Beiträge von WillNillson

For anybody reading this:

Version 3.0 is now included in the original Filebase dropbox Link. I improved the tuning and made some other changes, thanks to PNEUMA's suggestions.

Hi Dave,

Thank you for your detailed friendly note. So nice of you to be interested in connecting.

Yes, I am using a Pseudonym on this website which is based upon my old email address of "willymcnilly@gmail.com"

which I would use for more anonymous communication. I am not a big "forum user" and do not want to be a regular poster on any forums. I have many other hobbies, interests/family commitments and cannot be always trying to connect online but I occasionally can.

It is nice meeting a Christian who believes in Jesus, on this board and somebody that shares similar interests. That's just lovely. It has been a lonely, lonely place to be in (musically speaking) since I left the church where I was a pianist for many years (I left the church for various reasons). I would love to collaborate with other musicians who have similar abilities/interests to create worship music for the Lord. But, I have not played in churches for 10 years now. Having started playing piano at age 5, I was involved in church from age 10. Diane Bish, The Billy Graham pianists/organists such as John Innes, Bill Fasig, Don Husted, Tedd Smith were inspirations to me. I recently (before Covid) was attending the Baptist church where I grew up playing piano/organ, but they have disposed of the organ and would not accept my donation to have the piano properly tuned and repaired.

It remains a tremendous frustration to me that the church is not interested any more in the "ministry of music". No longer are soloists, vocalists, instrumentalists used in hardly any of the churches that I've attended in Ontario - I've visited many, many churches. Just guitar/drums. Many of the older parishioners are always saying that they would like to hear piano/organ but the choice is not in their hands anymore - it's in those who run the church.

As a pianist I would accompany vocalists, instrumentalists, present organ/piano concerts with organist friends, accompany choir, accompany small singing groups, and I also did play in a band that would perform monthly. I would also play the organ about once a month myself, presenting offertories, communion music, hymn accompaniment for the congregation, postludes etc.

The church now appears to be very boxed in, in the way they think about music these days - wanting to connect with the culture. Worship to God should not be so limited! I'm not sure the reason for the disposal of the organ - is that discussed on this board? I've been following Paul Fey, Richard McVeigh online, it seems it's still appreciated in Europe! Hopefully these Hauptwerk/Grandorgue Organs will inspire an interest/revival? in the instrument?

As a career, I am very busy as a family dentist in Kitchener Ontario. I can afford, if necessary to purchase organs, but prefer to limit my hobby spending, due to many other financial/family spending commitments.

It seems like you are a nice friendly guy. Thank you so much for communicating and thanks for the suggestions and improvements on the composites. I'll have to investigate about the wind noise etc. I am not bothered if there is no blower, stop noise, key noise etc. and am happy to listen to the organ playing as if I were listening at a great distance within the cathedral. Is there a way to add a fake blower noise to the organs? I will have to study your posts about this, I'm still confused about your concerns on this. That's interesting about the Voix Celeste as the code for that was taken from the Billerbeck 6ch ODF - I did not alter any tuning on this stop. But thanks for your investigation on this.

You're very gifted to be able to play by ear! Playing by ear is something I cannot do, but I enjoy experimenting with harmonies, key changes and building the development of the melodic ideas of hymns. Writing piano/organ duets is very complex and challenging which I enjoy. My favourite kind of music is movie music, I very rarely listen to classical. Movie music is much more emotional, bombastic and exciting to me - music of John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, James Horner etc. etc. So my approach to organ playing/arranging is more orchestral in its thought process I suppose. Anyway so nice talking to you, let's keep connected that's for sure!

Paul.

Hi. Thanks for your appreciation and editing of my composite.

A little bit about myself - I was a church pianist and organist for over 20 years in Canada before churches starting eliminating - that is, physically removing the organ and piano from the local churches and replacing them with band - guitar/drums. I am not particularly interested in classical music but enjoy writing my own arrangements of hymns and modern Christian music on the piano and organ. I find some solace in continuing my ministry on youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnWmciNdR2_A8kb1aXV-rYw

I have created several other composites and will be at work gradually making more as my budget for organs is at present not very high. So thanks to all members who are creating GrandOrgue ODF's - much appreciated to avoid having to purchase Hauptwerk, and thanks to the original maker of the SP-GIGA framework 5 manual layout. I have just uploaded a Goch, Duren, Erfurt composite, and have created several others. The process is very concentration intensive but creates an interesting outcome. I hope to share more in the future.

I do not understand the problem with the .cmb file that you are mentioning. Should I be setting up the composites differently before I share them? Thanks for any advice.