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equus_peduus
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As I recall, there were a few more photos that I ended up rejecting (didn't want to overdo the photos for this post) - I can check and see which ones I ended up skipping over (I think at least a couple were stained glass windows other than the rose window, as well as some more pictures of the organ's insides), and put some up on my blog. If anybody wants.
eta: Also, can do higher resolution versions of any of the pictures I did send in.
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| Re: Organ of Eglise-Notre-Dame-la-Dalbade ll & lll guest posts equus [message #50741 is a reply to message #50738 ] |
Sat, 14 July 2012 21:56 |
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equus_peduus
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Yes. It was fabulous, but not as cool as actually getting to see the instrument up close and personal. (and of course I went - I figured with a last sentence like that, SOMEBODY would ask... ;P)
The St Sernin organ's manual is enclosed in a room on the organ loft - dunno what the inside looks like, though the door appeared to be padded on the inside - and the organist narrated his music choices and why they were interesting with a microphone from within.
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–editor, who has taken forever to do her job. Well, I wanted to get three guest posts out of this fabulous effort and long division [sic] is not my thing . . .
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lol. But the post did get up eventually, which was the whole point. And I wasn't given a word count requirement, so I didn't pre-split it. If I ever do another guest post, I'll know 
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those metal CURLS? Yeep.
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I know. Apparently they preferred tuning those pipes to the wood ones...
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The pipes! And the other pipes! And then those other pipes!
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And we could only see fewer than half of them... there was a whole other side of the organ that would be hard for more than one person to get into, so we didn't go. And some of the pictures that didn't come out at all (there not being all that much bright light suitable for photography in there) were the pipes behind us, and above us, and otherwisely pretty much all around us...
I don't have tons more photos, as it turns out - darkness making it difficult to take good pictures - but I'll try to post them on my personal blog in the next couple days and give you all a link for anybody who cares.
I'm glad people enjoyed it - I thought this was such a fabulous experience that I wanted to share it with more than the handful of friends and relatives (mostly relatives) who read my personal blog, and I thought this forum was a good place to do it
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| Re: Organ of Eglise-Notre-Dame-la-Dalbade ll & lll guest posts equus [message #50753 is a reply to message #50688 ] |
Sun, 15 July 2012 16:44 |
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I am so envious; that organ sounds (pun not intended!) incredible. Also having flashbacks to time spent as a teenager, holding down a note while someone was up in the organ loft doing the tuning. And the next note, and the next, and... (Made it much easier on that someone than him climbing down, holding a note down with a pencil wedged over it and under the two adjacent keys, climbing back up, lather rinse repeat ad infinitum.)
Also, interesting about reading music on three staves - that's how I learned (on a much much smaller home spinet organ with only one octave of pedals) when I was 7. Still have a piano, occasionally play, but there's something missing... (oh, and then there's choral music - at least four staves for singers, possibly more for soloists or double chorus or whatever, and two or three for piano/organ accompaniment.)
Ghods, it's been a long time...
--g, nostalgic
Still will I harvest beauty where it grows... -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
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| Re: Organ of Eglise-Notre-Dame-la-Dalbade ll & lll guest posts equus [message #50754 is a reply to message #50744 ] |
Sun, 15 July 2012 16:50 |
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| Diane in MN wrote on Sat, 14 July 2012 21:01 |
For anyone interested in a friendly treatment of organ construction, Jane Langton's mystery Divine Inspiration involves an organ restorer and provides a lot of information about the location-specific nature of building pipe organs.
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Yes! (another Langton fan, yay!) (I was certain I have them all, and have re-read them at least twice, but I actually found one that I didn't have, about three weeks ago. Better than Christmas! *grin*)
Still will I harvest beauty where it grows... -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
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| Re: Organ of Eglise-Notre-Dame-la-Dalbade ll & lll guest posts equus [message #50755 is a reply to message #50741 ] |
Sun, 15 July 2012 16:57 |
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| equus_peduus wrote on Sat, 14 July 2012 18:56 |
I don't have tons more photos, as it turns out - darkness making it difficult to take good pictures - but I'll try to post them on my personal blog in the next couple days and give you all a link for anybody who cares.
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Yes, please! (I swear, seeing those photos of pipes inside an organ loft was just about like what I imagine someone's addictive fix would be like.)
Side note: the curl in the metal pipes is easier to sort of micro-adjust than the stopper/slider mechanism in the wood pipes. Or so I was told, aeons ago...
Still will I harvest beauty where it grows... -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
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| Re: Organ of Eglise-Notre-Dame-la-Dalbade ll & lll guest posts equus [message #50763 is a reply to message #50753 ] |
Mon, 16 July 2012 00:54 |
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equus_peduus
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| glinda wrote on Sun, 15 July 2012 13:44 |
I am so envious; that organ sounds (pun not intended!) incredible. Also having flashbacks to time spent as a teenager, holding down a note while someone was up in the organ loft doing the tuning. And the next note, and the next, and... (Made it much easier on that someone than him climbing down, holding a note down with a pencil wedged over it and under the two adjacent keys, climbing back up, lather rinse repeat ad infinitum.)
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(oh, and then there's choral music - at least four staves for singers, possibly more for soloists or double chorus or whatever, and two or three for piano/organ accompaniment.)
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I did sing in choir a bit in junior high and high school - still less dizzying, because you still only really have to pay attention to the line that pertains to you, unless you care about what somebody else is doing. I've also played viola off a score when we didn't have sheet music for individual parts - same deal. I still maintain that being able to read three staves a once is crazy I'm impressed with anybody who can do it Interesting that it sounds like your first primary instrument was organ though - most people only have access to pianos.
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| Re: Organ of Eglise-Notre-Dame-la-Dalbade ll & lll guest posts equus [message #50814 is a reply to message #50763 ] |
Thu, 19 July 2012 20:29 |
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| equus_peduus wrote on Sun, 15 July 2012 21:54 |
I still maintain that being able to read three staves at once is crazy I'm impressed with anybody who can do it Interesting that it sounds like your first primary instrument was organ though - most people only have access to pianos.
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Not even sure why we had an organ and not a piano; the (spinet) piano was acquired when I was 15, and I still have it.
I sometimes say that I have spoken words as my second language, and music is the first; sightreading always came very easily for me. (Still does, it's the technique that's no longer what it was, thanks to various things including what other countries call ME, and to lack of daily practice for the last few decades, even before the ME ate my life.)
| equus_peduus wrote on Sun, 15 July 2012 21:54 |
And I put up just about every picture that came out halfway clear that had pipes in it, just for you Smile
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*appreciates*
Still will I harvest beauty where it grows... -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
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| Re: Organ of Eglise-Notre-Dame-la-Dalbade ll & lll guest posts equus [message #50820 is a reply to message #50744 ] |
Thu, 19 July 2012 23:05 |
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| Diane in MN wrote on Sat, 14 July 2012 23:01 |
For anyone interested in a friendly treatment of organ construction, Jane Langton's mystery Divine Inspiration involves an organ restorer and provides a lot of information about the location-specific nature of building pipe organs.
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Another fictional work involving the insides of an organ is the totally delightful YA work Colonel Sheperton's Clock (US edition retitled The Mystery of the Colonel's Clock) by Philip Turner. It's a very fun romp through the lives of some not particularly angelic choirboys in the north of England, and well worth searching out.
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