Hello Everyone

Great Pasquale, I am happy and thank you for the compliments. It is nice to have an organist here on the forum, so I hope you will participate actively in the forum discussions. All this to give you an official welcome among us...

Dear Pasquale,

Thank you for the compliments and welcome among us.

Long live the organists! Welcome.

Thanks everyone 😆

Dear Pasquale,

at first I had a startle, thinking that you too were, like me, from Turin!

The organ is, along with the guitar and the piano, my love. Unfortunately, when I left the guitar and decided, now an active young man, to start studying a new instrument, I already had a piano in the house and stinginess prevailed.

Joking aside, it is not said that my next instrument won't be exactly yours.

In any case, I am linking two videos on the subject as a greeting, with an invitation to tell us about your beautiful instrument!

Canon in D major by Pachelbel (PWC 37, T. 337, PC 358) - Johann Pachelbel

and the so-called

Air on the G string, from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major (BWV 1068) - Johann Sebastian Bach

For this latter one, I am also including the beautiful comment from the person who uploaded it.

"Today I show you my organ as seen from the church. One of the most beautiful images that circulates daily in my mind."

"A spaceship coming from other eras, when hardships did not prevent men from building wonders like this intended for us posterity."

"It is quite high up, clinging to the vault of the right nave. The organist has a tiny but comfortable station right under the tallest central pipe. It measures about 6 meters and blows air scented with fine wood, even though it is made of metal. The church can only be glimpsed through a rearview mirror. You go up via a narrow spiral staircase where no two steps are equal. But for now, I do it with my eyes closed."

"You peek out like this from the small door on the left while looking."

"I always say that for safety I should keep a rope because when jumping down I don't feel... ready. But I never use it 😆."

"The grandeur of the facade is astonishing compared to the narrowness of the organist's niche (in which, however, I have been for ages)."

"It is a mechanical organ and therefore all measurements are conditioned by the need to reach, with as direct a command as possible, each of the 1423 pipes, in addition to the various stops. Imagine the effort to build it in the 1800s with the tools of that time!"

Well, see you soon

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Dearest, thank you for the enthusiasm.

Eh.... Turin is a city full of beautiful instruments (I know well in particular the instruments present at S. Maria Ausiliatrice and the organ of my friends Pinchi in Colle Don Bosco). Not to mention that in that city there existed one of the greatest Italian organ builders to whom the country owes progress in this field, namely Carlo Veggezzi Bossi.

Thank you for the videos, I will try to reciprocate with something very worthwhile. Playing an organ, especially if ancient, and feeling it "breathing" under your hands and feet is always a transcendental experience. Mixing registers like a painter mixes colors on a palette is very rewarding.

Anyway, I don't think this is the right place, where an entirely different instrument, equally important to me, is discussed, to tackle organ studies. (and besides, I just arrived, I can't exactly go attracting scoldings from the moderators right away.... 🙂 ).

I am linking anyway for you and anyone who would like to know more, the website relating to organ days, meetings of enthusiasts of instruments within the national territory, of which I am a part.

http://www.organday.it/

You will find some of the organized days with photo galleries of places and instruments and links to the YouTube channel in the multimedia section where you can hear some of them. I am never in them because I am the official photographer..... 😆

Dear Pasquale, even though the site is called Piano Concerto, music is discussed here; therefore, in my capacity as site administrator, I assure you that no moderator will say anything to you if you wish to enlighten us on an instrument as ancient as it is wonderful as the organ, ranging from its history to construction techniques and the works dedicated to it.

Greetings and compliments for the beautiful sensitivity and dedication you devote to your instrument.

Hi Pasquale! I think I'm a little late but ... Welcome!!

Being from Turin (I emphasize, it is a very beautiful city), I know how many beautiful instruments there are here... I also know the organ of S. Maria Ausiliatrice and, having my godfather as an organist and organ technician, I tried it once, a few years ago... it's not bad, there's no two ways about it. 😆

in any case, as our Simone has already anticipated, don't worry, here we can talk about all areas of music.

My godfather also says that very frequently the organist knows their instrument better than the pianist. And to think that probably the pianist, especially with a grand piano, should be taken at least once to look at what is "beyond the keyboard", they should be able to "see better" the soul of their instrument, compared to the organist, who instead sometimes is separated from the pipes, in a separate console ... 🙂

In any case, I think we will have much to talk about... 😉

That's all for now and enjoy your stay! Bye!

Thanks again!

Then I will gladly tackle some topics on the subject (limited to my meager knowledge) if there is an opportunity and curiosity.

For those interested, we are restoring (I am doing very little, truth be told) an instrument identical to this one that differs from other "normal" ones

It is a true home organ and in Italy to this day there is only one, and it dates from 1904!!!

Don't mind the computer present, which is an adaptation that has nothing to do with it. You can also see the inside of the instrument and some mechanical details.

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Gentlemen, greetings to all.

I am not opening a new introductory post because I would be creating a duplicate since, in reality, I have already been registered on this wonderful site since its beginnings, even if I then literally disappeared from circulation due to problems that I do not want to describe here (it would be pathetic) and which led me to somewhat abandon the world of music and the piano in particular. Consequently, I also stopped using the internet and this forum in particular.

So, I greet everyone from here.

With this new post, I am therefore first of all APOLOGIZING TO THE ADMINISTRATORS, SIMONE AND PAOLO, who with great availability and cordiality had welcomed me by giving me the possibility to write also about my principal instrument, which is the pipe organ.

I hope that, like the prodigal son of the gospel, you will likewise welcome me again.

I have thought long and hard about whether it was worth returning. It would have been easy to hide behind a different nickname and do it anyway; instead, I want to be myself, the person I was, with everything that entails.

I also apologize to those who had begun to follow my posts on the pipe organ with interest. I hope, if there is interest and if the old post still exists, to continue.

I wish everyone a pleasant stay on this site.

Pasquale.

Good to see you again Pasquale, I have read many of your old posts

pasquale wrote:

With this new post, I am therefore first of all APOLOGIZING TO THE ADMINISTRATORS, SIMONE AND PAOLO, who with great availability and cordiality had welcomed me, giving me the possibility to write also about my principal instrument, which is the pipe organ.

I had also read something, welcome back

I am killing the "Fat Calf"!!!!! Welcome back, welcome back, oh Prodigal Son, for two reasons: both because it is a pleasure to hear that your problems are overcome and secondly because we missed your participation.