Pat Riot Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 Pipe organ, that is... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Harley, #14153 Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 I’ve always found massive pipe organs to be fascinating. Not just for their beautiful music, but the mechanics of how they work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 Four keyboards, a couple of hundred switches, half a dozen (or more) foot pedals and they have to read music to boot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted June 27, 2019 Author Share Posted June 27, 2019 28 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said: Four keyboards, a couple of hundred switches, half a dozen (or more) foot pedals and they have to read music to boot! Yeah, isn't that impressive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MizPete Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 I can play an organ, but only the keyboards. When I learned, I was too short to reach the pedals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Crimes Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 and for those who were expecting the other pipes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 Lady Gaga is known for having a great set of pipes too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocWard Posted June 29, 2019 Share Posted June 29, 2019 I've always loved hearing the pipe organ at Ohio Wesleyan University's Gray Chapel. It was amazing when part of the choir and it was being played. When I watched my oldest daughter performing with the choir for Beethoven's Ninth, they had one of the emeritus professors of music there to play "Great Gate of Kiev" due to the troubles in Ukraine. It might be even more impressive from the audience! "Designed and built by Johannes Klais Orgelbau, the Rexford Keller Memorial Organ is available for use by applied organ students. The largest of six Klais organs in the country, this instrument, which is housed in Gray Chapel, is a four manual tracker action organ and has 82 ranks, 55 stops, and 4,644 pipes." Here's a picture: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted June 29, 2019 Author Share Posted June 29, 2019 Bagpipes still sound like someone stomping on a bag of cats...regardless of who’s playing them or what other instruments accompany them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocWard Posted June 29, 2019 Share Posted June 29, 2019 7 hours ago, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said: Bagpipes still sound like someone stomping on a bag of cats...regardless of who’s playing them or what other instruments accompany them. It may be, but if you have the right blood running through your veins, it's a bag of cats inspiring you to greatness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted June 29, 2019 Author Share Posted June 29, 2019 2 hours ago, DocWard said: It may be, but if you have the right blood running through your veins, it's a bag of cats inspiring you to greatness. Supposedly 71% English, 21% Irish, 9% Germanic ... All American Doesn’t matter, the blood. They hurt my ears and annoy me. Now, drums and fifes, that is inspirational! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocWard Posted June 29, 2019 Share Posted June 29, 2019 12 minutes ago, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said: Supposedly 71% English, 21% Irish, 9% Germanic ... All American Doesn’t matter, the blood. They hurt my ears and annoy me. Now, drums and fifes, that is inspirational! It's all that English blood... It overpowers any gaelic you may have! Seriously, to each their own. I enjoy the sound of bagpipes. I find fifes a bit shrill. Now pipes and drums... I have Scotland the Brave done with pipes and drums on my running mix. Pretty much impossible for me to break down to a walk while it is playing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted June 29, 2019 Author Share Posted June 29, 2019 15 minutes ago, DocWard said: It's all that English blood... It overpowers any gaelic you may have! Seriously, to each their own. I enjoy the sound of bagpipes. I find fifes a bit shrill. Now pipes and drums... I have Scotland the Brave done with pipes and drums on my running mix. Pretty much impossible for me to break down to a walk while it is playing. Want to know the funny thing. All my life my family told me I was mostly Irish. I still never cared for bagpipes...so maybe it is in the blood. Haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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