#organbuilding

This morning I received a message from my colleague organist saying that her student is enjoying playing my Prelude from the Mass for the 4th Sunday in Lent. He now wants to play entire cycle. When I asked

This organ stop has a warm character but the bottom octave sounded too weak. So the organbuilder today had to reinforce it by voicing as well as tuning.

Listen how my friend Paulius was pressing the keys and organbuilder Antanas Sauklys was tuning small Waldflöte 2' pipes. It's a piercing high-pitched sound so if you are very sensitive, turn down the volume

It was interesting to observe organbuilder Antanas Sauklys do the voicing of Prästant 4 stop. He blew on the pipe, listened to how it sounded and worked with his tool to perfect it. Organists Indre Gerikaite

Organ builder Antanas Sauklys advised me not to record the sounds of this organ yet because it hasn't been tuned but I think it was a historical occasion. I said, "Imagine if a hundred years from

When I came to my friend's Paulius church today, they were getting ready to tune some pipes. But first they needed to check the tuning of octave C pipes. Organ builder Antanas Sauklys had a tuner and organist