JoLi organ, music samples

Here a few samples of what the organ sounds like, using my arrangements of various Midis found on the 'net.
The 2004 recordings were taken with an artificial head microphone as described in my article 'Economical audio recording' and are coded in 56 kb/s mp3.
The 2005 recordings instead use a pair of large diaphragm condenser cardioid mikes (JJlabs C010B) and are 128 kb/s encoded. 'Rose garden' in a reverberating staircase hall, the following three in the more damped studio where the organ was built and resides. The late recordings include leading and trailing noises from the service machinery, starting with the click of the bellows motor circuit breaker, running up of the motor and the setting of register valves. After the music the motor is shut off and a final bang tells when blowing pressure is gone such that the bass drum beater slowly touches the drumskin.

Title
 Composer
 Duration
 Size
 Recorded
The lambs John Philip Sousa 1'56"
 0.80M Feb 2004
Proshanie slavjanki (the cossack's farewell to his girl)
 Vasili Agapkin 2'38"
 1.05M
 Feb 2004
I never promised you a rose garden Lynn Anderson, 1971
 3'04"
 2.80M
 Mar 2005
Michelle John Lennon & Paul McCartney 2'54"
 2.66M
 Mar 2005
Jalousie                   This is not the Gade tango. Please tell me!
3'54"
 3.57M
 Mar 2005
Puttin' on the Ritz Irving Berlin, 1930
 2'13"
 2.04M
 Mar 2005
La Traviata, Ouverture            

Giuseppe Verdi
 3'19"
 3.11M
 Nov 2005
Carmen, Gypsy dance
 Georges Bizet
 3'07"
 2.93M
 May 2006

artificial reverb
Danse Macabre
 Camille Saint-Saëns
 6'38"
 6.23M
 May 2006


Playing for the kids at  the Klastorp school in Stockholm. Photo by Susanne Kronholm for the magazine Vi, #20, 2004.