Guest Lee Blick Posted January 31, 2006 Share Posted January 31, 2006 I thought I would come up with a couple of console designs to stevebournias specifications. As you can see it offers plenty of resources and duplexing, a feature in Mr Bournias's design. http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e72/leeb...rniasorgan1.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e72/leeb...rniasorgan2.jpg Comments welcome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcnd5584 Posted January 31, 2006 Share Posted January 31, 2006 HA!! The second is perhaps the most frightening. Of course, it probably does exist somewhere in Ohio.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emsgdh Posted January 31, 2006 Share Posted January 31, 2006 I thought I would come up with a couple of console designs to stevebournias specifications. As you can see it offers plenty of resources and duplexing, a feature in Mr Bournias's design. http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e72/leeb...rniasorgan1.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e72/leeb...rniasorgan2.jpg Comments welcome! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I think that you've hit the nail on the head, Lee. These bear the unmistakable flavour of Sauce La Bournais - adolescent nightmare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcnd5584 Posted January 31, 2006 Share Posted January 31, 2006 Interesting! Do you, sir, know if in fact we are dealing with a 'young person?' Certainly it might in part explain certain idiosyncrasies in his behaviour and his postings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lee Blick Posted January 31, 2006 Share Posted January 31, 2006 I wish I hadn't started this thread now. It was only meant to be something light-hearted. It wasn't supposed to be a slur on anyone. I am going to stop posting anything to do with stevebournias from now on. That person surely needs an organ transplant imho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lee Blick Posted January 31, 2006 Share Posted January 31, 2006 yours is probabaly a mighty Gulbransen 2 manual 44-note Spinet with light-up keys. I could be very rude, if we are going start comparing the size of our organs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest paul@trinitymusic.karoo.co.uk Posted January 31, 2006 Share Posted January 31, 2006 I could be very rude, if we are going start comparing the size of our organs... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Lee, I find your latest contributions extremely amusing, so don't stop! In particular, don't let Steve B (who should not be posting on this site) get you down. He has been officially suspended from posting on this site, but has clearly found a way around it. Every new posting from yfd confirms that we are surely hearing once again from the same man. He has not learned either tolerance or manners, it seems. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MusingMuso Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 I thought I would come up with a couple of console designs to stevebournias specifications. As you can see it offers plenty of resources and duplexing, a feature in Mr Bournias's design. http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e72/leeb...rniasorgan1.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e72/leeb...rniasorgan2.jpg Comments welcome! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ============================ The second is very close to my recent idea for a completely circular console, into which the organist descends like a fish-bowl. With a Howard Seat, your design is possibly workable, but with fixed seat, there is not the slightest possibility that those toe-pistons could be reached. At least, you achieved your aim of producing a very, very, very non-RCO console!! I have an even better idea in mind. A 16-manual console where the organist rotates like a spit, strapped into a bucket-seat and wearing a crash-helmet. Just one small grips. I think you have used a little rickery to get all those thumb-pistons. In fact, I suspect that they are mints stuck on with super-glue, just for effect. You must have a very large workshop/garage/garden-shed. When can we visit? MM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lee Blick Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 where the organist rotates like a spit, strapped into a bucket-seat and wearing a crash-helmet What a furtive mind you have, MM! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lee Blick Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 thank goodnes yfd has been unregistered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Roffensis Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 I thought I would come up with a couple of console designs to stevebournias specifications. As you can see it offers plenty of resources and duplexing, a feature in Mr Bournias's design. http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e72/leeb...rniasorgan1.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e72/leeb...rniasorgan2.jpg Comments welcome! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> EXCELLENT!!!!! Rick Wakeman would be jealous, but does it have a 4 foot flute??? R Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lee Blick Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 Sure! Can't you see it? Fifth row up, 34th tab in? Rick Wakeman appalls me. I find his stuff pretentious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nfortin Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 Console pictures - superb, worth a thousand words as they say. Re. Rick Wakeman, I'm in no way known for my appreciation of any non-classical music, but I would have to admit to finding the "organ" interlude in "Close to the edge" a thrilling moment. Sad perhaps, but honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Newnham Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 Console pictures - superb, worth a thousand words as they say. Re. Rick Wakeman, I'm in no way known for my appreciation of any non-classical music, but I would have to admit to finding the "organ" interlude in "Close to the edge" a thrilling moment. Sad perhaps, but honest. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hi Another Wakeman fan! Good! Have you heard "Live at Lincoln" - mainly recorded on the organ. Not great music by any means, but very pleasant listening. Rick has frequently used organ in his recordings - right back to "The 6 Wives of Henry 8th" in the 1970's - and even had Mander's build him a small travelling organ (2 manuals controlling 3 extended ranks of pipes). Every Blessing Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Roffensis Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 Console pictures - superb, worth a thousand words as they say. Re. Rick Wakeman, I'm in no way known for my appreciation of any non-classical music, but I would have to admit to finding the "organ" interlude in "Close to the edge" a thrilling moment. Sad perhaps, but honest. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes, but sad? better that than be so far ........... close to the edge is very good, and the organ part was done at St Giles Cripplegate, as was the "Six Wives"......good technique he has too. That would make many a organist jealous! R Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DouglasCorr Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 I thought I would come up with a couple of console designs to stevebournias specifications. As you can see it offers plenty of resources and duplexing, a feature in Mr Bournias's design. http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e72/leeb...rniasorgan1.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e72/leeb...rniasorgan2.jpg Comments welcome! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Only one pedal board really restricts what one can play...and these days a quarter tone key and pedal board is just about essential. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vox Humana Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 You missed another trick, Lee: you can get loads more toe pistons in at each end of the pedal board! http://www.davidhegarty.com/images/photos/Harrah_organ.jpg (And just for the record, this console's real!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lee Blick Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 Goodness me! Stop! Stop! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Childs Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 Goodness me! Stop! Stop! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I thought this deserved some further investigation , since the surroundings in which the console was photographed did not seem to indicate a building that needed that large an instrument, but apparently it only has 456 stops! (Well stop knobs to be strictly truthful) Anyway here are a few stats to make some of you very jealous!!! "Designed and built by Allen Harrah, a West Virginia native, the symphonic organ at Forrest Burdette is a six manual and pedal organ with 456 draw knobs positioned along the console's walls. With more than 2,600 pipes and more than 20,000 digital pipe notes, the pipes must be "tuned" a couple of times a year because the room temperature directly affects the tone of the pipes. "You have to have a consistent temperature. They are delicate in that respect," Gatewood said. And with 10,400 watts of audio power and 148 speaker systems, the organ music swells and rolls in a huge volume of sound that envelops the auditorium much like a movie theater." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Morley Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 ...With more than 2,600 pipes... So there's a 40 stop 3 manual in there somewhere?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Childs Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 For a different perspective on this organ look at the photo to be found at this location . http://www.herald-dispatch.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article? BAC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vox Humana Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 I think that link should be: http://www.herald-dispatch.com/apps/pbcs.d.../602070316/1004 I liked the quote by Allen Harrah that he funded the organ because he "wanted to give something back to the community"! http://www.putnamlive.com/FORRESTBURDETTEORGAN.html How many English churches have such munificent benefactors? Er... um... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tubular_pneumatic Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 >> “It’s special because it is truly a major concert because of its six manuals and equivalence of 389 ranks,” << Wrong! It is not the equivalent of 389 ranks, it is fake fake fake! I wonder what the floor area of that Church is for all of that "organ". - Nathan Notorious tubular-pneumaticist and pipe-onlyist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MusingMuso Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 >>“It’s special because it is truly a major concert because of its six manuals and equivalence of 389 ranks,” << Wrong! It is not the equivalent of 389 ranks, it is fake fake fake! I wonder what the floor area of that Church is for all of that "organ". - Nathan Notorious tubular-pneumaticist and pipe-onlyist <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ===================== It may be fake, but I expect the console alone would keep an organ-builder well in the black for a few years! I see they mentioned the Castro Theatre, in S.F. (San Fran's Disco!) where there is the superb Ed Stout masterpiece WurLitzer....I swoon when I hear that on CD. I swoon wonderfully....... However, my favourite quote, from one of the articles is the following:- “It can do everything from being electrifying to purring like a little kitten. It does it all.” Well, "aye" once had an amplifier stack which did EXACTLY the same thing! MM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dulciana Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 This photograph sums up the vulgarity of it all I think. http://www.davidhegarty.com/images/photos/041107-Harrah2.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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