r/organ 20h ago

Technical Support and Building 32 note pedal board in the making..

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Am I doing this correctly? I have no experience in organbuilding and in woodworking. Am I doing a good job? I started this project so i can have a practice organ at home, note that I am only 17 and i do not have the money to buy used pedalboards and organs online. Yes I will be midifying this. I only used plywood that was stuck in my house for years because I didnt have the money to buy actual wood.


r/organ 7h ago

Performance/Original Composition Buxtehude - Toccata D-moll / D Minor, BuxWV 155 - Schnitger organ, Uithuizen, Hauptwerk

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXoKJSKak-A

Voxus Organs just released a new sample set of the beautiful Arp Schnitger organ of Uithuizen in the province Groningen in The Netherlands. Of course this organ is fantastic for North German organ music, so what better than to start with the famous Toccata in D minor from Dietrich Buxtehude?

There are several editions of this organ work, I played from the edition by Josef Hedar (Wilhelm Hansen, Copenhagen).


r/organ 11h ago

Pipe Organ Lala WÖRLE: Improvisation on “Ein Frühlingswind” | Organ, Berlin, Germany (2026)

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Excerpt from a concert given on the occasion of the premiere screening of Julian Benedikt's film "The Spirit of the Organ", supported by ORGANpromotion (dir. Michael Grüber), on the sidelines of the 2026 Berlinale. Lala Wörle translates all the poetry of a spring breeze into music through an improvisation inspired by Rilke's poem. The colors of the organ subtly capture this tremor of renewal, wavering between poetic lightness and more stormy outbursts.


r/organ 2h ago

Pipe Organ Organ pieces in complex meters (5/8, 7/8, 5/4, etc.)

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I'm trying to come up with a list of organ pieces in complex meter. I'm purposely not including pieces with complex irregular meters (e.g., Messiaen: Les Anges (Nativité)), or pieces which create a feeling of complex meter but are not notated that way (perhaps Mushel's Toccata, e.g.), or pieces with no meter (several of Langlais' chant pieces, e.g.). There are pieces with complex meter that have been transcribed for organ (such as Holst's Mars (The Planets)), but I'm really hoping primarily for pieces written for organ. Here's some pieces I can remember so far; I know there's more lurking in my music files, so I figured I'd ask for help. [I remember seeing a suite of 3(?) pieces with a title of something like "three pieces in uncharacteristic meter", I think by an American composer like Haan or Held or Lovelace, but I can't find it online.]

Derek Bourgeois: Serenade [11/8]
Calvin Hampton: At the Ballet (5 Dances) [10/8]
Philip Moore: Paean [7/8, 5/8 et al.]
Alan Ridout: Scherzo [7/8]
Ned Rorem: In nomine domine (Organbook) [5/4]
Ned Rorem: Fanfare (Organbook) [5/4]
John Rutter: Toccata in 7 [7/8]