A Piping Organism or Wurli Sounds Off

[kb2vxa]

Oh I'm sure you've seen the fluff and filler TV news fills the last half hour with after they run out of news in 10 minutes and can't find enough commercials to fill the rest of the hour, right? Well, somebody discovered Fred Hermes of Racine, Wisconsin and what he like the infamous Leon Berry has in his basement... PIPES! Being a pipe organ fan and have a personal attachment to the Mighty Wurlitzer theatre organ (long story of my feckless youth) I;m hoping there are others like myself here on the Island who will appreciate these offerings and maybe seek out a few more. This will explain what it's all about http://www.dairylandtheatreorgan.org/hermes.html and THIS is some of my favorite music and by some odd coincidence, Kay McAbee's too, recognize the score from South Pacific?

Then for those who like camp horror and Vincent Price he too has an organ in the basement with the console on a lift. I decided to toss it in because I like Mendelssohn, the twisted mind of Samuel Z. Arkoff and the organ in St. John's Cathedral in London. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEIjP_k-u_g

[WØTKX]

I like 'em all. From pipes to the Hammonds. And now, some organ "Power".

http://youtu.be/bxsCY-bipg0


http://youtu.be/bxsCY-bipg0

[NQ6U]

I like 'em all. From pipes to the Hammonds.

If you like pipe organs, you need to come to San Diego and check out this one:

http://tourguidetim.com/wp-content/uploads/san-diego-pictures/balboa-park/organ-pavilion.JPG

Free concerts every Sunday at 2 PM, all year long. They let you upstairs to look at the innards after each show, too.

[HUGH]

Now then, what's the longest pipe you can fit in your home? I think 64ft is a bit awkward, settle for a 32ft pipe but how much air power to drive it? Would the neighbours like it?

[N2NH]

I grew up in a church with an organ that was too big for it. They couldn't hit the lowest notes on it without the building threatening to come down at Corpus Christi. A couple of times they got a bit too low and plaster dust fell from the ceiling.

Love the two previous vids. Here's one I've always liked...

http://youtu.be/ho9rZjlsyYY


http://youtu.be/ho9rZjlsyYY

From my old parish church alink to their organ here - scroll down (http://www.nycago.org/Organs/NYC/html/CorpusChristi.html)

[kb2vxa]

Ah, looks like I stirred some highbrows into voicing their diapasons. Hmmm, I'm curious just how that outdoor organ at San Diego sounds since a lot depends on the acoustics of the hall. Kinda dead I suppose with no sound wash, (ambiance) no walls. Hmmm, Toccata and Fugue in D minor is one I haven't heard since my vinyl (and tapes) got lost in a flood decades ago. Trouble with You Tube is they don't give any particulars like which organ, which organist and when was it recorded? E. Power Biggs, one of the kings and certainly Biggs Power.

Pipes to Hammonds? Now is this a Hammond or a Farfisa? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-3RgtXAwS0 It brings back memories of some guest DJ work at area radio stations (not the big boys, sorry) and after editing out the vocals labled the tape "some creepy music" and used it occasionally for background voice over work. I still have a few intros kicking around, here's one that may remind you of WKRP's midnight jock, Venus Flytrap.

[KC2KFC]

I've been playing theatre organ since I was 13. Started at the Riviera Theatre in North Tonawanda, NY. It's evolved over the years, but about 3 years ago Clark Wilson did a complete tonal finishing of it and it is now a tremendous sounding instrument. I've also played the Shea's Buffalo 4/28 Wurlitzer and that is quite an instrument. Sadly it is not used very often except for the occasional silent film. I'm still involved at the "Riv" mostly tuning it for their organ series in the spring and fall. It's always nice to run into fellow theatre organ enthusiasts.

[NQ6U]

Hmmm, I'm curious just how that outdoor organ at San Diego sounds since a lot depends on the acoustics of the hall. Kinda dead I suppose with no sound wash, (ambiance) no walls.

Yes, that's true to some extent. However, they make up for a lot with the sheer volume of the thing—the low notes will make your pants flap.

[n2ize]

When I was a kid growing up in a small farming town in Northern Austria the church was small and the pipe organ so large that they literally had the longest pipes sticking through the roof. One night strong winds caused the pipe to begin vibration with such intensity that part of the church literally collapsed.

[K7SGJ]

Yes, that's true to some extent. However, they make up for a lot with the sheer volume of the thing—the low notes will make your pants flap.

So will a good old fashioned popcorn fart.

[WØTKX]

Well, from Toots back to Music.

Here is something wonderfully weird...

http://youtu.be/3eK1_jVSF5Q


http://youtu.be/3eK1_jVSF5Q

[K7SGJ]

Well, from Toots back to Music.

Here is something wonderfully weird...

http://youtu.be/3eK1_jVSF5Q


http://youtu.be/3eK1_jVSF5Q


Great find. That is just too cool.

[W7XF]

Well, from Toots back to Music.

Here is something wonderfully weird...

http://youtu.be/3eK1_jVSF5Q



http://youtu.be/3eK1_jVSF5Q

TOOBS!! Beautiful TOOBS!!!! Wonderful TOOBS!!!

[kb2vxa]

Wonderfully weird, crappy sounding lo fi (a reviewer at the show said it gave him ear bleed) using standard Conn fake pipe speakers driven by a Bogen PA amp instead of a Conn amp designed for the job. It reminds me of the bank of 6X9 car radio speakers I used before I built my first reflex cabinets with 8" Quam woofers and Phillips dome mylar tweeters. Passable for a 1956 Buick Sonomatic radio I suppose. (;->) Now here's a Conn 652 with MIDI as nature intended.
http://parttimeaudiophile.com/2012/07/19/best-sound-at-capital-audiofest/

Oh no, some pictures bring tears to my eyes and when I went poking around the Bogen PA amps I found one near and dear. Remember me sometimes mentioning a certain pirate AM radio station from the 60s that died a horrible death in 71? I found the Challenger I reworked into a peak limiter, meters and all.

[WØTKX]

Right on. Phil Spector's Wall of Sound had it's limits too. But it was an amusing YouTube find, eh?

Well, anyway. Here's Bernie Worrell (The Woo), funking it up with some talented youngsters. :yes:

Righteous!

http://youtu.be/pjQObC1tTV8


http://youtu.be/pjQObC1tTV8

[kb2vxa]

Give her some funked up music, she treats you nice
Feed her some hungry reggae, she'll love you twice
The girls don't seem to care, tonight
As long as the mood is right
FM - no static at all

Dayum, that cat with the hat plays a mean bass! Eh, I wouldn't say Spectorsound had its limits as much as the primary outlet for the Philly Sound, AM radio. A stereo recording played on a good sound system truly was a wall of sound. To maximize the effect you need a third speaker, just midrange will do, but it's all in how you wire it up. Connect it between the L+ and R+ terminals so it extracts the DIFFERENCE signal rather than the sum which would be mono. In other words the L-R+R-L rather than R+L. Normally the speaker would be placed behind the listener for ambiance but in front between the L & R speakers at about twice normal separation you have a true wall of sound. Just don't wave your gun around at recording sessions, Ronnie is getting a little worried.

Speaking of a mean bass... TURN IT UP! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBBys5TLxCI

"But it was an amusing YouTube find, eh?"
Too bad You Tube wasn't around when I went to the New York Hi Fi Show in 1964, we didn't even have The Groove Tube for another 10 years. That was a pivotal year for music, recording and broadcasting, the year that introduced the Sony SQ quadrophonic stereo system, Quadrophenia and pioneer broadcaster WDHA-FM in Morristown, NJ with transmitter in Mine Hill. I met the station bigwigs and engineer and got the introductory propaganda package but not too terribly impressed I kept my thoughts to myself. Do you remember how long quadrophonic lasted? I do, just long enough to tease huge investments in "the future of the industry" and then the roof fell in. Interestingly enough the engineers didn't realize how difficult it was to recover a 100KHz pilot tone from a disc or tape when most cartridges and heads could barely nudge 20KHz. (;->)

Live at Forge Recording, a TriTronix Production? How about Live at PowZap Studios, a Bustaneardrum production? Ah, those wonderful days in the prod room of a secret underground radio station with only its little antenna sticking out...........

[suddenseer]

I like 'em all. From pipes to the Hammonds. And now, some organ "Power".

http://youtu.be/bxsCY-bipg0


http://youtu.be/bxsCY-bipg0Meh, E.P Biggs made some good records. I like the one his naughty train robber nephew made with the Sex Pistols.

NSFW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk1osVnYt0s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk1osVnYt0s

[kb2vxa]

It's hard to imagine the nephew of one of the Biggsest organists in the world was one of the 15 in the Great Train Robbery of 1963 and recorded with the Saix Pistows, aow'd 'at 'appen? Oh I know how to spell, that's a London accent.

Something puzzling me, Neil Young and Crazy Horse's album Rust Never Sleeps features two songs (first My My Hey Hey and last Hey Hey My My) as a tribute to Johnny Rotten; out of the blue and into the black. Seems that describes Sid Vicious who came out of the blue to replace Glen Matlock in 1977 and went into the black of a heroin overdose in 1979.

[WØTKX]

Yea. Neil Young is freaking weird, and wonderful. His recent interview on NPR with Terry Gross was really interesting.

His new album is really good, it sort of time warps through all his various "sounds" over the years. Psychedelic Pill, indeed.

http://youtu.be/Yq76PDY0ymg


http://youtu.be/Yq76PDY0ymg

[N2NH]

The Mighty Wurlitzer at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus is used at their basketball games. This is what it looks like. (http://www.nytos.org/liu.html)

http://www.nytos.org/images/liularge.jpg


For the past two decades, Joe Amato, a professional musician and retired New York City police detective, has had privileged access to one of Brooklyn’s hidden historic treasures. Mr. Amato is curator of a “Mighty Wurlitzer” theater pipe organ that has been owned by Long Island University since the 1950s. The organ came to the university when LIU bought the Brooklyn Paramount Theater (where the Wurlitzer had been installed in 1928) and made it the centerpiece of what has become the LIU Brooklyn campus. LIU’s Mighty Wurlitzer is one of only two theater organs still in use in New York City. The other is at Radio City Music Hall.

Since the 1960s, crews of volunteers from the New York Theatre Organ Society (NYTOS) have lavished time, care, and affection on the instrument, including its “blower,” which is half the size of a passenger-jet engine and forces air through the organ’s myriad pipes to produce the booming resonance of its “mighty” sound.

The story of the organ here. (http://www.brooklynrail.org/2012/10/local/a-relic-reborn#)


http://youtu.be/_PygQbt2ios

[WØTKX]

Well, back to the organ music. I'm really into the chops by this guy, I've only seen him live once, he was fantastic!

Jeebus Warren, we'd go nuts playing our music collection back and forth at each other, eh?

I'd enjoy the hell out of it. Imagine that. Here's some more. Your turn.

http://youtu.be/PtWQp6loAbk


http://youtu.be/PtWQp6loAbk

[suddenseer]

It's hard to imagine the nephew of one of the Biggsest organists in the world was one of the 15 in the Great Train Robbery of 1963 and recorded with the Saix Pistows, aow'd 'at 'appen? Oh I know how to spell, that's a London accent.

Something puzzling me, Neil Young and Crazy Horse's album Rust Never Sleeps features two songs (first My My Hey Hey and last Hey Hey My My) as a tribute to Johnny Rotten; out of the blue and into the black. Seems that describes Sid Vicious who came out of the blue to replace Glen Matlock in 1977 and went into the black of a heroin overdose in 1979.Rust Never Sleeps was the tagline from a rustoleum commercial that used Devo to make the song, and commercial only played in the Cleveland market. . Neil Young attributed (incorrectly) Devo's inspiration of a general punk movement. Devo was an art project that went wild all about devolution. The band members where mostly Kent State students during the murders of 4 KSU students. They observed that we are indeed devolving, not evolving.

[kb2vxa]

Maybe the Devo commercial was Cleveland, that's why I never heard of it while the Rustoleum tag line "rust never sleeps" was national. Yeah, Devo-lution was a rather sick new wave band (must have missed the old wave) and those famous hats were actually microwave lenses to go with the hazmat suits. I still don't see what any of this has to do with Neil Yuck, under the bushy eyebrows was CM "Mugsy" Calam.