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unusual facts about church organ



All Saints Church, Barrowby

Before the early 19th century a church band played for All Saints' services, after which a church organ was installed.

Bragernes Church

The church organ has 38 votes and was built in romantic style of the Danish organ builder Carsten Lund.

Frauenfriedenskirche

The organ of the Frauenfriedenskirche was built by the company Siegfried Sauer in Höxter in 1996.

Humanahum

The song was the first in the history of the contest to open with a church organ, reminiscent of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" by Iron Butterfly.


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Electronic organ

The first full electronic church organ was built in 1939 by Jerome Markowitz, founder of the Allen Organ Company, who had worked for years to perfect the replication of pipe organ sound through the use of radio tube based oscillator circuitry.

Michael Bywater

He played church organ with Gary Brooker for the 'Within Our House' charity concert, which was also released on CD.

Organ recital

While world-famous organist Frederick Swann was in residence at First Congregational Church in Los Angeles between 1998 and 2001, where he supervised the improvement of the organ to rival that of his former church, the Crystal Cathedral, to become the largest church organ in the world (with over 20,000 pipes), he instituted a music festival called "Organ Alive!" that featured organ recitals and concerts, collaborating with many renowned musicians to revive Los Angeles' organ music culture.

Othello Ballet Suite/Electronic Organ Sonata No. 1

The basic material for Electronic Organ Sonata was recorded October 1, 1968 on the grand church organ of Grorud Church, Oslo.

Skott Freedman

A bonus track of The Cranberries' "Zombie" also appeared on the cover album, which was recorded on a church organ in Charleston, SC.

St. Andrew's, Blackrock

The church organ was installed in 1912 with half of the money donated by Andrew Carnegie (a Scottish-American industrialist, businessman, entrepreneur and a major philanthropist).

Stapleton, Shropshire

The church organ is among the top six hundred in the country and there is a small tapestry piece in the nave said to have been worked by Mary, Queen of Scots.

The Union Chapel Concert

David Jackson and Hugh Banton were unannounced guests and played a Soundbeam-medley and a Samuel Barber Adagio for strings on the church organ respectively.