What's Your Favorite Organ?

Poststructural Pub
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Man? :boggle:

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Well… I confess I thought of that too but perhaps not quite in the same context.


This is my weapon

This is my gun

This ones for killin’

This ones for fun!


Er… that would be mouth organ to you soldier.

Carry on.

No please… carry on.


:smiley:

23

I certainly enjoyed my visit to St. Joseph’s Church, in
Luzon, where I heard this Bamboo Organ.

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pipe

25

Me too!

I had organ lessons in high school. My instructor was a young college student who lived in a house that had been built around a pipe organ :boggle: One time she invited me to her house and I got to play the pipe organ for a while. The thing was like an airplane cockpit, and what a magnificent sound!!! Great acoustics too–the room it was in was half the size of a basketball court.

While I was trying out the different stops something got stuck, making a nasal whiney “ehhhhhh” sound. We ducked through a small doorway into the pipe room, which was dark and cramped, like a forest full of tree trunks. There were pipes of different colors, things with trumpet bells on the end…we finally found the stuck note, it was a “vox humana” pipe.

I stopped playing the organ after high school but it was an unforgettable experience.

26

A great example of this is Santana’s version of Black Magic Woman.

(If you listen to rock/pop music from late 60’s/early 70’s with an organ sound in it, it’s most likely a hammond b-3)

27

Thank you Wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_speaker

For the record, I am old enough to have lived in the psychedelic sixties with Steppenwolf and Deep Purple and Iron Butterfly etc. I just never knew the names of organs. It’s one of the failings of my youth.

28

Same here. Time to get organized.

29

This is a great clip of Ethel Smith playing “Tico Tico” on a Hammond B3 - something she made herself famous doing. The clip is from the movie “Bathing Beauty” of the 40’s, with Esther Williams and Red Skelton.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TA9qlWyk-7Q

Reg

30

:laughing: My elder daughter dated a pipe organist for a while during her single days. He was in the process of getting a pipe organ put in his house.
Hmmmm, that was about the time they split…

Playing the pipe organ is truly an amazing and humbling experience.

31

I wonder if there are any calliope players left.

32

There are.

33

Where?

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djm

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3SqnHSHFXc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPjSrfZs4ss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnhADXlk4QE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u32rDU2LKP0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTbrbLC4q_U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRiBvvX4MoU

Calliope house till I got sick of it lol.

David

36

Oh, man. I am so trying to avoid working with the possibilities of “organ grinder”. :smiling_imp:

37

There must be a blues song from the 1920s which fits this thread.

Sandy

38

You people have dirty minds. Tsk.

39

This really should be a poll, you know, but since it’s not – I’ll just have what he’s having.