, the house is not a house anymore. There is no normal room left except the kitchen.

[@JoshuaMars]

Hmmm. I want. A lot.

[@liquidsheaven]

for the love of music.

[@faysalyolandra8549]

That's EPIC

[@XY_Dude]

wonder if he used "choir boys" to open and close the room doors for swell! I'm jealous... So much for Hauptwerk!

[@Engineer9736]

Hauptwerk costs nothing compared to such a real pipe organ. Only a console like that costs already around the 10 grand. And all the pipes windchests air ducts blower key action will cost many many more than the console.

[@XY_Dude]

You think??!

[@Engineer9736]

Have a look for Hauptwerk console webshops on the internet... the smallest you'll find starts at 4K :) Any little step bigger adds many thousands quickly.

[@andrewbarrett1537]

@@Engineer9736 You can save a large pipe organ from the dump for the cost of hauling, but you need to be able to afford a place to store / put it, and have the skills / learn the skills / have enough money to hire people to install it, or if not in playing order, restore and install it. Doing it yourself saves a lot of this money but does produce variable results depending upon how musically astute you are, your woodworking and metalworking skills etc. Yes, hiring a professional organbuilding firm to restore a rough pipe organ you save, depending upon the size, condition etc can cost thousands or even over a million dollars, or nearly as much as a new one. Pipe organs are delicate instruments in some ways (and very heavy in others) and so installation and good voicing etc is much more complicated than a simple DIY job like doing your own plumbing for your house.