Favorite instrument for a solo

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02 Jun 2010, 3:33 am

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the peterson beer bottle organ. sounds a bit like a calliope.

are they played by air passing across the tops? Tuned with different amounts of liquids?
It is so much fun learning about new and unusual instruments!

you might investigate oddmusic.com. some truly weird instruments there. anyways, the peterson beer bottle organ blows across the tops of beer bottles tuned by measured amounts of mineral oil [to avoid pitch change via evaporation of non-oil tuning fluids such as water].

ooh! Thanks for the link!

And mineral oil. How clever!

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03 Jun 2010, 1:05 am

a Conn model 653 theatre organ

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03 Jun 2010, 1:12 am

I had the great good fortune to get to see and hear this organ played:

http://www.organstoppizza.com/console.htm

The pizza was awful but the organ was amazing. And the guy who played it took requests. It was like being at a piano bar with the world's largest theater organ. They even had it set up to rise up out of the floor at the beginning of each show and sink back down in at the end. So cool.

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03 Jun 2010, 1:21 am

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the awful pizza i could have tolerated but for the fact it was criminally overpriced, to pay for the overhead, no doubt.
anyways, charlie is my favorite organ stop organist, he is the most expert at programming the yamaha MIDI rhythm unit they use on the organ.

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03 Jun 2010, 1:26 am

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And when I was there you *had* to buy the pizza whether you ate it or not. You paid at the door to get in and they gave you tokens for pizza and drinks.

I loved all the extra drums and things all along the wall that were controlled by the keyboard. The entire room was a musical instrument!

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03 Jun 2010, 2:31 am

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I loved all the extra drums and things all along the wall that were controlled by the keyboard. The entire room was a musical instrument!

the food is an afterthought, the main thing going on there is the aural and visual entertainment.
the organ itself has quite a tale to tell, as it is made up of components from the four corners of the country. the most recent additions are some 32' pipes from a defunct portland oregon pizza and pipes place.

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03 Jun 2010, 2:41 am

auntblabby wrote:

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I loved all the extra drums and things all along the wall that were controlled by the keyboard. The entire room was a musical instrument!

Yeah, I totally wasn't there for the food, that's for sure. It's just amazing to be in a room with one of those playing. Recordings don't begin to capture the sensations that accompany the music. It's a full-body experience.

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03 Jun 2010, 3:31 am

i just wish they had an organ stop pizza type of place where i live up in the wilds of washington state. the closest one burned down in 1999, in tacoma. arizona is just too damned hot for me.
for another full-body sound experience, you might try the audium in san francisco- an utterly unique sound venue.
i heard a recording a long time ago, where somebody took a touch-tone phone and played a melody with it, with some generic musical background.

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09 Jun 2010, 8:19 pm

how about solo Tuba?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y75ryZC8LB0[/youtube]
(not me!)

I am playing the middle movement from the Vaughan Williams Tuba Concerto in August, which will be good.

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09 Jun 2010, 10:42 pm

Euphonium. Such a beautiful smooth mellow sound.

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