Am Monday, 22. August 2011, 12:13:55 schrieb David Kastrup: > Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net> writes: > > On 08/19/2011 09:47 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > >> (Why does anyone care about a concerts for six organs at all? I'm > >> just a humble folk musician, but I know there are great organs around > >> where you don't need six organists playing at once. I can't imagine > >> there's any musical advantage of six small organs over a good, big > >> one...) > > > > There are things you can do with twelve hands, that you can't with two > > ... > > There are diminishing returns. There are rather few concerts for > several pianos, and those are easier to come by than several organs.
In this case, there are 6 organs, spaced about 30 meters apart throughout the whole church. This adds the whole space dimension to the experience. This allows you to create something like Dolby-surround and 3D audio effects on 18th century instruments! Haydn did something similar with his Echo double-string quartet, although that uses just two string quartets in two different rooms. Six organs can do a lot more. Cheers, Reinhold -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reinhold Kainhofer, reinh...@kainhofer.com, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/ * Financial & Actuarial Math., Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria * http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/, DVR: 0005886 * LilyPond, Music typesetting, http://www.lilypond.org _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
