Brilliant videos !, an excellent combination of discussion, chat and music. Many thanks for the English version, long time since I studied German at school.
JJ Binns organs were made in Leeds, the city where I live , and there were many around , they were known for their wonderful tonal qualities and reliability. Binns never achieved the fame of Willis or Harrison , but his instruments were wonderful all the same .
I came across a good few Battleship Binns over the years - none of them were in any way bad. Wonderful to play - even after years of negligence in bankrupt parishes. You can’t say the same for ANY other organ builder. Shame he didn’t quite make it into the big league.
Actually made in Bramley which, at that time, was a very independent village on the outskirts of Leeds. Binns was particularly known for his patent tubular pneumatic system of connecting the action with the pipes (as opposed to tracker action and electric systems). At one time there were 4 or 5 organ builders in Bramley, as well as FJ Rogers organ pipe manufacturers (now closed) on Back Lane near Bramley Town End. Formerly owned by the Buckle family, one of its former employees started Shires Organ Pipe works in Bramley, continuing the long tradition.
@@grahamthorne4146 Now there's something rare in a full-size pipe organ... I've seen old fairground organs with this setup because of the 'piano roll' to control the action, but never on an actual pipe organ. I'm guessing when this was refurbished, it was probably converted to MIDI operated relays/solenoids, which is pretty much trouble free, and greatly reduces the bulk of cables/tubes/etc going to the console, thus making it easily mobile in relation to the pipe chest.😉
Another good video. Wonderful tones. Good explanation of how the swell division works. People don't realize organs do not have volume control. Same set pressure. "Pulling out the stops", opening swell, make the awesome sound of the instruments.
Thank you for doing this! Please keep this "English version" idea going. One thing to keep in mind, I found towards the start of the video, in the voice over, your P's, B's, T's ETC. sounds where there's a "puff" of air, were quite strong, and with my good quality headphones, very much like someone tapping on a microphone very hard. Try moving your mic a bit further from your mouth, or not putting so much force behind those letters. Small matter, I'll admit. HAHA. Thanks again for this!
Just attended a seminar on organs (physical properties and other basics) which was sooo dry and boring. Quite unfortunate. Appreciate your entertaining education and information even more now. Thank you for the English version and your inspiring videos!
It’s great watching the German versions to improve my understanding of the language as well later watching the English to fill in any gaps that I have missed.
Possibly a daft question, as I know nothing at all about organs, apart from what I've learnt from your rather splendid videos, but why is it necessary to 'protect' (if that's the right word) certain parts of the organ with a key switch? Thank you for posting your wonderful videos, I find them absolutely fascinating, and enjoy your presentations. As a young man (too many years ago!) I visited Buckfast Abbey in Devon during an organ practise. The sound was incredible and, when they hit a low not with a higher one, the heterodyne effect was felt rather than heard. Fantastic! My very best wishes for the future, and thanks again!
@@FraserGartshore Understood, and thank you for the explanation. Dramatic indeed! But why a key and not just an ordinary switch? I'm fascinated by the workings of an organ, and enjoy the CZcams videos showing the insides of the pipe chambers, blowers and electrical systems between the console and wind chests. A bit of an 'anorak', really :-) You are indeed a gifted gentleman!
Thanks Peter! Like I say, the key just adds a bit of occasion! I know quite a few instruments with that feature - some organists like to pretend it’s to keep inexperienced fingers away from the loud stuff. I just think it’s a case of “boys with toys”! Much like a red starter button in a family car.
@@FraserGartshore Perfectly explained! Thank you so much! I love the sound of theatre organs as well as church organs, and sometimes listen to 'The Organist Entertains' on BBC Radio 2. The thought, ingenuity, design, and work that goes into all organs never fails to amaze me! My very Best Wishes for your future success!
Battleship Binns as he was known, a truly outstanding builder. One of my absolute favourites. I have a copy of his 3 stage tubular pneumatic action if you are interested? I can send it to you if you like!
Sir Fraser Maxwell Gartshore? By the way (1): the royal family has been naturalized long time ago. They are no more german nationals anyway and cannot even apply for citizenship if they wanted, since that requrires a grandfather oder grandmother of german nationality. By the way (2): your English is far, far above what one can expect in Germany!
Thank you - that may of course have something to do with the fact that I am actually British... I’ve only been here for 20 years!😂 as for (1) - not so sure - they officially don’t even have passports - George V only changed their names a hundred years ago!🙈
@@FraserGartshore ok, i listened to the german version in the meantime and realized a little accent. But you learnt german so perfectly that i did never take notice of it before! Well, no passports? Let me say, though i am neither english nor a monarchist, i would say: it somehow would sound strange if a monarch had a passport. Monarchy basically was the idea, that subjects (!) belong to a monarch like his property. From that point of view, the monarch issues them passports so they can prove to be his property. He is the one to issue, not the one to be issued, which would made him the subject of his subjects :)
A wonderful demo. Many thanks for the English dubbing... much appreciated. Wish you'd shown the Pedal division stops though. It seems that an organ of this grandeur should have a nice, big 32' Reed, n'est-ce pas? (I did look at the link for the stoplist, and there is only a resultant 32').
First 32 into any moderately large English organ is always a full-length open flue of wood or metal construction, occasionally using a resultant for the bottom few notes if height does not permit open pipes all the way to CCCC. A reed is easier to package as it can be mitred or use half-length resonators (although the latter is rarely successful - the modern half-length Harrison 32ft reed at Exeter Cathedral is a horror), but is generally only added when a 32ft flue is already present - whereas in America it seems to be quite common to have a full-length 32ft Bombarde but only a stopped Bourdon by way of a 32ft flue.
I think you are a quite pleasant and engaging entertainer and educator, Fraser! I am happy to not have to strain my weak abilities in German with this English presentation. Here is another "tour" of an organ I had found several years ago: soundcloud.com/joe-peterzak/1962-high-pressure-20-organ I hope you find it interesting!
A nice English sound, Binns built some very nice instruments. Sorry to have a downer, but the stop layout is so cheap looking, a flat board with rows of black on and off rocker switches, ugh! If it were an English organ it should have had an English style drawer stop console, if the organ builder spent time with Harrison and Harrison he couldn't have looked in their console shop, world renowned as they are for their beautiful consoles.
Binns consoles are lovely too! St Bartholomew Armley (Schulze/Brindley & Foster with Binns console and action), Rochdale Town Hall, and there's another one in a redundant church in Shrewsbury...
Richard Harrold I will take your word for this, especially as most English organ builders of any repute made pretty good drawerstop consoles in that period. It wasn't until the late fifties and sixties that the penchant for tab stop and rocker stop consoles became more fashionable and Much Cheaper to make than drawerstop consoles, especially if they had combination pistons meaning they had to have on/ off magnetic solenoids to work the drawerstops which were very expensive compared to the solenoids of the tabstop / rocker type
@@samrodian919 true, but the 4-decker Binnses are exceptionally beautiful, with ornate Gothic tracery on the stop-jambs. BTW, stop-tab consoles have been around since 1887 (Hope-Jones, St John's Birkenhead) and became increasingly popular through the 1930s. A good one can look quite nice. There's also the wondrous Compton backlit stop-button type...
Richard Harrold yes but as an ex organ builder who started his apprenticeship in 1970 drawerstop consoles were "de regurre" (I think it is spelt lol) especially on new mechanical instruments. The Compton back lit buttons were a pain to replace bulbs and were were always doing it at the i think BBC Maida Vale studios I was told. ( I Only went there as a tuners boy once) the only stop tab consoles I liked were the rocker type of The organ builder Robert Spurden Rutt of Leytonstone London nice little red, white green lights in the centre to denote on or off. If I remember correctly Red for reeds ,white for flues and green for couplers. There is one of these consoles( or was) in the chapel of Barnardos the children's charity headquarters in Barkingside Ilford Essex. I have never seen a 4 decker Binns console but I take your word for it that they were nice. I remember as an apprentice seeing the inner jambs of a London cathedral organ being made for its new console and much later seeing the finished sumptuous console. It don't get better than that! Lol
I agree, but this organ is now in Germany and rebuilt for the use and preferences of its new owners which is important.Even more important is the fact that this organ has found a new lease of life and is being enjoyed!
The pipe organ is not the Queen of the musical instruments It's the King of the Musical Instruments. Due to the organ has a wider range of pitch than the piano. The organ could go lower to C-1(64ft) and higher could go to C10 & the organ could combined every different voices to each division of the manual playing a 3 role with hand and feet to performs a one man orchestra that the piano can't. The piano is just the President of musical instruments.
Very enjoyable. I love your playful presenting style. Thanks for making in English too!
You don't need to apologize for the dubbed audio, everything was perfect! Thank you so much / vielen Dank! :)
Heh heh, just found the English version of this. The voice overlay worked great. Thanks Fraser!!😁👍
Brilliant videos !, an excellent combination of discussion, chat and music. Many thanks for the English version, long time since I studied German at school.
Delightful stuff, and kudos for doing this in two languages.
Youi Played our National Anthem with real feeling. It brought a tear to my eye. Then again I'm a Royalist. Your a wonderful player
Still watching the german versions also to learn the german language, greetings from Belgium the flemish part :)
A nicely reverberant room matched with a great instrument. Very fine all the way around.
Absolutely! The voicing on this instrument was very well done! Love it.😍
JJ Binns organs were made in Leeds, the city where I live , and there were many around , they were known for their wonderful tonal qualities and reliability. Binns never achieved the fame of Willis or Harrison , but his instruments were wonderful all the same .
I came across a good few Battleship Binns over the years - none of them were in any way bad. Wonderful to play - even after years of negligence in bankrupt parishes. You can’t say the same for ANY other organ builder. Shame he didn’t quite make it into the big league.
Actually made in Bramley which, at that time, was a very independent village on the outskirts of Leeds. Binns was particularly known for his patent tubular pneumatic system of connecting the action with the pipes (as opposed to tracker action and electric systems). At one time there were 4 or 5 organ builders in Bramley, as well as FJ Rogers organ pipe manufacturers (now closed) on Back Lane near Bramley Town End. Formerly owned by the Buckle family, one of its former employees started Shires Organ Pipe works in Bramley, continuing the long tradition.
@@grahamthorne4146 Now there's something rare in a full-size pipe organ... I've seen old fairground organs with this setup because of the 'piano roll' to control the action, but never on an actual pipe organ. I'm guessing when this was refurbished, it was probably converted to MIDI operated relays/solenoids, which is pretty much trouble free, and greatly reduces the bulk of cables/tubes/etc going to the console, thus making it easily mobile in relation to the pipe chest.😉
Another good video. Wonderful tones. Good explanation of how the swell division works. People don't realize organs do not have volume control. Same set pressure. "Pulling out the stops", opening swell, make the awesome sound of the instruments.
Thank you for doing this! Please keep this "English version" idea going. One thing to keep in mind, I found towards the start of the video, in the voice over, your P's, B's, T's ETC. sounds where there's a "puff" of air, were quite strong, and with my good quality headphones, very much like someone tapping on a microphone very hard. Try moving your mic a bit further from your mouth, or not putting so much force behind those letters. Small matter, I'll admit. HAHA. Thanks again for this!
Just attended a seminar on organs (physical properties and other basics) which was sooo dry and boring. Quite unfortunate. Appreciate your entertaining education and information even more now. Thank you for the English version and your inspiring videos!
It’s great watching the German versions to improve my understanding of the language as well later watching the English to fill in any gaps that I have missed.
Love that sound. The pipe organ sound is majestic to say the least.👍👍
Loved the Händel!
An enjoyable presentation and workshop !!
Danke für hochladen diese Video! Es hilft mir wirklich, mein armes Deutsch zu verbessen!
Danke! Learning German isn’t that bad - it’s all rules and hardly any exceptions... 🙈
Possibly a daft question, as I know nothing at all about organs, apart from what I've learnt from your rather splendid videos, but why is it necessary to 'protect' (if that's the right word) certain parts of the organ with a key switch?
Thank you for posting your wonderful videos, I find them absolutely fascinating, and enjoy your presentations. As a young man (too many years ago!) I visited Buckfast Abbey in Devon during an organ practise. The sound was incredible and, when they hit a low not with a higher one, the heterodyne effect was felt rather than heard. Fantastic!
My very best wishes for the future, and thanks again!
The key is only there to switch on the extra blower for the tuba stop! It adds a bit of drama to the occasion!
@@FraserGartshore Understood, and thank you for the explanation. Dramatic indeed! But why a key and not just an ordinary switch? I'm fascinated by the workings of an organ, and enjoy the CZcams videos showing the insides of the pipe chambers, blowers and electrical systems between the console and wind chests. A bit of an 'anorak', really :-)
You are indeed a gifted gentleman!
Thanks Peter! Like I say, the key just adds a bit of occasion! I know quite a few instruments with that feature - some organists like to pretend it’s to keep inexperienced fingers away from the loud stuff. I just think it’s a case of “boys with toys”! Much like a red starter button in a family car.
@@FraserGartshore Perfectly explained! Thank you so much! I love the sound of theatre organs as well as church organs, and sometimes listen to 'The Organist Entertains' on BBC Radio 2. The thought, ingenuity, design, and work that goes into all organs never fails to amaze me!
My very Best Wishes for your future success!
Phantastisch, informativ und für mich als Piano-Dilettant, ein Ausblick in eine ganz andere Welt der Tasteninstrumente.
I Listened to this again and all I can say Pure Bliss. The Queen and Handel I ask you what more would you want.
Egal wenn es auf deutsch oder auf englisch läuft, ist die Info da!!!
Battleship Binns as he was known, a truly outstanding builder. One of my absolute favourites. I have a copy of his 3 stage tubular pneumatic action if you are interested? I can send it to you if you like!
Nicht schlecht, erinnert mich ein bisschen an die amerikanischen Fernsehsendungen mit deutscher Synchronisation. ^^ ;D
Wollte gerade genau das gleiche schreiben. 😂 Toll gemacht!
Sir Fraser Maxwell Gartshore?
By the way (1): the royal family has been naturalized long time ago. They are no more german nationals anyway and cannot even apply for citizenship if they wanted, since that requrires a grandfather oder grandmother of german nationality. By the way (2): your English is far, far above what one can expect in Germany!
Thank you - that may of course have something to do with the fact that I am actually British... I’ve only been here for 20 years!😂 as for (1) - not so sure - they officially don’t even have passports - George V only changed their names a hundred years ago!🙈
@@FraserGartshore ok, i listened to the german version in the meantime and realized a little accent. But you learnt german so perfectly that i did never take notice of it before! Well, no passports? Let me say, though i am neither english nor a monarchist, i would say: it somehow would sound strange if a monarch had a passport. Monarchy basically was the idea, that subjects (!) belong to a monarch like his property. From that point of view, the monarch issues them passports so they can prove to be his property. He is the one to issue, not the one to be issued, which would made him the subject of his subjects :)
10:34 - I've seen the "stopped flute" referred to as "chiff" on a 1977 Allen organ.
David Perkins chiff is the little attack sound on flue pipes
Terrific - new professional jargon, I Iike that.
A wonderful demo. Many thanks for the English dubbing... much appreciated. Wish you'd shown the Pedal division stops though. It seems that an organ of this grandeur should have a nice, big 32' Reed, n'est-ce pas? (I did look at the link for the stoplist, and there is only a resultant 32').
First 32 into any moderately large English organ is always a full-length open flue of wood or metal construction, occasionally using a resultant for the bottom few notes if height does not permit open pipes all the way to CCCC. A reed is easier to package as it can be mitred or use half-length resonators (although the latter is rarely successful - the modern half-length Harrison 32ft reed at Exeter Cathedral is a horror), but is generally only added when a 32ft flue is already present - whereas in America it seems to be quite common to have a full-length 32ft Bombarde but only a stopped Bourdon by way of a 32ft flue.
Can you play more music played on the Last Night of the Proms?
I know Oliver too.
Finally I can understand! Are you British? You are super nice!
Scots, fae Inverness!
Well done!!
Lovely video as always! can you please tell me what tune is that on the 18:01 minutes?
It's Trumpet Tune by Henry Purcell. A lovely piece of music!
Love the vid, truly love Organs, but I have to stop you there sorry :/ Big Ben is the bell, not the tower :x
I think for the purposes of international entertainment, we can just ignore that for now! Bells or towers, no one cares really!😂
@@FraserGartshore Fair nuff :3
I think you are a quite pleasant and engaging entertainer and educator, Fraser! I am happy to not have to strain my weak abilities in German with this English presentation.
Here is another "tour" of an organ I had found several years ago:
soundcloud.com/joe-peterzak/1962-high-pressure-20-organ
I hope you find it interesting!
What’s the song at the end
A nice English sound, Binns built some very nice instruments. Sorry to have a downer, but the stop layout is so cheap looking, a flat board with rows of black on and off rocker switches, ugh! If it were an English organ it should have had an English style drawer stop console, if the organ builder spent time with Harrison and Harrison he couldn't have looked in their console shop, world renowned as they are for their beautiful consoles.
Binns consoles are lovely too! St Bartholomew Armley (Schulze/Brindley & Foster with Binns console and action), Rochdale Town Hall, and there's another one in a redundant church in Shrewsbury...
Richard Harrold I will take your word for this, especially as most English organ builders of any repute made pretty good drawerstop consoles in that period. It wasn't until the late fifties and sixties that the penchant for tab stop and rocker stop consoles became more fashionable and Much Cheaper to make than drawerstop consoles, especially if they had combination pistons meaning they had to have on/ off magnetic solenoids to work the drawerstops which were very expensive compared to the solenoids of the tabstop / rocker type
@@samrodian919 true, but the 4-decker Binnses are exceptionally beautiful, with ornate Gothic tracery on the stop-jambs. BTW, stop-tab consoles have been around since 1887 (Hope-Jones, St John's Birkenhead) and became increasingly popular through the 1930s. A good one can look quite nice. There's also the wondrous Compton backlit stop-button type...
Richard Harrold yes but as an ex organ builder who started his apprenticeship in 1970 drawerstop consoles were "de regurre" (I think it is spelt lol) especially on new mechanical instruments. The Compton back lit buttons were a pain to replace bulbs and were were always doing it at the i think BBC Maida Vale studios I was told. ( I Only went there as a tuners boy once) the only stop tab consoles I liked were the rocker type of The organ builder Robert Spurden Rutt of Leytonstone London nice little red, white green lights in the centre to denote on or off. If I remember correctly Red for reeds ,white for flues and green for couplers. There is one of these consoles( or was) in the chapel of Barnardos the children's charity headquarters in Barkingside Ilford Essex. I have never seen a 4 decker Binns console but I take your word for it that they were nice. I remember as an apprentice seeing the inner jambs of a
London cathedral organ being made for its new console and much later seeing the finished sumptuous console. It don't get better than that! Lol
I agree, but this organ is now in Germany and rebuilt for the use and preferences of its new owners which is important.Even more important is the fact that this organ has found a new lease of life and is being enjoyed!
The pipe organ is not the Queen of the musical instruments It's the King of the Musical Instruments. Due to the organ has a wider range of pitch than the piano. The organ could go lower to C-1(64ft) and higher could go to C10 & the organ could combined every different voices to each division of the manual playing a 3 role with hand and feet to performs a one man orchestra that the piano can't. The piano is just the President of musical instruments.
Why is there a key for there tuba stop?
To power up a separate motor
Fraser Gartshore oh. I thought maybe it was locked out to keep unauthorized people from using it and having too much fun.
I wondered if it was a MIDI stop. Is it digital or acoustic?
Are you from the clam Gartshore or it's your real name?
Yes, I’m a real Gartshore!
Is the Tea Tetley? ;)
PG Tips!
@@FraserGartshore Heresy! Has to be Yorkshire all the way!
Perhaps English organs are better than German organs. And it is English not British a big difference.
Auch in Englisch ist das Video interessant xD