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tedrick

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Festival of Carols from Kings College - ultimate reed instrument
« on: December 24, 2009, 04:35:51 PM »

Listening to the massive organ music from Kings College Festival of Carols on the radio here in snowy Minnesota on Christmas Eve day -

wow! Those organs musicians make us fellow free reed players proud, don't they? Organs are beautiful, but we've got portability on our side.

Free reeds forever! Merry Christmas - here's to a music-filled 2010!

Ted
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Re: Festival of Carols from Kings College - ultimate reed instrument
« Reply #1 on: December 24, 2009, 05:02:51 PM »

Absolutely agree, "Jesus Christ the apple tree" always sends shivers up my back. This is the start of Christmas for me.
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Re: Festival of Carols from Kings College - ultimate reed instrument
« Reply #2 on: December 24, 2009, 05:35:05 PM »

Listening to the massive organ music from Kings College Festival of Carols on the radio here in snowy Minnesota on Christmas Eve day -

wow! Those organs musicians make us fellow free reed players proud, don't they? Organs are beautiful, but we've got portability on our side.

Free reeds forever! Merry Christmas - here's to a music-filled 2010!

Ted

Sorry to Bah! Humbug your reverie but it is questionable whether any of the pipe sets can be described as "Free Reed". Any pipe with a reed included is tuned by varying the position of the tuning bung or the pipe length.

As for portability, there are portative pipe organs but they are generally heavier than even a 120 bass P.A.

Did not like the descant arrangement on Once in Royal David's City but you have to admire the ability to take the starting note from a tuning fork and then having to remember that you must end up either on note or a semitone sharp or flat so that the organ can join in. The amazing thing is that it works.

Old but not so grumpy Bill.
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Re: Festival of Carols from Kings College - ultimate reed instrument
« Reply #3 on: December 24, 2009, 05:59:28 PM »

ok - see what you mean - maybe not a free reed instrument - but hey - they've got reeds and make music by sending air over the reeds and they have stops and registers - lots and lots of em....!

God Jul
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Re: Festival of Carols from Kings College - ultimate reed instrument
« Reply #4 on: December 24, 2009, 07:09:42 PM »

I always think of a load of giant recorders strapped together, when I see a pipe organ's guts. Truly magnificent.
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Re: Festival of Carols from Kings College - ultimate reed instrument
« Reply #5 on: December 25, 2009, 12:39:07 PM »

It's even better live.  ;D Every year, they hold a "dress rehearsal" for all the local secondary schools and I'm lucky enough to have gone twice over the last 5 years (missed this year because it clashed with my mocks  >:(). It really is quite a spectacular sound!
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