Alessandria Organ Demonstration | Better Audio!

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  • čas přidán 10. 03. 2021
  • Buona Sera! Bella Italia meets the virtual organ world! Today's video - my longest yet - is a demonstration of the 2010 Mascioni organ located in San Giovanni Evangelista in Alessandria, Italy.
    This video os an edited version of the original featuring better audio quality.
    The organ was perfectly sampled for Hauptwerk by Piotr Grabowski (piotrgrabowski.pl/) who generously donated the organ sample set to the channel! Thanks Piotr!
    I demonstrate the organ's capabilities, showing off some of its stops and tonal colors as well as deafening you with the truly amazing high-pressure Tuba - a unique stop in Italy!
    Then I perform a piece of improvised music to let you hear the organ's dynamic range - from the softest sounds all the way to Tutti, complete with the solo Tuba!
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Komentáře • 54

  • @franconicora9182
    @franconicora9182 Před rokem +2

    Thanks for the demonstration! I'm the voicer who created the sounds of the organ back in 2010 and I'm very happy that you like them.

    • @FraserGartshore
      @FraserGartshore  Před rokem +2

      Wow! Congratulations on a fantastic job! It’s a beautiful instrument indeed! I look forward to playing the real organ one day.

  • @vincentd.1424
    @vincentd.1424 Před 3 lety +5

    Thanks for fixing the audio!

  • @malcolmgreening6936
    @malcolmgreening6936 Před 3 lety +1

    It just keeps getting better, your enthusiasm for the new "facilities" is evident ! Thank you for sharing.

  • @jerrymartin79
    @jerrymartin79 Před 3 lety +2

    Thanks Fraser! i was just enjoying your first upload last evening, but was thrilled to find a new version at which to leave my comment and gratitude. A wonderful exploration of the organ! Bravo!

  • @kjgomes
    @kjgomes Před 3 lety +1

    Thank you for reuploading! I could almost not hear the strings at all before unless I cranked up the volume significantly. Great demo! Would love to see you do more demos of virtual organs in the future.

  • @robertbrodine9841
    @robertbrodine9841 Před 3 lety +1

    Oh my!! What a difference, thank you!

  • @amangogna68
    @amangogna68 Před 3 lety +1

    Really fantastic demonstration !

  • @jeffconley819
    @jeffconley819 Před 3 lety +1

    This is just so amazing to me!!!!!

  • @WCM1945
    @WCM1945 Před 3 lety

    YAYYY!!! Great audio now, and now I can _really_ appreciate your work! Thanks again, sir!

  • @VoxAngelica8
    @VoxAngelica8 Před 3 lety

    Great job!

  • @CornishMiner
    @CornishMiner Před 3 lety

    Magic. The samples are incredible. Beautifully crowned with the sound of the blower at the end.

  • @Musician-Lee
    @Musician-Lee Před 3 lety

    I’m really enjoying all these Hauptwerk demos. This particular organ is marvellous.

  • @james.flores
    @james.flores Před 3 lety +1

    Recitativo expressssivooooo! 👌 Bellissima!

  • @jrzzrj
    @jrzzrj Před 2 lety

    👍...Really interesting. Great sounding pipes. Thanks for sharing.

  • @tomthecat897
    @tomthecat897 Před 3 lety

    The flutes sound beautiful 🥰🎶

  • @JeffMusa1
    @JeffMusa1 Před 3 lety

    Sounds delightful in my living room in 5.1 sound. The bass really speaks - gives my subwoofer something to say.

  • @MrVic2491
    @MrVic2491 Před 3 lety +1

    Well at least some good has come out of Covid. I doubt we would have heard Fraser on this organ. It would have been just a pipedream. Keep up the good work. Looking forward to hear some less well known pieces explored here.

  • @grahamtwist
    @grahamtwist Před 3 lety

    I thought your first upload was perfect . . . but now you have perfection perfected! And that tuba! As you acquire more and more sample sets, you will feel like the proverbial little boy in a sweet shop - too excited and really spoiled for choice. I look forward to a future video in due course when you present: "Fraser's favourite sample set of all time - and why" (though you may find this Mascioni takes some beating!).

  • @neverquit2470
    @neverquit2470 Před 2 lety

    I come from Alessandria!! Thanks a lot for your amazing knowledge...
    Now, I live in Surrey, UK

  • @RalphLooij
    @RalphLooij Před 3 lety

    Sounds even better. And with only Front channels it already sounds so good (we have only 2 ears...).
    This organ has such a warm embracing sound. Although the Italian principals are very clearly recognizable, a Mascioni signature. Thanks!

  • @tensorprodukt
    @tensorprodukt Před 3 lety

    You where the last bit of motivation that made me buy an old organ Pedalboard over ebay that I will midify this Summer :-D :-D looking forward to start practicing :-D

  • @coasterb1
    @coasterb1 Před 3 lety +1

    Now you just need a touch screen to easily select the stops. Lovely playing as usual.

  • @markcooke729
    @markcooke729 Před 3 lety

    Flauto a cuspide is basically a spire flute or spitzflote, cuspide roughly translating into cusp or point.

  • @MarcusB-qr1hk
    @MarcusB-qr1hk Před 3 lety

    Thanks indeed for fixing the audio!

  • @andrewanderson5048
    @andrewanderson5048 Před 3 lety +1

    Hi Fraser, the Hauptwerk setup is sounding excellent, especially with the Alessandria samples and I absolutely love that Great Tromba - the perfect filler between Trumpet and Tuba. I do have a concern over how much your wife has seen of you in the last week though!

  • @philippbalz1863
    @philippbalz1863 Před 3 lety +1

    🤫 habe es in der badewanne genossen 😋 deliziös oder so 🥰🥰 das raumgefühl im badezimmer

  • @AndrewMundellAndrewJMundell

    It's been quite a while since I've heard you play recently I only really started again after some of the health problems I had told you about in other comments today. You really have cheered me up so thank you for that. Any chancer of some more traditional Royal and Ceremonial Music at some point/ Sorry as you can see my typing isn't any better

  • @hinakomalin
    @hinakomalin Před 3 lety

    Wow. Something new I learn. Flauto cuspide is another name for Flauto conico. Or the Spitzflöte stop on German organs. Or Spire Flute in English according to the organ stop encyclopaedia.

  • @theoisaac9948
    @theoisaac9948 Před 3 lety +1

    👍💯

  • @EElgar1857
    @EElgar1857 Před 3 lety

    Wow, quite an instrument, and you play it beautifully! That Tuba is even bigger than a Willis, isn't it?

  • @WCM1945
    @WCM1945 Před 3 lety +1

    That system is _begging_ for a touch-screen!

  • @jeffconley819
    @jeffconley819 Před 3 lety

    New to all this . Where do I go to find out about hardware and software.
    The only keyboard I have now is a Hammond B3. It plays very nice but this new digital is amazing . I must try this new stuff.
    Very lovely playing.

  • @WoodymC
    @WoodymC Před 3 lety +1

    Thanks for the demo, Fraser... Purchased and downloaded the set last night! :-)
    May I ask which surround mixing settings you used in your demonstration (close-up, front, rear percentages)? --- Thanks a lot in advance!

    • @FraserGartshore
      @FraserGartshore  Před 3 lety

      Nice! For my demo, this was front only (due to ram issues!) there’s a rather clever slider on Piotr’s site to try out various balance options for Alessandria! You’ll love it - I’ve been playing the organ pretty much all day today!🙈

    • @WoodymC
      @WoodymC Před 3 lety

      @@FraserGartshore Yep, found that feature and tried it yesterday in the late evening...a clever idea from Piotr to incorporate that on his website. Will install and start to play around with the set during weekend -- especially since it's the first set that is somewhat a "return on investment" for me: Just got my new machine up & running two weeks ago with Win7Pro (yes, it took me 2 years to find adequate drivers but I hate Win10 *SO* darn much...) on a Ryzen processor with 24 vCores and 128GB of RAM! :-D

  • @organblower
    @organblower Před 3 lety +1

    The tuba is "mirabilis." 'Father' Willis, eat your heart out!

  • @syncrosimon
    @syncrosimon Před 3 lety

    If Compton could only see this!!

    • @FraserGartshore
      @FraserGartshore  Před 3 lety +1

      Isn’t it crazy to think that only a few years ago, we were all excited about Allen digital organs. Now this! Let’s not compare the costs!

  • @fiatunonewsletter6782
    @fiatunonewsletter6782 Před 3 lety

    In reality we play for a congregation only on the swells. Not enough people to sing if we play on the great.... organ too loud. So we adapted to be creative on the swells only. Eventually one adapts to a new technique. By preference the swells organ sounds far more clear and less noisy.

  • @bobh5087
    @bobh5087 Před 3 lety

    Many thanks for the very interesting demo. Nice, "beefy" string stops. Dupré: "Cortege et Litanie." 👍❤️
    Cromorne / Krummhorn = "Clarinet" (loosely); even though the (orchestral) Clarinet wasn't invented until somewhat later than these organ stops (by JC Denner, around 1698; by modifying the chalumeau).
    A very effective Resultant 32' (better than many), and the live acoustics help "sell" it.

    • @FraserGartshore
      @FraserGartshore  Před 3 lety +1

      Coming to a channel near you soon! (Once the swells are installed, there’ll be no stopping me!)

    • @user-74652
      @user-74652 Před 3 lety +1

      I'm pretty sure the cromorne/krummhorn stop was named after the instruments featured in this video: czcams.com/video/amo28hDld6o/video.html
      It is, indeed, interesting that, at least in this case, the organ stop sounds almost nothing like the instrument it took its name from.

    • @bobh5087
      @bobh5087 Před 3 lety

      @@user-74652 Yes, a very interesting video. But these "Krumhorns" sound more like the organ Regal stop, I think. A more "pinched" and piquant sound than the Cromorne / Krummhorn.

  • @joeberta368
    @joeberta368 Před 3 lety

    Greeting Fraser
    Q. THE FOUR MANAL I am familiar with is arranged. -- positive - great - swell and solo -- I noticed you played the positive on what I have always known as the great. Is this what you will plan? Great on the bottom - positive? Thanks

    • @micheledallalba8950
      @micheledallalba8950 Před 3 lety

      traditionally italian organs have the great as the bottom manual

    • @FraserGartshore
      @FraserGartshore  Před 3 lety

      Yep, Michele is right. Like most continental European organs, the lower manual is often the great. I have kept things the way the original organ is laid out - with Hauptwerk I could theoretically have the manuals wherever I want them. I covered that in a previous video.

    • @joeberta368
      @joeberta368 Před 3 lety

      @@FraserGartshore - thanks -- yes indeed with the miracle of Hauptwerk almost anything can be done. - as a hobbyist [I can’t claim to be an organist by any means] I have a wonderful 2 manual Rodgers 760. I put the top two manuals on the swells and the bottom too on the great - not perfect - but WONDERFUL and FUN.

  • @andrewmurray1550
    @andrewmurray1550 Před 3 lety +3

    I keep wanting to expect orchestral instrument sounds which are not really possible from just pipes since "clarinets" and "oboes" are not being played (or wind blown through) reeds in the actual pipes like a reed instrument would usually have. I'm surprised organ builders don't include (Scottish) "bagpipe" stops.

  • @ANDREWB7360
    @ANDREWB7360 Před 3 lety

    out of sycnc