Packard - Fort Wayne Company - Organ Harmonium 1887 - sound sample

Packard - Fort Wayne Company - Organ Harmonium 1887 - sound sample

[@samuelli7578]

Wonderful voice leading and modulations! And embellished cadences. Great!

[@Bluegrassboy49]

Beautiful old organ and the playing was suburb. I just love sacred music played on an organ. I am a confessional Lutheran and grew up listening to this marvelous music.

[@michaelcala1698]

Amazing sound for a reed organ!

[@maryturton579]

Awesome! Beautiful!

[@JLHoopes1]

Very beautiful sound, especially with the pedals. I think most reed organs with full pedal boards, like this one, have two manuals, also, this must now have electric supplied air, although I think I see the pumping handle on the right move a little bit. This is very beautiful. Thank you for playing and posting.

[@fordtruxdad5155]

I believe that's actually a velvet cordon, not anything connected to the organ.

[@Quentiny_]

Damn! that sounds and that view! 1000+!

[@francois7]

This is quite powerful !

[@tonyfurtado5595]

Beautiful sound!

[@tracybastian3091]

Чудово! Awesome.

[@TheoVosloo]

One of the most powerful and best I have heard. Bravo!

[@markusbusch6846]

Schönes Instrument, schöne Aussicht 😊

[@christianhauf2018]

Ja, ich liebe diese Aussicht - wir wohnen praktisch wie in einem Aussichtsturm mit Blick auf die Stadt Bad Harzburg und die Berge - erhebend.

[@TomaszWalczakHarmonium]

Ein wunderbarer Klang Christian ❤

[@christianhauf2018]

Tomasz - Ich bin auch absolut erstaunt, was für einen bombastischen Klang dieses Instrument hat 😮

[@jorgwalter9055]

klingt grandios!

[@stephandippon9973]

Fantastisch! Steht das bei Dir zu Hause? Darf seit gestern ein Druckwind-Harmonium mein eigen nennen. Hier gibt es noch viele verborgene Schätze zu heben und wieder auf die Bühnen, die Kirchen und die Wohnzimmer zu bringen.

[@christianhauf2018]

@@stephandippon9973 Ja, das Instrument steht bei mir im Haus - aus einer absoluten Ruine ist wieder ein echt klanggewaltiges Instrument geworden - ein Orgelbauer hatte es - wohlwissend um seine Einzigartigkeit - aus einer Kirche vor der Entsorgung bewahrt und mir überlassen - ich hab es in unzähligen Stunden gereinigt, die Bälge neu bezogen und alle Filzteile erneuert, viele zerbrochene Teile geleimt - jetzt spielt es wieder und ich berausche (😅) mich tagtäglich daran. Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Druckwind-Harmonium - darf ich fragen, um was für ein Instrument es sich genau handelt? Ich bin neugierig - habe selbst vor allem Druckwind-Instrumente in meiner Sammlung. LG aus dem Harz

[@stephandippon9973]

@@christianhauf2018 Glückwunsch zu diesem gewaltigen Instrument! Das Druckwind-Harmonium ist ein Reissmann-Instrument, wobei Thomas Reilich (OBM) nach Zusendung von Bilder meinte, es sei wahrscheinlich ein gelabeltes Hinkel. Reissmann war Klavierhändler in München. Neben dem Reissmann steht noch ein Mason & Hamlin.

[@scronx]

Magnificent. An improvisation?

[@christianhauf2018]

Yes - to try out the newly restored organ ☺️

[@scronx]

@@christianhauf2018 We salute you on getting it done and saving an extraordinary specimen. I've been a reed organ FREAK all my long life, since before I ever saw or heard one for the first time. It pains me to think how many of them get thrown out every year or turned into desks.

[@user-xb1eb8ol5m]

I'm assuming you retrofitted the harmonium with an electric pump as you're using the key pedals. That must have been quite the job! 👍

[@user-xb1eb8ol5m]

Where on earth or what other planet, did you get that!? Its incredible, what kind of stops does it have? 😮

[@christianhauf2018]

@@user-xb1eb8ol5m The instrument was to be disposed of in a church - it was completely broken and a ruin - but a historically committed organ builder saved the harmonium from being disposed of - I carefully restored it and was amazed at the radiant sound it has - this model has a total of 5 sets of reeds in the manual and 1 reed set in the pedal (16').

[@user-xb1eb8ol5m]

👍

[@user-xb1eb8ol5m]

You don't often see a harmonium with organ pedals!

[@jameskennerly4487]

Beautiful-what’s the piece?

[@christianhauf2018]

Hello James Kennerly - This was just an improvisation for testing purposes once the instrument had been fully restored.

[@JLHoopes1]

I forgot to write, is this a European harmonium or American. If European, does it blow air into the reeds, whereas in America I think it is sucked in.

[@christianhauf2018]

Dear JLHoopes1 it is an American suction wind harmonium from the "Packard Organ Company" brand - that's why it has such a radiant power in its sound - I love this instrument