Dear Fellow Pipe Organ Devotee.
I share the common goal of the of countless others in desiring to preserve the domain of the pipe organ as the King of Instruments. The future of the organ can be a bright one since there are millions out there waiting to be moved by this fabulous invention of the genius of humanity, the pipe organ. I have been an avid supporter of it for nearly 50 years since infancy and learned to love it .
One of the many ways to insure its future continuation as a viable musical medium is the symphonic tradition or approach to organ building. Much great literature has flowed from the pens of composers for that type of organ and its sensuous tones have attracted many a follower as both performers and keen listeners alike.
And what are the advantages of a symphonic pipe organ versus an ordinary one?
Well, a string quartet is a novel assembly of violes and a charm but who really would welcome that as a steady diet when the symphony orchestra has a massive string section that can fill an entire hall with great power and sweet fullness?
Similarly a solo trumpet is a delight to listen to especially I think in the baroque era literature.
Would you want that every time? How about the brass section of the orchestra?
What a magnanimous effect it contributes to orchestral compositions.
The symphonic organ which emerged from efforts such as those of Aristede Cavaille-Coll of France departed slowly from the French Classic tradition and kept certain elements of the old while adding much of the new including beautiful harmonic flute stops .
Later came the likes of Skinner, Kimball, yes Hope-Jones and others who added orchestral and ethereal and percussive stops to the array of organ voices.
Today we can have it all. Don't be deluded by the fiction that no one organ can play the literature. The organ doesn't have to...if the music is first of all in the heart it will ooze into the environment around us on ANY organ but for a soothing sumptuous and ethereal experience the symphonic organ is to be preferred and it possesses the color possibilities like that of an artistic painter who can blend paints to varying shadows and degrees of nuance.
On this forum I have posted specific porposals for the type of instrument I am advocating and I will add actual installations I have been invilved in as well as others along with appropriate commentary.
Regards
Steve Bournias in Warren Ohio
.http://pipeorgans64.netfirms.com/
Steve Bournias in Warren , Ohio
I share the common goal of the of countless others in desiring to preserve the domain of the pipe organ as the King of Instruments. The future of the organ can be a bright one since there are millions out there waiting to be moved by this fabulous invention of the genius of humanity, the pipe organ. I have been an avid supporter of it for nearly 50 years since infancy and learned to love it .
One of the many ways to insure its future continuation as a viable musical medium is the symphonic tradition or approach to organ building. Much great literature has flowed from the pens of composers for that type of organ and its sensuous tones have attracted many a follower as both performers and keen listeners alike.
And what are the advantages of a symphonic pipe organ versus an ordinary one?
Well, a string quartet is a novel assembly of violes and a charm but who really would welcome that as a steady diet when the symphony orchestra has a massive string section that can fill an entire hall with great power and sweet fullness?
Similarly a solo trumpet is a delight to listen to especially I think in the baroque era literature.
Would you want that every time? How about the brass section of the orchestra?
What a magnanimous effect it contributes to orchestral compositions.
The symphonic organ which emerged from efforts such as those of Aristede Cavaille-Coll of France departed slowly from the French Classic tradition and kept certain elements of the old while adding much of the new including beautiful harmonic flute stops .
Later came the likes of Skinner, Kimball, yes Hope-Jones and others who added orchestral and ethereal and percussive stops to the array of organ voices.
Today we can have it all. Don't be deluded by the fiction that no one organ can play the literature. The organ doesn't have to...if the music is first of all in the heart it will ooze into the environment around us on ANY organ but for a soothing sumptuous and ethereal experience the symphonic organ is to be preferred and it possesses the color possibilities like that of an artistic painter who can blend paints to varying shadows and degrees of nuance.
On this forum I have posted specific porposals for the type of instrument I am advocating and I will add actual installations I have been invilved in as well as others along with appropriate commentary.
Regards
Steve Bournias in Warren Ohio
.http://pipeorgans64.netfirms.com/
Steve Bournias in Warren , Ohio
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