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Author Topic: Organ Console??? Floyd Justin Newton Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 559 From: Phoenix, Arizona, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 01-26-2005 09:50 AM                     Don Furr-- If that is a console you're sitting at in your member picture how about a "little more info"; I am a pipe organ "Nut"!!  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-27-2005 12:44 AM                     Hey, how bout this one.....??? And a compact set of 64 footers to go along with it......  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-27-2005 05:02 AM                        64'ers? That's got to be the Atlantic City Convention Hall organ. The only other with a full length 64' is the organ at the Sydney Town Hall. As far as consoles & oomph goes, even if it didn't have a 64' rank, I'll give it to the Chicago Stadium Barton.  |  IP: Logged Don Furr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 509 From: Sun City, Ca USA Registered: Nov 2002 posted 01-27-2005 06:35 AM                     Hi Floyd....... Yes, that's a 3 manual Reuter console that belongs to the pipe organ in my home. It's a 17 rank classical organ. Gotta have something to do in my retirement besides running movies  |  IP: Logged Floyd Justin Newton Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 559 From: Phoenix, Arizona, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 01-27-2005 08:47 AM                     After all those links I think I'm going to "cream"! You know, Don, there's nothing like the sweet sound of pipes. May the "wind" blow forever! Mark: I believe your photos came from The Alantic City Convention Center site...known as the Worlds Largest Pipe Organ. Man that is one BIG beast!  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 01-27-2005 11:46 AM                     17 ranks at home! What sort of place do you live in? Have a look at this page: http://www.allypallyorgan.org.uk This was the organ in the Great Hall at Alexandra Palace, in North london. Some of the pipes in the third picture in the 1930 pictures section look about the same size as the ones in Gordon's picture, but I'm not sure if they're real pipes, or dummies. The organ was in the second building, the first one burned down almost as soon as it opened. The organ had not worked since the Second World War, but there was talk of it being restored. In 1980 Another major fire destroyed what remained of the organ. Parts of the old organ had been removed before the fire, but I'm not sure if the new organ includes any of these. The 'Crystal Palace' in South London also contained a large organ, but this was totally lost in the fire which destroyed the building, in 1936. In the Fairfield Concert Hall, about 2000 seats, next to the College where I work, there's a fairly small Harrison & Harrison instrument. I'm not sure how many ranks it has; I've never been in the pipe chambers. It's seldom played. There used to be a 'Fairfield Organ Festival' for a couple of days each year, but that seems to have stopped. They hold Tuesday lunchtime concerts during some months, and one or two of those each year are now about the only time the organ is used. Carlo Curley is a regular visitor, and he has also given at least two full length evening concerts with two organs, with another organist on the Harrison, and Carlo on his Allen digital touring organ.  |  IP: Logged Don Furr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 509 From: Sun City, Ca USA Registered: Nov 2002 posted 01-27-2005 04:27 PM                     Stephen.... When David and I bought this house there was a requirment for a large finished basement and a large double garage. The organ is in the finished basement and the screening room took 1/2 the other side. We walled off the garage and put in the screening room. This is a standard 3/3 home...nothing huge. Don  |  IP: Logged Christian Volpi Master Film Handler Posts: 349 From: Arlington, NE Registered: Apr 2004 posted 01-27-2005 04:52 PM                        Nothing beats the sound of the organ at the old Chicago Stadium during a Blackhawks game. That place would rock!  |  IP: Logged Jeffrey Korns Film Handler Posts: 22 From: marion, ia, usa Registered: Oct 2004 posted 01-27-2005 05:39 PM                        quote: Nothing beats the sound of the organ at the old Chicago Stadium during a Blackhawks game. That place would rock! Unfortunately the only thing that survived from the organ was the console and a few ranks, much of it went up in flames while it was in storage (arson). The console is owned by Phil Maloof in Las Vegas (along with several other instruments) combined into one mega instrument. The new center's "organ" can't compete- it's an electronic with all of its speakers in a closet and the entire thing run through the house audio. Oh, I believe the Sioux City Orpheum just got its' organ back from the municipal hall.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-27-2005 07:35 PM                     Man I went to countless Blackhawks games at the old Stadium!! I never did go to the new one just out of respect for the old place which I really enjoyed going to. The old Stadium had an atmosphere all of its own and talked a language all its own just when you walked around inside it. What a great place it was! From what I've seen on TV the new place seems to be so sterile and I really have zero interest in it. IMHO..when the old Chicago Stadium came down Chicago then had no Stadium at all. Mark Chicago Stadium Barton Organ  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 01-28-2005 08:38 AM                     Another pipe freak here. Just now found that the Chicago Stadium organ is gone. I found a recording about 3 weeks ago of Al Melgard playing. Incredible! I'm so sorry that this organ met such an untimely end.  |  IP: Logged Christian Volpi Master Film Handler Posts: 349 From: Arlington, NE Registered: Apr 2004 posted 01-29-2005 09:42 AM                        When they would play the National Anthem at the old stadium it would litterally bring tears to your eyes. You couldn't even hear Wayne Messmer singing because the place would be going nuts. I've been to a couple of games at the new stadium and even though I love the Blackhawks it's just not the same. At least we still have Wrigley.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 02-13-2005 03:30 AM                     ..and me at my church console. ...sitting att an ALLEN AP-16 console. Plus, some other instruments of interest: A concert at the Cincy train station. A recent installed 1929 Skinner 4/85 symphonic organ. There is a CD of this organ available. Interesting organ in Spain. How would you like to have those "Chamade" pipes, protruding from the montre, which are above the organist, being that close to you? 1956 Aeolian-Skinner and pipes layout at the "Auditorium" of the Community of Christ church, in Independence, Mo. The Schoenstein 5/125+ in the Conference Center in SLC, UTAH the famous 1862 Cavaille-Coll "le Grande Orgue" 5/140 at St. Sulpice in Paris. ..thx-Monte  |  IP: Logged Floyd Justin Newton Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 559 From: Phoenix, Arizona, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 02-13-2005 08:21 AM                     Monte-- VERY interesting! Got any more?  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 02-13-2005 08:42 AM                     If I was to aquire a pipe organ for my house, I'd have to move out just to get the organ inside! Locally, when urban renewal took over back in the early 1980's in downtown Asheville, the last of the movie palaces in Asheville bit the dust. It was the Imperial. As they started destruction, they found a pipe organ--complete-- behind several update remodelings-- that was removed complete. It is a Wickes organ, and is installed in a small church in the area today. It has a beautiful console. There's nothing left like this in Asheville anymore.  |  IP: Logged

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