On 9/13/2018 at 9:18 PM, AdamSmith said:

 

Listening, notice beneath the notes from the pipes, the fascinating clicking of the key actions to the pipe-sounding mechanisms.

Quite loud here.

To repeat...

 

 

[Repeat.]

https://www.andrerieu.com/en

22 hours ago, AdamSmith said:

 

Lovely...  Don't understand what the conductor is saying in German at the start but he seems to be quite a character.

5 hours ago, BigK said:

Lovely...  Don't understand what the conductor is saying in German at the start but he seems to be quite a character.

Actually in Dutch, I think.

(Formally defined as ‘speaking German with a potato in your mouth.’   )

 

 

Genuinely uproarious. 

Makes one appreciate the good old days.

 

 

 

Sayonara.

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21 hours ago, AdamSmith said:

 

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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/impeachment-trump/580468/

On 10/10/2018 at 8:02 PM, AdamSmith said:

 

Again: Louis & Lara! 

 

Repeating...

 

 

Same piece, by different Highland Scotland corp.

 

Fuchsschwank German Fuchsschwanz German Noli me tangere Latin

In describing this unlikely “stop”, whose name comes from the German “fuchs” (fox), “schwanz” (tail), and “schwank” (joke), I could not possibly improve upon Wedgwood, whose entry reads as follows:

One of the strange accessories sometimes found in old German organs. A stop-knob bearing the inscription “Noli me tangere” (“Do not touch”) was attached to the console. As a reward for their curiosity, persons who, regardless of this injunction, touched the knob, thereby set free the catch of a spring, causing a huge foxtail to fly out into their faces. Sometimes the foxtail was simply attached to the stop knob. Having once drawn the tail out of the jamb, it was a matter of some difficulty to replace it. Meanwhile, the recalcitrant culprit was subject to the chaff of his comrades. There is a foxtail near the dwarf “Perkeo”, guarding the great Tun at Heidelberg Castle. St. Andrea, Erfurt; St. Gertrud, Hamburg.

Regarding Fuchsschwanz, Adlung writes: “Of course the name is not written on [the stopknob].”

See Vox Inaudita.

Examples

Noli me tangere; Domes St.Maria (cathedral), Riga, Latvia; Walcker 1883 (restored 1983). This is actually a Pedal to Great (not Great to Pedal!) coupler.

Bibliography

Adlung[1]: §149 Fuchsschwanz, §170 Noli me tangere. Wedgwood[1]: Fuchsschwanz. 
 

http://www.organstops.org/f/Fuchsschwanz.html

On 10/10/2018 at 8:02 PM, AdamSmith said:

 

Worth a repost. For a few of us at least. 

On 1/21/2019 at 8:15 PM, AdamSmith said:

Same piece, by different Highland Scotland corp.

 

Today’s Bernstein.