It's a pretty amazing instrument. Usually I sit in the back row of the chorus and last year at the end of the b-minor mass I could feel the air from one of those big pipes blowing on my back!
Yes, when a well-designed organ gets going it is really something else. Sitting at the bench of the organ I play out at UBC (when I can find the time these days), I as much feel the vibration coming up through the floor, as hear the lowest bass rank.
And the Mahler piece has to be fun to sing with that many people.
Found the webpage with the description of the Fisk organ: Sitka spruce pipes in the facade, a good choice. Have never played a Fisk instrument, although surely to goodness there must be a few around our place.
When they first built the hall the front pipes were up, but none of the rest of the organ was built. Then over a pretty long period of time they kept flying the guys out to put more and more in -- sometimes I'd see stuff backstage and wonder where it was all going to go (at that point I was chorus librarian and in the building an awful lot). Someday I'd like to go up into the loft just to see it all up close. There's even a little video screen with a closed-circuit camera on the conductor, none of this old-fashioned mirror technology. ;-)
And welcome. don't know that I have all that much exciting to say, but more friends is a good thing.
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And the Mahler piece has to be fun to sing with that many people.
Found the webpage with the description of the Fisk organ: Sitka spruce pipes in the facade, a good choice. Have never played a Fisk instrument, although surely to goodness there must be a few around our place.
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And welcome. don't know that I have all that much exciting to say, but more friends is a good thing.
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