today we have a percent over in the home of karo and how dogs they have one of the most wonderful collections of musical instruments that you've ever seen and we're going to be talking about some of the specialties that they have in their home how there's a wonderful musician carl is a wonderful music and to zeerust we're going to get to hear the things that are the passions of their life we are very pleased to have a very different kind of program for you today i have with me here karl rove and karl as you know from other programs in the past is the president of the pipe organ foundation who rescues instruments and gives the new homes and churches and performance spaces but if you can imagine a home today where the pipe organ built specifically for that home there are a few of them but not many but back around the turn of the century this was not an uncommon thing financial means all over america had pipe organs built for them by companies like s t fair and both he and the grandfather and wonderful builder of all was the aeolian organ company they believe in pipe organs were known for their wonderful quality and their wonderful sound they had another feature to do that was quite interesting which we're going to show you in just a few minutes but first i'd like for you to be carl again and have him tell you a little bit about the history of this wonderful pipe organ that we're going to be seeing today karl thank you marc the pipe organ that you're going to be seeing and hearing today it was made in nineteen twenty seven it was sold to john mccallister of toronto and he lived on an estate in a big stone mansion in the bridle path area of toronto now this was an organ of moderate size just nine groups of pipes but with provision for more and provision for a chines harp and other musical making devices that would assist in terms of having a personal experience of music in the home mr mcallister was known to the aeolian company and he was known to some of the organise who cut roles for the aeolian company and the one who got the most roles was named archer gibson and archer cuts a role with mr mcallister sitting on the bench and we know in fact that's true because this is the role that was cut which is number three five eight four hail star of heaven and  d organist here archer gibson signed this role for mr mcallister and fact indicated that he had cut the role and made a recording of when mr mcallister was sitting on the bench with him but rules were really important because even if you were wealthy it didn't mean that you could play even something simple like mary had a little lamb and the roles did first evolve if you played the notes and you had to pull the stops or tell the organ what to play what kinds of sounds to play but by nine hundred sixteen you were able to have the organ do both of these and the system that you're going to see today one hundred twenty seven shows a perfection of that system i would imagine that a lot of our viewership didn't even know that there were such things as pipe organs that also play from these roles but first we'd like to introduce you to the instrument itself so let's walk over to the orgon well carl and i have moved over to the pipe organ console now you can actually see some parts up behind the console but the great majority of the pipes that play from this console are actually downstairs and they play out through these grates in the floor of the room now immediately you'll see that this organ console looks a little different than the normal pipe organ consuls you've seen on the show before but the main thing that exists that does not exist on any other organ console we've shown is the role play we lift up the music rack and we fall it back into a slot and it completely disappears let's take just a moment and hear this beautiful if i had only known how easy it would have been to learn that piece of music i played that bach fantasy in high school and it was the piece of music that i used to use my own dishes these to gain entrance into college but i worked for several years to learn and memorize that piece of music and just think how much easier we've been if i had had this role i would have had to spend all those hours interestingly enough i've noticed one thing  the playing and that was just very easy to tell that this was recorded before nineteen thirty because there was a revelation in the music world around nineteen thirty one when we discovered that it broke music and bach was of a rock composer that trills always went to the next higher half note rather than just a half step it went all the way up to the full step for a trip but before nineteen thirty zero we still were under the musical assumption that it broke period just as in the classic period drills were just a half step so on this rol fantasy we hear the trill executed as only a half step where later we learned that bach really meant for those drills to be a whole step so easy to tell but this well was recorded pretty nineteen thirty now we've got a real treat i'm a different kind of music altogether and not only is the organ on the plight of a group member call told you that this organ has chimes and the heart well he he neglected to tell you that this organ also has a grand piano as a matter of fact it has a beautiful steinway grand piano and this next roll you're going to hear the organ play but you're that was certainly amazing to hear the pipe organ and the piano playing together from the role and it shows you that even before the days of television and radio there was wonderful entertainment to be hand of course you had to be wealthy not everyone how hard core to their home but a lot of people did have smaller organs organs were very common around with turn of the century on if you've ever seen the smaller reed organs with the pedals that you pop those weren't all a lot of homes i know that my great grandmother had one of those in her home and we as children used to love to go to her house because we could pump the organ and play hands on it and sing with it it was a wonderful family experience i vi enjoyed hearing the roles play so a lot i like to sit down and try to play this organ as a given be a game and do something a little different as a matter of fact i think we'll start off with phone a little suite of music that i've put together that has some of the great themes of your house strauss r we have seen today but this is an orchestra well made by the same company that made the wonderful pipe organ we heard during the program it's also a player organ and it plays by so maybe one of these days w have a whole program on that as well but thank you so much for having us into your home today very well thank you for joining us on this episode of crescendo we hope to see you next time