Cathedral Jazz! (They Say It Can't Be Done!) 🇬🇧 | Hauptwerk Nancy
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- Who says it can't be done - today I play a bit of Jazzy Blues on the amazing Cavaillé-Coll organ of Nancy Cathedral - maybe not the original organ, but the Hauptwerk sample set version of this amazing instrument!
Before that, I introduce you to the console itself, some of its hidden features and why I built it the way it is.
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Bravo 👏👏👏 thanks for the info on the console!... Loved the registration and balance achieved between the divisions :)
You know this reminds me of a story I was told. When I was younger my father was a Keyboardist in a jazz group. They had trouble finding venues and one time they performed at a large church. My father being the wonderful man he is forgot his keyboard. So during rehearsal, the Church's organist came in, the organist said "I don't know if it would help but here is the key to the organ I doubt you can do much with it." My father being the stubborn man he is took the key to the organ then instead of having my mother bring his keyboard performed on the church's organ. After the concert, the organist told my father he is always welcome to come back to play the organ if he wanted and my father has taken him up a few times on the offer and the two have become close friends.
Great insight Fraser. One of the joys of the community of Hauptwerk organists is the variety of approaches to console design. Your logic of what works for you is clear. But also Richard McVeigh’s logic for recreating the console of York Minster is equally clear. It’s a balance of practicality versus full immersion and we all sit in slightly different places on that continuum (maybe dictated by affordability). Anyway, have got my decent headphones on to listen to the blues, and looking forward to all the content to come!
All seems to be going well Fraser which really pleases me. I knew you could make this work! Well done oh and enjoy your tea
Amazing sounds coming over my headphones, thank you.👍👍🇨🇦
If you can't do it, Fraser, nobody can! Bravo! Wonderful chat and music as ever!
Absolutely fantastic!! Thanks for sharing your philosophy and a bit of behind the scenes. This is just great. And who would have thought - blues on a cavaille coll. My goodness you make it sound epic!! Bravo!!!!!
Hello. Grace Cathedral in San Francisco has had a Jazz Evensong on Easter Sunday for over 40 years. Everyone processes out on the organ playing a Dixie/New Orleans version of 'When The Saints Go Marching In.' So Jazz can be played on a Cathedral organ.
Sounding good Frazer, look forward to more videos. Cheers from the UK.
Greeting Fraser
I was so surprised that this “older chap” 😆 was mentioned. - I am glad that you found my comment interesting. I am not sure that this add on device is still available - but I sure love mine. Setting up registrations to be captured is much easier than using a mouse or track pad. Thanks again for sharing your wonderful talent with us all,
Magnifico Fraser Gartshore!!!!👏👏👏
It is the best hybrid organ ever.Amazing 100% Ultra Realistic.
That was Great, thank you so much !
Fantastic playing and sounds great !
OMG! Sacré blue! Aristide (if not the other countless builders!) is 'twerking' down the aisle in ecstasy hearing the Blues on this instrument! "Mais Oui, bébé!" FABULOUS! The reverb at the end . . .
I was nodding in agreement with everything you said in the chat. A draw stop console for Hauptwerk does seem to be an unnecessary expense for all the reasons you outlined . . . unless you just want it to feel closer to a 'real' organ and maybe as a rather fine piece of furniture! (The Memsahib was right to make you go for your sleek, minimalist, high-tech black manuals and other 'soft furnishings' to match: class!)
Although you are keeping it a trade secret, your 'sound mix' succeeds in vastly reducing the muddiness you can experience in such a large acoustic. I am stunned by your registration of this magnificent marvel of Blues. I can guess you spent quite some time programming the stepper and, of course, you make it look effortless. But that is what a top performance is all about; the preparation and graft to deliver perfection to the audience without them seeing the sweat. As that wonderful Cole Porter song states (and yes please, some CP on any organ!):
But if this ditty is not so pretty
At least it'll tell you
How great you are
You're the top!
Nancy is certainly a remarkable organ. As you remark, it is not a thorough-bred 'A C-C' . . . though any organ he has tinkered with must be better for his loving attention! I do think Piotr Grabowski has to be congratulated for the technical accomplishment achieved in capturing these sounds in his sample set. I don't have enough GB of RAM to do the instrument justice. There will be those Hauptwerk devotees who will want 256 GB of RAM . . . and we'll probably need it in the near future as the demand for ever greater realism is clearly exponential.
Meanwhile the only thing I can't get enough of, Fraser, is you, playing (all styles and, chatting, of course!). More content please. Encore. 41.2k subscribers need a lot of satisfying!
Love the stealth look of the console.
There you go, jazz on a pipe organ; I have always liked jazz, but never tried to play it on my hauptwerk organ; you have inspired me to try a little jazz; I don't have any jazz music, so will have to try my own composition.
Did you say Hammond? Oh, my …
In the netherlands you hardly have organs with a ‘setzer’ system. Most are just mechanical stops you have to manually pull. Some 20 century (mostly electro pneumatic) organs will have free combinations like your church organ has. So I never worked with a programmable system. I can imagine it would be nice if you can program your registrations for a piece at home and then plug it into an organ :)
Jazz organ haters: You can’t play jazz on classical pipes?!?! Barbara Dennerlein: hold my beer!!! 😆
The mouse vs. touchscreen question comes down to playing style. You seem to love using the built in stepper for your repertoire, which works perfectly for most prepared pieces. Like you mentioned, if you’re a bit more interested in improvisation, or if this organ was being used in a liturgical setting, you’d want to have individual touch control of the stops. (I know you have an almost infinite number of steppers, but you’d be amazed at how many combos a little hand registration here and there saves!) However, I will say adding another monitor lets you see the stops larger than on the console view. (A helpful feature for the largest samplesets.)
Fraser from the present goes back in time to tell his past selves about this fantastic organ, Fraser from 10 years ago gets excited; 20 years ago laughs hysterically at the total impossibility; 30 years ago, calls the local asylum to have his future self locked up.
If you were to get a touch screen, would you want to get multiple, on either side to emulate a real console, or just stick with the one?
Use Piotr's Friesach sample set to play "Rubber Duckie, You're the one" using the Trompette en Chamade please!
😂😂😂
😄It's becoming expensive to watch you: Giving up my Ahlborne modules for Hauptwerk advanced $599, 32 gig additional ram $150, touch screen monitor $300, convincing me I need a 4th keyboard $??, loving and wanting every sample set you play $?? Whats next, trips to Germany so I can learn to pay this thing I'm buiding?😅 Seriously, I love and am inspired by all your videos.
Yes, it can be done of course but it doesn’t mean that it suits the instrument/voicing. The piano, Fender Rhodes or Hammond organ suits jazz so much better, in the same way that a Les Paul guitar and Marshall amp does heavy rock better than a banjo. Love the Hauptwerk setup - it’s come together beautifully.
Mr. Gartshore can you try to play your Hauptwerk organ on Omegle.com(A website for camera chat with random strangers)? Many of the musicians in this viral days also play instruments on this website to see how strangers react to them. And also don't forget to record a whole video on Omegle.com and post it to CZcams.
tried it some time ago with a virtual theatre organ, would not recommend, trust me
How is the penis situation there these days? Last I've heard, you come across a lot of penises, but that was several years ago.
@@user-74652 still full of them
@@uselesschannelusernamegobr8913 what happened?
@@richardharrold9736 just Omegle being Omegle
Hi Fraser
A thought on having / not having stops v touchscreens..
What about, at some point in the future, having two wide-format touch-screen monitors - one on each side* of your manuals but mounted portrait wise to bring up the stops, tabs etc as per the layout of the organ itself?
*OK.... I know your Hammond / theater style organs are likely to have a bank of tabs above the manuals (third monitor??)
Yes/No/SillyIdea ??
Found this on eBay -- you can see what the device looks like.
Zorro Macsk - Instant Touch Screen for Imac 21.5-Inch
Condition:Open box
Price:
US $85.00
Just remember when drinking tea or coffee and you suddenly develop a sharp pain in your eye... take the spoon out of the cup.
I love listening to Organ music. However, I find your mixes to be a bit quiet, or rather with lots of volume headroom. Which is great for high fi recording. But before putting it out on CZcams, a bit more neutralising/compression might be better suited and would have plenty of dynamic range left. The way you mix your talking is excellent. I keep turning my volume up to compensate while you're playing and render myself halfway deaf the next commercial or jumping rather high from the scare or the sudden jump in sound level.
Looking forward to the upcoming content!
Hi, I wondering is organist also very care about the key downweight just like how pianist care?
There's no active dynamic control on the organ, so organist really don't worry about weight of keys. Although, some are a bit stiffer than others. It just takes time to get used to the tact of each instrument. That much is similar to a piano, where some are more sensitive than others
@@Jake_Broer Thank you.
on organs which have a tracker(mechanical) action * the weight required to press the keys can be significant - especially when the manuals are couple together.
The organist does not rely on key *downweight* to affect the quality or volume of the sound in the same way a pianist does. The pianist must deal with how the weight affects the throw of the hammer against the strings, whereas on the organ there is no hammer throw.
However, the tracker action provides a related effect regarding initiation of the sound coming from the pipes. With the tracker action, if the key is pressed quickly the pipe will speak very quickly - sometimes with a a bit of a chiff sound - a slightly percussive "puff" at the beginning of the sound. If the key is pushed down gradually, the *same* pipe will start to sound gradually - possibly at a slightly lower pitch - until the valve is opened enough to bring it to full pitch.
Thus the organist has some expressive control - added crispness for bright pieces, and added smoothness for legato.
Here are some explanations:
czcams.com/video/1f6zvTy_LhI/video.html&ab_channel=malcolmkogut
czcams.com/video/5mzvfJ7279s/video.html&ab_channel=FrankEzinga-OrganistinCanada
www.acoustics.ed.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/Theses/Woolley_Alan__PhDThesis_UniversityOfEdinburgh_2006.pdf
* Tracker actions are usually found on pipe organs, but can be digitally simulated on digital instruments.
@@aBachwardsfellowI dont know organist have measure the key weight or not. If the key down weight more than 80gram. Dont you easy to fatigue and get finger injury?
As i know one of the reason pianist really care about the key weight is to protect their hand. Correct me if im wrong.
@@townnet on an organ with tracker action, the key weight will vary depending on how many manuals are coupled.
The second video in my previous response has a very good discussion and demonstration of how to manage this.
Pianists typically use more fingers of both hands more often and more vigorously than in much of the organ literature where full chords in both hands does not occur as rapidly - in part due to the fact that the organ sustains sound whereas the piano must continuously repeat chords to create a sustained sound; also because of the acoustics.
Still it can be a concern on the organ if the action too heavy there can be the same problem.
With many modern organs the action is electrical switches and is usually much lighter than a piano; also coupling the keyboards is done electronically so there is no change in the weight of the keys when coupling keyboards.
You can use an Air Bar, just a little usb device to place under the screen
air.bar
Nice work. How about a facade of pipes on the wall to give it that authentic look.