Grand Chœur Dialogué by Eugène Gigout Using 2 or 3 Cathedral Organs in Dialogue

Can you play two or three instruments at once? Sure, why not!

St. Patrick's Cathedral in NYC technically has two (or three) historic Kilgen pipe organs throughout the cathedral containing about 9,000 pipes that can be played from the organ console.

The chancel organ is in the front of the cathedral to the left of the altar. From a whole city block away, I set the choir manual (the lowest keyboard) to control the chancel organ.

The main organ is the gallery organ, where I'm seated in the choir loft beneath the Fifth Avenue rose window. I use the second manual to control it.

And the nave organ, lurking out of sight in the high arches near the south transept, makes its first appearance with the "Triforium Trumpet" on the fourth manual. Toward the end of the piece, I throw in the nave organ's noisy "Jeux de Bombardes" into the mix.

The challenge recording this piece was the sound delay. Since the three organs are unevenly spaced out through the massive room- and since sound only travels at 1,000 feet per second- lining up the musical nanoseconds between the different instruments was a fun challenge.

I set up a microphone in the middle of the cathedral to capture the unique surround sound of the three organs. What you hear in the video is a lot different than what I heard in the choir loft. Enjoy!

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