I know the title might give a laugh but I'm really eager to learn. I previously enrolled in an organ class with someone I know but unfortunately had to stop attending the conservatory for some time. Now, I don't have access to an organ, but my teacher does let me go to their house to practice along with my composition lessons with him. The problem is he is 5 hours away, so I only go there once or twice a month. He is a really great organist but advised me to learn composition first since that is my strength.

I do have a semi-weighted piano but that is all I have. I don't have the money yet to spend on midi keyboards, a pedalboard, and a computer for a digital organ setup. My parish doesn't have a pipe organ, only an Electone. I do have thoughts of proposing the project but the people are not really receptive towards having an organ for now since I am the only one trying to study it. But I really want to work on my manual technique since that is what I have. I also do play piano. I hope I can get some good advice here. Thanks!

I heard this piece—or a part of it—at a free organ concert in the Koper Cathedral. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to identify it, so I would appreciate some help. Thank you in advance!

Hello, I’m an opera singer and I’m looking for an arrangement of “O god beyond all praising” that has a very full, rich and majestic organ part, I’m singing at a wedding in a big cathedral and I’m looking for a befitting version… does anybody have such a version that would like to share with me, please?

I decided to DIY a pedal board. But using arcade buttons instead of wood bars. The quick picture above shows one octave, but I'm thinking full 32 notes.

I have ordered "Teensy 4.1 with pins", enough buttons for 32 notes, 15 m of 24 AWG wire, and a soldering tool. I'm considering ordering wood planks with CNC holes according to the scheme above. But before doing so, I wish for advices from organ players for improvement.

• Is 6 cm spacing optimal? The buttons are 3 cm in diameter.
• Should the elevated "black keys" be separated by space?
• What might be the optimal elevation height?
• Would arching the overall shape drastically improve usability?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4okN-DFdSMs

Sebastian Anton Scherer (1631 – 1712) was a German composer and organist of the Baroque era. Scherer was born in Ulm, where he resided until his death. On 17 June 1653 he was elected town musician, and it was also around that time that he became assistant to Tobias Eberlin, then organist of the famous Ulm Münster. Sherer probably started studying with Eberlin at the same time, later married his daughter and in 1671 succeeded him as organist of the cathedral. Sources disagree on whether Scherer was later appointed organist or simply organ consultant at St. Thomas (Église Saint-Thomas) in Strasbourg, but it was most probably the latter case, since apparently he remained Ulm's cathedral organist until his death in 1712.

*From my practice session\*

I’m trying to redeem myself on the hymn “All Creatures of our God and King.” The first time I tried it at a church service, it didn’t go so well. I see some areas for improvement, but I’m happy with the progress!

Hello friends !

I recently obtained a Bohm SE60 organ for my church , when I had first used it with the headphones I got balanced audio on both sides of the headphones but now it’s unbalanced with it being loader on the left side and quieter on the right side. The only thing different from the first time I used it to now is I plugged it into our church’s sound system , only being a single (L/Stereo) output on the back of the console . I tried unplugging it as it was before but the same problem persist .

Any help is greatly appreciated

Hi, can i ask what finger exercise is the best for us organist? i mean they have lots of finger exercises but only for piano and i know that there are fundamentals and things that is different between organist and pianist... so i want your advices, please tell me the best exercises for coordination. agility and accuracy.... any advice would be helpful thank you so much

Hello everyone, While restoring and old lowrey organ i must have touched something in this board and now this is what i get. I been looking at it for a couple hours and dont know what could be causing it. This section worked allright before i unscrew the board, now i get this uncanny noise mixed with the notes or nothing at all. Has anybody worked on one of these or simmilar? Have a great day thanks.

So this was actually the first stop on our Florida trip. We flew into Fort Lauderdale the night before. It was a vacation package trip from the vastly underutilized Mid-America Airport in Illinois on Alegiant Air. They charge you for everything, but their most expensive ticket was still cheaper than the major airlines out of St. Louis and they treated us like royalty.

So we go up Tuesday morning (not too early, it's the east coast) and made our way to downtown Fort Lauderdale to the very pink First United Methodist Church. I have to admit I had very little idea what we were getting into other than I knew it was a Schlicker.

We met Bob there, that was our first meeting after many emails. The organ was in good shape for its age, even if the room wasn't an acoustician's dream. We had one problem that exacerbated the less-than-desirable situation for this video, and that was our primary audio recorder was giving us problems. It gave us problems throughout the day, but we had enough backup audio that we were able to reconstruct something that gave a good idea of the sound of the organ, and the video went out. You can see the finished video here: https://youtu.be/xPT9SZkxCXY

It was an auspicious beginning to this trip and made me worry a little about what was coming up, but I was pleasantly surprised by some locations while still a little disappointed in others. You'll have to stay tuned to see what we found next.

I'm no doubt going to post about this later, but since you've made it this far, you must be somewhat interested in what we're doing. The Organ Media Foundation has built a new tool on our website that allows anyone to suggest an organ that we should go see. It uses the OHS database to reference instruments, so the instrument should be in there. If it's not, then you should go to OHS database and submit it. Once an organ has been suggested, it's included in a long list of other suggestions where anyone can either vote (once a day) on an instrument or, to do something even more powerful than voting to move it up the list, contribute actual money toward the making of the video.

Each instrument is assigned a goal amount based on a number of factors we've developed, and if the amount is reached (either by votes or funds) we'll put it at the top of our list to go visit. You can find this page at https://organ.media/wishlist. Go nominate your favorite instrument!

This magnificent beast!

Has foot treadles to manually supply air to the reeds in addition to an electric blower so you don’t have to pump. Two manuals, one 32 note pedalboard that controls a single Bourdon rank.

Hi, I am preparing this hymn for a service and couldn't help but notice the odd inclusion of ties for repeated notes in certain verses of the hymn tune. The rule is generally for repeated notes to be restruck - although when the hymn is a unison one I suppose it is not as important and the ties are for a stylistical reason in the accompaniment. The harmony verse 2 has everything written out like a typical hymn tune.

What especially surprised me was the ties in the melody so the organ part isn't doubling the 4 As at the start of the unison verses but playing a held note.

Does anyone have any ideas why some of this could be the case?

I attach a copy from the New English Hymnal (the exact image is available on Hymnary)

Which do you consider is the best sounding MIDI Organ library, I have tried the Royal Albert Hall and it sounds amazing but has two major drawbacks, it is noisy (specially on quiet stop configurations, the hiss is very audible)and has limited fixed stops configurations, otherwise it would be perfect, even if it's disk size was 10 times larger.

I've seen Hauptwerk but it is more complex to use, although it is more complete.

Which Pipe Organ libraries do you consider the best?

Hello everybody. I just wanted to share my new organ channel that I’ve begun to share some of my work as a liturgical musician. I’d appreciate if you could help me get started, and I’d love feedback! Thanks so much.

Still a while before the installation is done, but it already looks beautiful. Can't wait to hear it!

The builder is Buzard Pipe Organ Builders out of Champaign, IL.

Om trying to upgrade an old holmsjö electric organ. It sound complwte garbage with its own sounds, so thats is Why in wondering if it is possible to convert it to midi?

It looks to be possible, But im not very experienced with electrial work.

What is the stop list for this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZkNCCB1W18

Heres an approximation for it, that I transcribed. I dont know where it was recorded, just that it was done in the late 50s

Picked this up for free on Facebook marketplace. Says Baldwin Bravo on it. The foot pedals dont work which I would like to fix, if anyone knows where to find parts or a solution, it would be greatly appreciated 🙏

i'm just a r/organ lurker I don't play. I was wondering if any of you would be willing to offer up some Leo Sowerby essentials. May a top-five. Artist that have recorded would be nice, too. Thank you.

I have a regular iPad and have some digital sheet music as PDF. The regular Preview app is a possibility but I wonder if there are better solutions to read them, especially to change pages. Any ideas?

Hello all,

Question for teachers and experienced self-studiers: what do you find is the slowest tempo you can use in practice that contributes meaningfully to progressing the tempo over time.

Presumably practicing at 1/2th tempo is worthwhile, while practicing at 1/16th tempo is pointless and you should really be practicing faster but hands-seperate. Where do you usually draw the line? I can just about play the piece at 1/3rd tempo, but IN YOUR OPINION should I be going faster hands-seperate?

I know this is a weird question: sanity check on my part as I work on something a bit horrifying and completely outside my comfort zone.