What's Your Favorite Organ?

talasiga · Post by **talasiga** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 6:02 pm

Cranberry wrote:Penis.

(Am I the only person who would say that? Yes. Am I the only person who immediately thought that? No.)

I am a vegetarian myself.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 6:05 pm

talasiga wrote:
Cranberry wrote:Penis.

(Am I the only person who would say that? Yes. Am I the only person who immediately thought that? No.)
I am a vegetarian myself.

Me, too.

Cork · Post by **Cork** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 6:15 pm

Denny wrote:http://youtube.com/watch?v=BJCTrolF3CY
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KgZSnAkQc4c

A wall of amplifiers! Man, that brings me back!

I did several years at electric guitar, until the early seventies.

Flute, however, before, during, and since, then.

scheky · Post by **scheky** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 6:18 pm

Cranberry wrote:Penis.

(Am I the only person who would say that? Yes. Am I the only person who immediately thought that? No.)

Very likely, I'd have used a much less clinical word for it.

crookedtune · Post by **crookedtune** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 7:13 pm

Cranberry wrote:Penis.

(Am I the only person who would say that? Yes. Am I the only person who immediately thought that? No.)

Best to stay FAR away from this man!

Ronbo · Post by **Ronbo** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 8:05 pm

crookedtune wrote:
Cranberry wrote:Penis.

(Am I the only person who would say that? Yes. Am I the only person who immediately thought that? No.)
Best to stay FAR away from this man!

Man?

Aanvil · Post by **Aanvil** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 8:29 pm

Cranberry wrote:Penis.

(Am I the only person who would say that? Yes. Am I the only person who immediately thought that? No.)

Well... I confess I thought of that too but perhaps not quite in the same context.

This is my weapon

This is my gun

This ones for killin'

This ones for fun!

Er... that would be mouth organ to you soldier.

Carry on.

No please... carry on.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 8:39 pm

I certainly enjoyed my visit to St. Joseph's Church, in
Luzon, where I heard this Bamboo Organ.

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 9:02 pm

Caroluna · Post by **Caroluna** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 9:14 pm

cowtime wrote:pipe

Me too!

I had organ lessons in high school. My instructor was a young college student who lived in a house that had been built around a pipe organ

One time she invited me to her house and I got to play the pipe organ for a while. The thing was like an airplane cockpit, and what a magnificent sound!!! Great acoustics too--the room it was in was half the size of a basketball court.

While I was trying out the different stops something got stuck, making a nasal whiney "ehhhhhh" sound. We ducked through a small doorway into the pipe room, which was dark and cramped, like a forest full of tree trunks. There were pipes of different colors, things with trumpet bells on the end...we finally found the stuck note, it was a "vox humana" pipe.

I stopped playing the organ after high school but it was an unforgettable experience.

ElPollo · Post by **ElPollo** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 7:27 am

Cork wrote: If ever there could be a "classic" electric organ, indeed! To hear one, however, you'll need to go back in musical time, more than a few decades.

A great example of this is Santana's version of Black Magic Woman.

(If you listen to rock/pop music from late 60's/early 70's with an organ sound in it, it's most likely a hammond b-3)

FJohnSharp · Post by **FJohnSharp** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 7:51 am

Thank you Wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_speaker

For the record, I am old enough to have lived in the psychedelic sixties with Steppenwolf and Deep Purple and Iron Butterfly etc. I just never knew the names of organs. It's one of the failings of my youth.

crookedtune · Post by **crookedtune** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 11:14 am

Same here. Time to get organized.

rhulsey · Post by **rhulsey** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 11:22 am

This is a great clip of Ethel Smith playing "Tico Tico" on a Hammond B3 - something she made herself famous doing. The clip is from the movie "Bathing Beauty" of the 40's, with Esther Williams and Red Skelton.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TA9qlWyk-7Q

Reg

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 7:29 pm

Caroluna wrote:
cowtime wrote:pipe
Me too!

I had organ lessons in high school. My instructor was a young college student who lived in a house that had been built around a pipe organ One time she invited me to her house and I got to play the pipe organ for a while. The thing was like an airplane cockpit, and what a magnificent sound!!! Great acoustics too--the room it was in was half the size of a basketball court.

While I was trying out the different stops something got stuck, making a nasal whiney "ehhhhhh" sound. We ducked through a small doorway into the pipe room, which was dark and cramped, like a forest full of tree trunks. There were pipes of different colors, things with trumpet bells on the end...we finally found the stuck note, it was a "vox humana" pipe.

I stopped playing the organ after high school but it was an unforgettable experience.

My elder daughter dated a pipe organist for a while during her single days. He was in the process of getting a pipe organ put in his house.
Hmmmm, that was about the time they split.......

Playing the pipe organ is truly an amazing and humbling experience.