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Double Bass Very old instrument found on craigslist

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#105
Brandon Tuomiko said:
It was the fritts organ at St joseph cathedral. In Ohio
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They did a nice job with matching that thing up with the space. It's astounding. While you were here did you get over to the Ohio Theater and play the Morton they have over there? It's in great shape and sounds amazing in that room as well.
 
#106
Unfortunately, no. I really dont know the theatre style playing very much to be in a theatre! I did get the chance to play a Wurlitzer at the Orpheum theatre, and a guy here in Omaha, has a large Kimball theatre pipe organ in his home. Thats really all I have had in terms of theatre playing...
 
#107
Brandon Tuomiko said:
Does anyone here have a problem with me playing the organ? Lets leave it at this- I care more for any pipe organ than a bass. I would ditch a Prescott for a pipe organ. Is that a problem? No I do not have 1 million dollars for a pipe organ. You don't like what I do, well I do not like you.

The organ is my main instrument, and I give the organ world much more respect. At least they care about other organist and support me. You people just aren't very nice and don't seem to care for anyone
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Gee, I didn't see where anyone said anything even approaching something critical about you playing the organ. I hope you give the organ world more respect than you do your fellow bass players here. I think folks here care a great deal about other players and are, in general, quite supportive. In my experience, most of the folks here are very nice. It's unfortunate that you feel otherwise. "As ye sow, so shall ye reap."

As for the organ, it's always been one of my favorite instruments-- from pipe organ through to the Hammond B-3. I was always kind of partial to Maurice Durufle. His stunning rendition of the Saint-Saens #3 captivated me from an early age. Great bass!
 
#109
Well thanks Drurb. That makes me fell more welcome. I used to have a B3... fun organ... and when you got a leslie and a band, its sure a sweet organ. But at the time, I needed something that was good for pipe organ playing. So I had to sell it for a larger organ. :( I miss it...
 
#110
Brandon Tuomiko said:
Well thanks Drurb. That makes me fell more welcome. I used to have a B3... fun organ... and when you got a leslie and a band, its sure a sweet organ. But at the time, I needed something that was good for pipe organ playing. So I had to sell it for a larger organ. :( I miss it...
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Ah, the Leslie. Believe it or not, I've sat and read engineering documents on that (part of my acoustics involvement). Do you know that Saint-Saens performance? I'll have to look up which organ it was. It was a great recording. IIRC, it has a 32 Hz (or so) pedal tone. My dad drove a University speaker (before your time) right off the frame with that. The speaker he replaced it with is sitting right next to me now-- a 1951 15" Tannoy Monitor Silver in a 9 cu-ft cabinet. A number of organists of that era used the Tannoy as their driver of choice. Talk about bass!

Sorry to all for the off-topic post.
 
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I remember spending nights practicing the Casavant Freres 3 manual located in the organ loft of Notre Dame de Chicago (just off the Loop). The church was a smaller version of the cathedral in Montreal. Some restoration work had been done on the organ but a number of the stops and couplers did not work. It did have this massive 32' Bourdon that shook the whole place though. Good memories . . .
 
#112
Have not heard the Saint Saens one.

The 32' bourdon is only 16' feet tall. Its a resulent. So its half length. But can produce a lot of boom.

The cathedral I play at- st cecilias- has an organ with a 32' soubass. (baroque bordoun)
And a 32' trombone, which is full 32' feet tall. the think rattles the whole organ case. Quite fun to play.

There is 2 organ in the world that have a full length 64' pedal stops. That is 16 hrz.
In audible to the human ear, but you can actually feel the stop in you. Rattles your organs around!

And on one of these organs, the worlds largest pipe organ to be presice, has the 64' and a 42 and 2/3s in the pedal. Together, this makes a 128' sound.

128'= ?8? herz. TALK ABOUT BASS!!!! The thing is super un-musical as it is so low, it cant be tuned right, and is just more rattling that sound!
 
#117
Brandon Tuomiko said:
Ill look it up on the youtube!
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Youtube? Nah, you gotta get the CD. I thought you were saying that you haven't heard that particular performance. Are you saying you are unfamiliar with the Organ symphony itself? That would be rather amazing for a guy who loves the pipe organ. Here's a link. This is a very famous recording, known world-wide by pipe-organ lovers.

See? You learned something new and valuable on TalkBass from a friendly double-bass player! :)
 
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#119
Jason- My dream organ!

Bass- Yes I have read like 10 different books on organ- some are- Pulling out all the stops- A book by the very famous Don Bedos- And others.

drurb. I looked it up, and had to slap myself! Of course I have heard it! Just forgot its name. Ha. Thanks
 
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