 The king of all instruments
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Mozart called the pipe organ: ”the king of all instruments.” Gilles Parenteau is a performing musician and instructor at the Selkirk College of Music in Nelson, BC. His love for pipe organ combined with serious innovation makes him a leader in what he does. Here, I've provided his website with an extraordinary video on the home page. Enjoy! http://gillesparenteau.com/
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um, idd like to see him on a all pipe organ. like this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFYANwrMqN4&feature=relatedHe is very good though. I just didnt care for the digital.
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I worked on the roof of a very old church years ago and to get on the roof I had to go through the pipe organ. It was cool to go on all the catwalks through all the pipes to get up to the roof. I had no idea how huge they were, I am still awe struck from it.
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I'm what you could call a pipe organ ******. I love them. I am classically trained and have done a couple of world-wide recognition performances with the National Theater Organ Society. I've played some pretty sweet organs in this country. One of the biggest I've played was an organ with 98 ranks of pipes...and there's a lot of pipes to a rank.
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I can tell you it absolutely amazed me at the size of what you don't see! The pipes took up almost as much space as the chapel.
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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I get goosebumps every time I hear Toccata and Fugue in D Minor on a real pipe organ.
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yep, a Church the wife and I attended some years ago had a massive organ....the sound was awesome
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He must have been a fan of Tony Banks from Genesis! He even looks like him a bit!  Same kind of setup, except the foot pedals.... We often talk about drummers need to have 4 independent limbs, he has too! Thanks Keith.
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must not make pipe or organ jokes 
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 Too funny!!
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I'm what you could call a pipe organ ******. I love them. I am classically trained and have done a couple of world-wide recognition performances with the National Theater Organ Society....
One day, Chris I gotta hear you play. And I don't mean in a video or an mp3, but in person!! I look forward to that!
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Only way to hear a real pipe organ is in person, I doubt the true sound could be captured in a recording.
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
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3/4 Throttle
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I get goosebumps every time I hear Toccata and Fugue in D Minor on a real pipe organ.
Holy cow....Vincent Price in the Phantom of the Opera Batman!
My Grandad (God rest his soul) loved to play that particular piece on his Hammond electric on Halloween for us kids growing up. I still remember him playing it on the pipe organ in the (formerly RLDS) Church of Christ World Headquarters & Auditorium once by invitiation as a kid. It is by and far much better on a real pipe organ. 
Karl
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Only way to hear a real pipe organ is in person, I doubt the true sound could be captured in a recording.
Iron Butterfly may dispute that 
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 I'm reading through this thread thinking of all the tulips on an organ jokes I've ever heard and then I read this.
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Thought this post was about me. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQZmCJUSC6g
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Only way to hear a real pipe organ is in person, I doubt the true sound could be captured in a recording.
Iron Butterfly may dispute that
You're not old enough to know who Iron Butterfly is!
Fidelis et Fortis
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Only way to hear a real pipe organ is in person, I doubt the true sound could be captured in a recording.
Iron Butterfly may dispute that
You're not old enough to know who Iron Butterfly is!
Ooops, I forgot the ... 
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Iron Butterfly!, when 8-track tape was at the the apex (no pun intended) of high fidelity stereo.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
H. L. Mencken
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Iron Butterfly!, when 8-track tape was at the the apex (no pun intended) of high fidelity stereo.
And every drummer tried to emulate Bushy's performance in In a gadda da vida (yours truly included)
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Only way to hear a real pipe organ is in person, I doubt the true sound could be captured in a recording.
Iron Butterfly may dispute that
You're not old enough to know who Iron Butterfly is!
Ooops, I forgot the ...
you're just mad 'cause when that song came out you thought all those dern fool ass kids were listening to the devil music!
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