The Great Stalacpipe Organ (a cave that you play)
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- čas přidán 20. 03. 2023
- So, I googled “biggest instrument in the world”…
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This is a reupload with its final audio pass :)
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The cave organ is a ground breaking instrument
Literally
A whole new era in underground rock music
Bruh, BOOOO!
@@robscallon last 2 pieces you played reminded me of Mirror Reaper by Bell Witch (around 48 minutes into the album). which make cense considering it too has an organ and a ton of reverb. so yea - underground melodic funeral doom it is.
@@robscallon Damn, beat me to it, lol.
This is so freaking cool
Nice to see you here Adam!
it is so freaking cool
I love jazz!
Hell yeah Adam music is fun
I literally just watched your last video before this one. Grats on the new sponsor :P
I love how that G# just decided it wanted to be an AM radio station
It always amazes me how within a couple minutes of meeting each other and with no advance planning a couple of musicians can be improvising a song that has never been heard before, and it sounds so perfect and beautiful.
Music is a language and if you know a few basic rules of said language you can converse with others. Well.. thats the dry version.
The cool version is that it is pure magic where warlocks connects their hearts and souls to the instrument and pulls their emotions to the instrument straight from the source. Literary letting god himself use their vessels to play through them.
I like both versions lol
@@PixelatedSpirit That's a great way of describing it, and I think both are true at the same time. It's sort of how each of the two brain hemispheres processes the act of playing music.
@@PixelatedSpirit the second one is for the observer and first one is the one , that we musicians actually feel :)
Birds of a feather...
It's like talking, when you speak the same language it's possible :)
“And here we find rob scallon in his natural environment: surrounded by instruments and drenched in reverb”
*surrounded by instrument
@@miguelguthridge He had his guitar as well there, so plural would be correct. (Allthough singular is funnier and also correct)
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@@megatrynHey, this is the police... We found the dead dog you have been having sex with? We need you to come in for questioning. This is really fucked up man.
As a geologist and a musician, this rocks
that's right, this is rocks!
It's quite Gneiss.
Lol probably limestone specifically, but you're the Geologist.
Rock on.
I had to give kudos for the great pun.
Hah!
+1
They must have based the Minecraft music tones off of these cave notes. This is so cool. Also, I am always in awe of how personable Rob is with anyone he meets, he seems like such a genuinely great guy.
OG composer for Minecraft is actually inspired by Richard D. James aka Aphex Twin. Ironic you say this because I'm wondering if Richard knows about this cave. He's into making weird Intruments and sounds. He has to know about this cave right?
@@Boyish000 I hope so too. And I wanna hear the minecraft music played on this cave!
This was my First Thought, This iNstrument is Minecraft 😂
Rob: “I wish I played keyboard”
Also Rob: Proceeds to play keyboard easily.
This is wicked. Now imagine a cover of Minecraft's songs with this cave organ. Fitting.
Aria Math with this would be heaven
It’s actually very similar as an instrument to a lot of what Minecraft’s composer was using on their synth lines
They should play the cursed cave ambiance to spook people
Honestly tho, I'd give just about anything for a cover of the old songs with this. Especially as a lot of it is the glockenspiel/piano/etc type sound which is percussion based.
yes
This puts a new meaning to rock music.
I bet it's hard to play
Good Lord
I would PAY to see an episode where this cave organist team, the Carillion Folks, and giant pipe organ people each go around visiting the other's respective Giant instruments, touring, playing, and watching them all nerd out together with Rob. Sounds like it would make for a cool video to me at least!
Me too!!!
I love Otto. He radiates the love he has for the instrument and his appreciation of the millions of years that went into its creation, and it's just incredible. Otto is as much a part of the instrument as the rest, I think. Beautiful video as always, thanks Rob!
Kudos to the sound guy for keeping this balanced. What a unique and difficult environment to work with.
His name's Rob, too!
He is a THE GOAT
Someone should create a sample pack of the organ notes including the radio interference.
Imagine these beautiful timbres turned into anything imaginable with a MIDI keyboard
I was thinking the same. I visited the cave about 12 years ago, and when I looked back on the video I took I wondered if I could even get an impulse response of the cave out of it, but that video was made with a super cheap digital camcorder from 2008. Now I'm imagining all you could capture with good mics in there.
Native Instruments should do a VST hahaha
you could probably just sample this video to do that.
It already has spitfire audio vibes haha
Sounds like a job for David Hilowitz Music
This feels like the kind of instrument where whoever gets in front of that keyboard, however talented they are, just ends up playing the most calming cave ambience
For this I'd love a binaural audio recording, where you can really make out where all these notes and the reflections of them come from around the room.
agreed
i'd love a surround recording
Would be very hard to do because it’s not just coming from that one room in the cave but from throughout the whole cave, so the sound they hear is from the electronic pickups
Dolby Atmos cave music here we come💯💯💯
As someone who does alot of cinematic music, I need this as a virtual instrument.
I really hope someone makes it happen.
Same here. I need this in my life
I was really hoping they'd record each of the 36 notes individually at some point in the video so they could be used for samples. One could of course pick one of the keys in the video as the base sample and transpose it; but that's defeating the purpose really being that each note has a timbre all its own, even moreso than you'd usually expect. Hopefully someone will do that one day so this beautiful instrument can be used with samplers or to make a VST.
I wouldn't put it past the sptifire labs team to sample it, they done a great job in the past.
@@GuyDude-hk8uy really hope this rise of AI's will take a shot to this. imagine how easy it is for AI to just collect and sample any specific sound resulting an output of VST or something close to it.
Can probably make it with an FM synth and some reverb.
Just when I think Rob can’t find any crazier instruments, he pulls out a whole cave
My mother played this instrument back in the 1950’s when she was house organist at Constitution Hall with the National symphony orchestra, and before that at the John Wanamaker store organ in the 1940’s. The audience was thrilled with what sounds she accomplished underground.
So jealous of the people who got to walk through while they were playing. The duet was so cool.
can't wait him to play the Earth's magnetic field as a gigantic theremin or something
Imagine we all just start hearing music simultaneously around the planet one day
It's insane that a cave also happens to sound like almost literally every cave area in a video game, I wonder if there's some connection there. Like if some game composer got inspired by this instrument, so they modeled a soundtrack after it
This instrument makes sounds the cave already makes in a controlled manner whilst physically using a real life cave. A sound designer making "cave music" is doing the same thing but in a less direct method using conventional musical tools inspired by sounds they may have heard in a cave.
Of course it sounds like a cave, it is a cave, making the sounds that a cave makes.
Am cave. Can confirm
Am shape. Concave.
Am caveman. Rock bang hang rock. Like. Many cavewomen like. Bang many cavewomen. Am rockstar. Confirm.
This made me oddly emotional, I have a feeling if I heard this live I’d just start weeping omg
It’s cool but honestly a little underwhelming on a regular tour (self guided btw) you have to wait for a decent amount of people to gather and then you really don’t hear it that loudly
@@dowhat5151 hmm well then thank goodness for the power of audio editing haha
@@dowhat5151I feel like the whole thing would break if it would be louder, so it makes sense
The band "pepe deluxe" recorded a song in there. Its called "in the cave", and definitely worth a listen (as well as the rest of that album)!
Yes! An awesome album! They're always looking for cool stuff to record.
How incredible! Three thoughts: entered my mind…
1. I’m pretty sure hundreds of millions of kids young and old alike would be very familiar with this instrument had Daniel Rosenfeld had access to it while designing the Minecraft soundtrack.
2. A softer, gentler Walter White on cave keys.
3. To say this is the biggest instrument is a HUGE understatement. You were literally playing a planet!
I immediately thought of minecraft lol
@@javierdiaz3511 haha, me too!
@@javierdiaz3511 same and interstellar
@@javierdiaz3511 I also immediately thought how perfect this would be for Minecraft cave music! 😅
Sounds like the handpan in Aria Math
I need an album of Otto playing some calm music on this organ!!! It’s just so gorgeous…
If you search for "The Great Stalacpipe Organ" (the name of the instrument) on CZcams, you can find some recordings!
I’m glad to see Walter found a career that gives him the peace he needs.
I have “singing” limestone in my yard. Love the sounds they make.
Everyone in that cave was more lucky than they knew. I can only imagine how much better it sounds in person.
This NEEDS to become a VST or Kontakt library! With convolution reverbs from different parts of the cave. I hope we will get that some day to preserve this beautiful sound and make it actually "tour" all over the world :D
Absolutely 💯
dude that would be sick
That would be absolutely insane! Hell yes
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Would be a clever way to fund its maintenance and get it out to the world
I love to watch you “feel” an instrument. I can tell you are working so sincerely and lovingly to understand it and bring yourself into it. I wish I could hear this beautiful cave in person!
It's amazing to hear a different timbre for each note being played because of the structure of the stalactites, it adds some depth that makes any song sound more interesting.
So true. I think it’s may also be affected by the how far away each note is from the organ/mic. The solenoids also seem to have percussive distinctions as well.
Rob’s brought his music to new depths
Now he has to find a space station with an instrument to reach new heights
Living in VA, Luray was something I've kind of grown tired of since it's one of those easy field trip type places. But seeing others enjoy it for the first time really does bring me back to when I still had that sense of wonder about the place. Walking through there as a kid and randomly hearing faint bell like sounds and being told that it was the cave blew my mind.
Still love the mirror lake tho
When we went for school a couple years ago they weren't playing it. I'm glad to see they are
from manassas, personally i have more memories of shennendoah caverns than luray caverns, but the memories i associate luray with are coming west on 211 crossing the AT and picking up random hitchikers to bring into town, and the page theater :)
I went out with my family only once. I've got serious nostalgia. Also the collection of nascar flags on the roof of the building to this day confuses me.
I saw it in shot for a second.
There are a number of caverns in the area, Luray, Shenandoah, Skyline, and Endless Caverns all in the eastern Shenandoah Valley.
It’s a beautiful area with tons of history, wine an natural outdoor adventures.
Come visit.
@@katmandudawn8417 for sure. Virginia is very interesting historically.
Man I hate it here tho. Price of living is cheap tho so can't complain
I am fortunate enough to live within easy traveling distance of Luray Caverns. It's been a school field trip destination for decades in Virginia. I remember hearing this organ when I was in Middle School. It is unreal. Something that needs to be experienced in person.
Man. This video showed up at just the right time.
Been dealing with some isolation and depression issues. This video put a smile on my lips and peace in my heart. Thank you for sharing this, with us.
That moment when musical Tom Scott figured out how to really play on the absurd instrument taking a back seat and doing much less. Chills. Absolute chills
He should make a whole album these two instruments
yeah, and I'd unironically listen to it so much XD
Yes, I would love an album with this for teaching my yoga classes. It would be perfect.
There is a cave organ album full of classical pieces played on it. It sounds beautiful but I couldn't find a CD or download of it when I was looking. It's on CZcams, though.
Now he needs to add some cave to the next FOO album.
Literally, I'm like, falling asleep to the pretty music they make and I would live to have more to sleep to
I actually have been here and I managed to catch them playing a song on it, it was played automatically but it was the actual sounds from the cave, but honestly there were parts of the cave that made me kinda sad because there were so many parts where you could tell some tourists had just come along and messed things up a whole bunch, but the instrument is absolutely beautiful and being in this cavern was a wonderful experience
The sound reminds of the sound an organic xylophone would make if there was one. Ty. This was so interesting... not surprised they used it as a dance hall back in the day. So cool! ... I believe this is one of the most beautiful sounds i have ever heard.
Thank you Rob for finding and playing the cave organ for us. You and Otto just touched my soul.
U and the whole crew just gave my heart and soul a frequency upgrade. My now day has started complete. Hugs, Serenity, love, harmony and balance are yours and mine. KIMURIA. SHANTI. Tanqu!!!!!!!!⭐🎼🎹🎶🎵🔔🎼💛💎💙💛
Man, when Rob had him give him a melody on the piano and he followed suit.. it was so gorgeous, I can't even describe it. I am so grateful to have witnessed such a beautiful improvisation. I have to go to this cave before I die just for the sure beauty. This place gives the feeling of bliss.
That’s pretty amazing.
Honestly, the jam sessions sell these videos. Seeing musicians from amazingly diverse instruments and techniques come together is so beautiful and inspiring.
I really want a whole album of just otto and rob playing the cave and the guitarlele together now.
Hard not to cave in and watch this.
Hope you like underground rock music 😉
I’m so glad Rob covered this instrument because it’s so cool
It is pretty cool, chilly even
It's so magical. Can I get a 3 hour video of nonstop music from that cave? I need it.
If that exists and finds my ears some day, I will cry... what they played here had me sentimental.
When you were playing the guitar and the cave at the same time, it reminded me so much of lofi music. Really calming.
12:47 Omg the outer wilds theme NEEDS to be performed here. With the different instruments placed in different areas throughout the cave.... I heard it on that guitar for a split second and it MUST HAPPEN!
Also Rob, if you have never heard that soundtrack, treat yourself.
I was thinking the same thing. Everyone’s here talking about Minecraft but I need to hear something like Travelers or River’s End on this thing
Amazing idea
i started playing it in my room right about that time lol
they got into the zero-g cave 🔥🔥🔥
Andrew Prahlow should visit that place
If you're kind and work very hard, being a musician can get you into a cavernous organ where you'll have a good time. I mean look at how respectful and supportive of the cave Rob is.
when you guys started playing together i cant shed a tear. it was just beautiful
This is absolutely unbelievable! When I was in high school, I wrote a story about a cave that had a pipe organ in it. The lady who played it was named Melody. She had a tiny finger symbol on the end of each strand of her hair. Imagine what sound that would make when she moved her head or her hair floated in the wind. Of course, the sound occurred along with the sounds of the organ she was playing. I never knew there could be something like this.
This is a rock solid instrument
Now I can tell people Rob is the best underground artist
I'm here for the "earth music".... just incredible!! What a beautiful presentation of something absolutely mind blowing... thanks for doing this video!
You kept that footage in where the fan asked for a pic, and I'm certain that fact made his whole freakin' year dude. So cool.
Respect to rob for bringing his studio engineer! He brought the guy that would appreciate the unique sound dynamics the most! 💚🔥🔥🔥
i grew up in VA and went to Luray Caverns multiple times... this was my favorite part... so cool to see it getting some love
In spite of all that is wrong in the world, videos with people like this, making new sounds, discovering new worlds of sound on the spot - this makes life good. Thank you, Rob.
What a beautiful unexpected instrumental. I love the look of childish joy, that rob gets after playing it a bit. Well done.
@20:28 I really wanted to hear Otto play longer, it was so beautiful
Oh my gosh, so happy this instrument finally gets the recognition it deserves! I first saw the Luray Caverns and heard the organ when I was about 8 years old, and never forgot that beautiful sound...my dream is to play it myself one day
Wow, an intersection between one of my favorite CZcamsrs and one of my favorite albums! I first learned about the Great Scalacpipe Organ through a podcast that was reviewing the Pepe Deluxe album “Queen of the Wave”. I learned that one of their songs for that album was played and recorded on this specific instrument. Over ten years later, here I see Rob playing the same instrument. Truly incredible!
My mother told me about this place. She went there in the 1960s or 70s, and the story was so cool. I didn't know that it still existed.
In 2018 and 2019 I was a tour guide at Luray Caverns. It was such a magical place to be. I will never have a job that felt more fulfilling than that.
Pepe Deluxe made an awesome song on this organ! It's called "In The Cave"! They are amazing and use tons of weird/antique/unique instruments!
Yes! What's crazy is they originally composed "In the Cave" for their 2007 album _Spare Time Machine_ but when they asked about recording on the Great Stalacpipe Organ, they found out it was under repairs. So they chose to drop "In the Cave" from _Spare Time Machine_ and use the song on their next album instead. Said next album, _Queen of the Wave_ wound up being an adaptation of a mystical novel from the 1800s... which just happened to feature a scene with an organ recital inside a cave. This coincidence was just too good to pass up. So when they finished the rest of _Queen of the Wave_ and heard the Great Stalacpipe Organ was _still_ under repair, this time they waited for the repairs to finish. They delayed the album two years just so they could include that song, played on the proper instrument.
Holy shit I never knew that and have listened to that album so much, thanks for the knowledge dump
I visited here in 2015 with my aunt and uncle who lived nearby at the time. Surprisingly, not too many people there. Hearing the organ is one of the most beautiful, ethereal and otherworldly experiences I've had the privilege of enjoying. If you find yourself in the area you have to go!
This is so amazing! @RobScallon you inspired a work on my latest binaural beats album, "Waves Of Imagination" called "Singing Cave." I could never replicate what Nature Herself has given us with that cave, but the opener on the album, "Singing Cave" is but a tribute. Thank you for bringing waves of imagination and creativity to so very many new and upcoming artists!
when you two played together, guitar and cave i nearly cried, absolute goosebumps.. so powerful, and im sure it must sound even more magical in person than on recording
Grew up in luray and it’s surreal to see any form of media about it since it’s so small, thank you for making this
Same
I'm pretty sure I went there once when I was a kid. Never realized it had something so unique.
In a way, this is exactly how I expected a cave to sound
To hear the Earth sing... wow. Shivers. :)
It's beautiful.
It's amazing what humans are capable of creating working with nature. Literally. These guys gave Gaia a singing voice, and it is wondrously grand. I need to hear this in real life.
Hearing you play along with the Earth is just so beautiful in so many ways.
I'm a musician - a singer - and if anyone is wondering how these two could create music together having never rehearsed together, we - musicians - have an ability to 'read' one another when we shift into music mode. It's something that can't really be explained. It's more felt than anything. Those who are trained can 'hear' each other more clearly using that skill and knowledge of music, but anyone with musical talent has that innate skill.
I have a powerful need to sing in this cavern now.
This is simply amazing. Whoever built this turned one of nature's works of art into one of their own. And just imagine if this sound were sampled in Minecraft's soundtrack and it played a really peaceful song when you're exploring the lush and dripstone caves, or if it played a really creepy song when you're in the underground city... Mesmerizing.
I was practically screaming in my mind that some Minecraft songs would be AMAZING to play here. I was really really hoping one would come to mind for Rob.
But what an absolute delight this video was.
I actually went to Luray Caverns back in September 2022 and believe me, It sounds INSANE in person!
I've been using these videos as part of our home schooling music education while we eat lunch. My kids have learned so much and love it. They want to play all the interesting instruments Rob has introduced us to.
I am now patiently waiting for you to create the ultimate piece using as many unique instruments as you can giant Bass Sitar, shovel, Carillon bells, the cave organ, glass armonica, pipe organ and so much more.
12:47 I could have died listening to this and I would have been perfectly happy. Pure bliss
"what instruments do you play?"
Rob: yes
Heart-wrenchingly beautiful.
I visited the caverns as a thirteen year-old in 1975. It is still just as amazing and spellbinding as it was then! Thank you for an awesome memory!
This is awesome! I live about 45 minutes south of Luray and I'm stoked you got to experience the caverns. The Great Stalacpipe Organ is so sick
This seems like something Minecraft should totally look into for music when you’re in those huge caverns they added
13:00 Wow. The natural reverb of the guitar and the cave itself is crazy moving.
Imagine making a whole planet into an instrument, like every mountain is a note
I had chills throughout my entire body any time they played it. This is the coolest and most soothing instrument I've ever seen/heard and it's only a couple of hours away from me. I HAVE to visit.
The end ambient with the silence and dripping is radically inspirational for my own musical thoughts - what a beautiful experience. Thank you for sharing!
So many insane and awesome qualities! The fact that it can pick up radio on the resonance is just one more wild thing about it!
This feels like some sort of underground shop in a video game.
This is a certified Scallon classic.
The music that came from this is so beautiful to me, I think it should be played through the cave at all times, feel like I’m back in my nostalgic days of Minecraft
Not only this video, but every time you cover amazing and unique or unusual instruments it makes me emotional, the way you present it, the passion showing through, just big half an hour long videos appreciating the beauty of music. Thank you for making these Rob, sincerely.
The duets are always my favorite part of these videos! Lovely!!
You can definitely tour with it, the tour just happens inside of it instead.
Lol
The only tour where the audience does all the traveling
My mom went here when she was a kid and still has records of the music that they played back in the late 70's.
loved the duet you two played. very cool vibe. awesome reverb the cave provided.
I visited the caverns as a child and have always wanted to go back with some instruments. This is incredible.
From a production standpoint this video took a ton of work. Mixing the delicate sounds of a cave with voices and a guitar is crazy. Great work!
Man this is such a special channel. Thank you Rob for sharing so many beautiful things with us. You make CZcams a much better place!
ngl, brought me to tears. absolutely beautiful.
it's beautiful, just listening to three artists make art. you, the organist, and the earth. harmonizing. it's almost like everything in the world came about just to foster this moment.
genuinely, the most beautiful thing i've heard in.. years.