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In Reply to: RE: The most complicated instrument to use or learn?..... posted by wangmr on August 11, 2014 at 07:09:55
A four-manual pipe organ plus pedals and a huge variety of stops and mixtures and coouplers and expression aids is a candidate for the most complicated of instruments.
Indeed, before the advent of automated telephone switching exchanges, large electromechanically controlled pneumatic pipe organs were the most complicated machines ever built.
That said, you press down an organ key, and unless the organ needs repair or tuning, you always get the right note!
AFAIK, the hardest instruments to get a reliably good sound out of in terms of just the tone of the note and no odd noises, are in the double-reed family: Oboe, Cor Anglais, and Bassoon, and the larger variants of the Bassoon.
JM
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In the 1980s, I attended many, many jazz concerts at the Paramount
Theatre in Denver, Colorado. At that time it had a fully operable
full sized theatre organ. Whenever Dick Hyman was playing the concert,
he would always play 2 or 3 tunes on that organ right after intermission.
3 keyboards, godknows how many pedals and levers and what not that he
manipulated with ease to make that mechanical monster sound almost
heavenly! And, wonder of wonders, he could make it swing! I was always
amazed at his ability on that thing.
Fats Waller could also make a full size organ swing, and there are
recorded instances thereof.
If you want amazement, you should see Hector Olivera perform Flight of the Bumblebee on the pedals of the organ live. I was impressed. One of the world's best organist if you get the chance to see him.
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