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bohemian rhapsody played on carnival band organ- cool or what?
I think it is SO COOL! :star: 75%  75%  [ 6 ]
meh. :| 13%  13%  [ 1 ]
it's AWFUL! BOO!! :x 13%  13%  [ 1 ]
I'd rather have me a yummy ice cream! :chef: 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
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29 May 2015, 10:05 pm

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It is incredibly great! Too bad Freddy Mercury isn't around to appreciate it.

I wonder if he, as a child, was exposed to church organ during religious services? some of those melodies of his suggest that he was.


Mebe so. I know his family was Persian (what Iranian Americans call themselves), so I don't know what religious tradition - if any - he had been raised in.

was from Zanzibar, but raised in Zoroastrianism.


Okay.


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29 May 2015, 10:17 pm

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Okay.

:) I will have to research that religion to see what music they use.



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29 May 2015, 11:11 pm

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Okay.

:) I will have to research that religion to see what music they use.


I'm happy to know that Zoarastrianism - which had preceded both Christianity and Islam - is still alive. It had been well on it's way to being a world religion, popular in both the Roman and Persian empires, till the rise of Christianity. As it was primarily an eastern religion, amazing that it had survived Islam at all.


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29 May 2015, 11:18 pm

the main reason it stuck in my head is that in place of the 10 commandments, it has the 42 questions.



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29 May 2015, 11:20 pm

I read that Mercury was a big-time opera fan, so maybe that was some of his influence.

I like the carnival organ rendition, though I think they sound better outside with some distance.

The Dutch liturgical organ was well done; I think I prefer that rendering. It makes me wonder yet again why I sold off the liturgical organ I once had at home.



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29 May 2015, 11:27 pm

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I read that Mercury was a big-time opera fan, so maybe that was some of his influence. I like the carnival organ rendition, though I think they sound better outside with some distance. The Dutch liturgical organ was well done; I think I prefer that rendering. It makes me wonder yet again why I sold off the liturgical organ I once had at home.

you had an actual liturgical pipe organ in your house? :o



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30 May 2015, 12:25 pm

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you had an actual liturgical pipe organ in your house? :o


It was a Galanti digital. They were like the first to travel around and digitally capture pipes from famous organs, e.g. Schnitger, Cavalli-Coll, etc. (spelling). They separately captured each pipe in a rank, including the chiff, so that when a larger pipe would speak the sound would "blossom".

The console was 2-manual, full concave pedals with toe studs, AGO specs all around. It was a church-level installation with large external speaker cabinets that would give the house a proper shaking.

Why the heck I got rid of it I will never recall. I could not afford such an instrument now.



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30 May 2015, 1:32 pm

Marky9 wrote:
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you had an actual liturgical pipe organ in your house? :o


It was a Galanti digital. They were like the first to travel around and digitally capture pipes from famous organs, e.g. Schnitger, Cavalli-Coll, etc. (spelling). They separately captured each pipe in a rank, including the chiff, so that when a larger pipe would speak the sound would "blossom". The console was 2-manual, full concave pedals with toe studs, AGO specs all around. It was a church-level installation with large external speaker cabinets that would give the house a proper shaking. Why the heck I got rid of it I will never recall. I could not afford such an instrument now.

lucky you :wtg: I'd like to hear a "proper skaking" in a musical sense also.