r/organ

It's pretty surreal that after I suddenly became obsessed with organs, I went to my church on this specific day at this specific hour, and got to meet and hear an international star who happened to pass by in my random town located in the middle of nowhere. He was super talented and extremely sweet, and he even let me play!

Although I sucked ass, it was a very fun and memorable experience. I'm very grateful to him and I really wanna learn now... perhaps this meeting was a sign of destiny?

A big magnificient organ in Saint-Louis church, in Grenoble, France. It was built by Formentelli, as a mix of German, French and Italian classic style. It even has a récit expressif !

63 stops and three keyboards. You can distinguish all of its sections by looking at it : the pedale's tourelles on the side, the positif de dos at the front, and the récit sitting on the grand orgue in the middle part.

The great pipes you see are chanoines, they are completely mute and do not play. As they are mainly made of tin and not lead (to make them shinier), you can see them being crushed under their own weight.

It is very pleasant to play this organ, the french reeds sound like thunder, the principals are very german-like with a sharp attack and the mixtures are sharp, but mellowed by the church acoustics and the fact that they go right over your head and are not directed toward you !

I'm playing a choral prelude(Elias Oechsler, link below) and there are several "Th." in the score. According to search it might have to do with coupler or division, but given that hint I still don't know what they're telling me to do.

Also, this one has many collisions (a long note being interrupted by another note of the same pitch). Am I missing something here?

IMSLP 654071: IMSLP654071-PMLP1048929-oechsler3.pdf

Hello all, I apologize if this isn’t the right place to ask my question. If not, can anyone point me to right subreddit?

This was my grandparents and up in my dad’s attic. I never met them so I have no background information on what I think is a mini chord organ. I’ve tried searching (with words and images) but am not finding this specific one. I also am not really sure the words to use. Does anyone know what the details of this model is and what it’s worth?

I am not musical and am moving so would like to sell it.

I'm not an organist, but I'm playing with Organteq. I might try to compose something for it. I also improvise in Baroque counterpoint, testing different stops. I have one MIDI controller so I play one manual at a time.

I've noticed there's a pretty large imbalance in brilliance and presence of the notes from low to high. If I play two part counterpoint, almost no matter what stops I'm using, the left hand is not as audible as the right hand. If there are chords in the right hand, the left hand might be totally inaudible.

I found a way to demonstrate this clearly. If I select 8 foot stops only, let's say in the Great, the higher notes have a lot of "presence," and the lowest notes are basically inaudible.

Is this normal for a real pipe organ? It really messes with simple compositions like two voices. The bass line is so important.

I've also heard YouTube recordings that sound disappointing due to lack of "impact" of the lower notes:

https://youtu.be/mKgrFxqCdD8

Are there other virtual organs that improve on this? I haven't tried GrandOrgue yet, but I hear good things, but too bad it's not a VST.