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Here's a recording of me playing the overture to Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Phantom of the Opera" on my Conn 720.
You may need a subwoofer to hear the bass pedals.

You may have been wondering why I haven't uploaded a whole slew of organ videos since aquiring this antique. Well, here's why:

I procrastinated on recording videos just because I was having too much fun playing the organ. It looks and sounds awesome with the pipe speakers and everything. I only recorded two performances on it (this is one of them).

AND THEN THE VACUUM TUBES WENT BAD.

And when a vacuum tube goes bad, the thing that it's powering begins to sound terrible. And I mean terrible. The keys started getting out-of-tune, theres a hissing crackle in the speakers, you have to crank the volume up to full just to hear the notes, and the sounds themselves are scratchy and crackly. And it gets worse every time I turn it on.

Not quite the sound I would like to share with you guys.

I called over a tube specialist and he found eight bad tubes in the back of the organ, and the cost for all eight will ring up to around $100.

However, I am now toying with the thought of refitting this organ with modern, MIDI equipment and installing the program "Hauptwerk" into it. This, unfortunately, is a couple thousand dollars more expensive than the vacuum tubes.

So, its really undecided as of yet as to whats going to happen to the organ.

Sorry this isn't my best performance, but since this is one of the only videos I managed to record before the organ went to hell in a hamsterball, this is all I have to offer.