by Fraser | Dec 9, 2020 | Fraser Gartshore, Music, Organs, YouTube Videos
What is Hauptwerk? Basically, it’s rather snazzy software used to control sampled pipe organs via Midi hardware. If you’ve ever used a VST instrument in Logic or Pro Tools, you’ll know what I mean. Hauptwerk is a very sophisticated piece of software...
by Fraser | Dec 8, 2020 | Fraser Gartshore, Music, Organs, YouTube Videos
Here we go! Finally, after many months of trying desperately to save up a Euro or two, I think it’s time to start my Hauptwerk organ console project. At the beginning of 2020, I had saved up a small sum of money to put aside to start buying components to build...
by Fraser | Nov 29, 2020 | Fraser Gartshore, Music, Organs, YouTube Videos
The 4/73 Rieger Organ in Marienstatt Abbey (Click here for Stoplist) The Abbey organ was inaugurated in in 1970 and is known for its special beauty of sound well beyond the borders of Germany. The organ was built by the Austrian organ builder Rieger and currently has...
by Fraser | Jul 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
What is it about Toccatas? Mention Widor or Boellmann, Gigout or Dubois and organists all over the world start recounting their stories of when they played XX’s Toccata in St. X in a concert on a wet Sunday afternoon in London/Paris/New York etc… Ask an...
by Fraser | Jun 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
Over the past 2 years or so, my wife and I have spent a fair amount of our time working on a project I started many moons ago, but never got around to realising – my YouTube channel “Fraser Gartshore” featuring the world of the organ – from...