Not Exactly Folk, But... (Pipe Organs)

Subject: Not Exactly Folk, But...
From: GUEST,saulgoldie
Date: 16 Nov 22 - 07:25 AM

Saw this on the PBS News Hour last night. I dunno, church pipe organ? Folk? Maybe/maybe not. But awesome! To me, at least.

https://www.pbs.org/video/pipe-dreams-1668550367/

Saul

Subject: RE: Not Exactly Folk, But...
From: GUEST,maeve
Date: 16 Nov 22 - 08:26 AM

https://www.pbs.org/video/pipe-dreams-1668550367/

Subject: RE: Not Exactly Folk, But...
From: GUEST,saulgoldie
Date: 16 Nov 22 - 09:56 AM

Thanks, Maeve. I shoulda make a proper clickie.

Saul

Subject: RE: Not Exactly Folk, But... (Pipe Organs)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 Nov 22 - 03:20 PM

Fascinating. Once upon a time, I spent many hours working inside a pipe organ, and I've loved them ever since. St. John's Abbey in Minnesota has always been a center tor the study of Catholic church music, a Mecca for Catholic church musicians.

Subject: RE: Not Exactly Folk, But... (Pipe Organs)
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 17 Nov 22 - 09:45 AM

> a Mecca for Catholic church musicians

.... Do you wish to rephrase that, Joe :-) ?

Subject: RE: Not Exactly Folk, But... (Pipe Organs)
From: leeneia
Date: 18 Nov 22 - 01:09 PM

Why rephrase? It's a nice clear metaphor.

Subject: RE: Not Exactly Folk, But... (Pipe Organs)
From: leeneia
Date: 22 Nov 22 - 02:38 PM

I'd like to listen to the show, Saul, but when I click on it, I only get a news broadcast. But thanks for posting anyway.

Subject: RE: Not Exactly Folk, But... (Pipe Organs)
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 29 Nov 22 - 01:12 PM

I found this interesting.
A tour of the UK's Harrison & Harrison workshop during the construction of an organ for Christ Church Greenwich (Connecticut).

https://youtu.be/wmc8PX1eoqo?t=178s

Subject: RE: Not Exactly Folk, But... (Pipe Organs)
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 29 Nov 22 - 09:03 PM

SAUL - What a dear friend you are, to see pop-out of the advent calendar.

A college professor friend, organist instructor and blind, took the European tour, permitting him to play on the same keyboards of the greats with the same cathedral resonance. It was a highlight in his later years ... and they allowed him to breakaway from the tour for 36 hours with his NL friends.

I have an ache to return to the pipe-organ I knew 50 years ago in a marble mauselium.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle
Thanks for checking in ... it makes things less lonely out on the steeple.