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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is the great John Scott Whiteley performing Johann Sebastian Bach‘s Wedge Fugue in E minor, BWV 548 (8:24), on the Zacharias Hildebrandt organ in the Wenzelskirche in Naumburg, Germany (which Bach played and probably helped design).
The Wenzelskirche organ was Hildebrandt’s largest, featuring three manuals and pedal, fifty-three stops, and a thirty-two foot Posaunenbass pipe with a principal harmonic frequency of sixteen hertz. It was built in 1746 and restored from 1993 to 2000.
There a multiple cameras located inside the organ in this performance, some good shots of the thousands of pipes hidden inside the organ, and some, how shall we say, interesting visual wedge effects. Mmm, mmm; thanks, John.

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34 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. A real journalist embarrasses CNN’s Don Lemon, h/t Michelle Malkin:
    //michellemalkin.com/2009/07/13/african-journalist-makes-cnn-obama-cheerleader-look-really-really-stupid/

  2. I started wondering – pre-electricity – how were the bellows filled? Interesting that, including the role of the calcant – whose job it was to fill the bellows whilst the organist played

  3. Many of us have seen the news clips, or on YouTube,the 3 white youths baiting a black man in a small Vancouver Island community. This has raised the spectre of racism, and expectedly so considering that racial epithets were used against the victim. I haven’t heard just what they were, but presumably refer to the negroid side of the man.
    I say presumably because, like B. Obama, he is half-
    white. This of course has given the media to wonder if this will be prosecuted as a hate-crime. Now it is surely hateful for 3 to attack 1, and in fact they did the same thing later to another white youth. In my view it would be ridiculous to charge them with a “hate-
    crime, based on race as it is my belief that racial hatred comes from being steeped in it. These 3 are too young and too stupid to even know true racism. In fact, it has been my experience that young men and women act sickeningly obsequious around black males. (But that discussion is for another day). Had it been me instead of him, I would probably have been called a bald headed old man or a silly old bugger, whatever it takes to get my goat the quickest. I have been called a dumb Dogan and a honkey by people who know nothing about the terms. What is most disturbing is that today’s youth (of all colours) think nothing of swarming a single victim. In my time you would have been severely ostracized for such conduct. We had a saying “Two against one is blankety-blank fun”. We didn’t know what we were doing either.

  4. How were the bellows filled, pre-electricity, Erik? Well, the bellows were filled with air. No, wait, wait, stop hitting me đŸ˜‰ Yeah, actually, up to a dozen people pumped foot-bellows to fill the windchests (it’s the windchests that are the fillees, the bellows are the fillers), and, indeed, the timing and placement of the organ pieces within the mass in the 17th and 18th centuries was specifically designed to allow the calcants to recuperate between tunes.
    If you’re further interested, Erik, I (as a student of the device, that is to say as an engineer, not as an operator) have found that the Wikipedia Pipe Organ page, and it’s reference links, are actually not too a bad place at all to start reading further. And while I don’t want to get too far off topic, I will say that I do think that Bach, because of his German Baroque pipe organ design and metallurgy work, as well as his related music theory, composition, and performance skills, is the greatest classical musician ever, much as I think that Louis Armstrong is the greatest modern musician (although, obviously, for different reasons).
    If you are interested in how the wind-chests are filled
    in a modern super-organ, here is some audio of the three
    compressors spooling up on the Atlantic City organ.

  8. Thanks Vitruvius. I think in these days and times, we take so much for granted – without thinking “how did this get to be designed in this manner?”, and without really appreciating what technical marvels many things are.
    The compressors spooling up were neat, I felt like fastening my seatbelt in preparation for takeoff!

  9. At risk of going a bit off topic – thanks for not posting “As slow as possible” by John Cage – total length 639 years – the first 17 months were the bellows inflating!

  11. I really did a double-take yesterday when I noticed the Globe and Mail’s front page headlines, which referred to Obama being fresh back to the US after his “overseas triumphs.” That’s not hyperbole; it’s sheer make-believe.
    Contrast that with a comment in Doyle McManus’s July 12 article “The End of Obamania” in the LA Times (http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-mcmanus12-2009jul12,0,7010231.column): “That’s not to say the trip was a bust; it wasn’t. But it was far from a triumph …” McManus reflects the views of people who actually have to live with Obama’s policies — one reason for the wide difference between Obama’s approval ratings in Canada and the US.

  12. Iggy’s Liberal Party is a room in the socialist shelter.
    The socialist shelter provides food for the socialist do-gooders.
    Socialism is a religion of the stomach.
    …-
    “Homeless get $10 Tims vouchers
    Pools are shut, 52,000 children have had their swimming lessons and summer camps cancelled, and basketball courts have become temporary dumps. But at least one group is happy and well looked-after: the city’s homeless.
    “We love it now,” said Chris Dunkan, 25, who is staying at Seaton House, a shelter for 600 men on George Street in downtown Toronto. “They don’t cook right now so they give us out food vouchers. Everything else is basically the same. We get clean towels and sheets. The laundry gets done.”
    With the city’s 57 daycare centres locked and restaurant inspections, for example, suspended during a strike by unionized staff, the City of Toronto has redeployed dozens of managers from Public Health and Children’s Services to work in the nine homeless shelters that the city owns. But not, in most cases, to cook.”
    http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/story.html?id=1787693
    **GUSTAVE LE BON and the Crowd
    “Le Bon’s study has not been surpassed to this day [1957] , I believe. …. Socialism is in fact nothing but the religion of the Stomach.” …
    http://www.fulltable.com/crowd/07.htm

  13. Summer is not cancelled says AGW modeller/forecaster.
    The perfect models of the modern major AGW modellers.
    >>> “”When I look at the models for mid-July to mid-August, I see no significant area showing colder than normal, I see only normal and warmer than normal,” he said. “There’s no guarantee with it, but at least the models are suggesting that we haven’t cancelled summer — we’ve delayed it.”
    Translation:
    >>> AGW is in the pipeline; it’s coming ’cause global warming causes global cooling, er global cooling causes ….. modellers to freeze up.
    …-
    “Be patient with summer, says climatologist
    Cooler than normal in most parts of country
    July is only half-over and already Canadians are grumbling about cold temperatures and miserable weather –but a Canadian weather guru maintains it’s too soon to write off 2009 as the year that summer forgot.
    Most of Canada — with the exception of B. C., Yukon and some parts of Atlantic Canada — are experiencing colder than normal temperatures this summer. Environment Canada climatologist David Phillips says recent outbursts of extreme weather might actually indicate a turning of the tide.”
    http://www.nationalpost.com/most-popular/story.html?id=1785341

  15. (PDF warning; via SWJ) Gilles Dorronsoro, The Taliban’s Winning Strategy in Afghanistan
    A misunderstanding of the insurgency is at the heart of the difficulties facing the International Coalition in Afghanistan. The Taliban are often described as an umbrella movement comprising loosely connected groups that are essentially local and unorganized. On the contrary, this report’s analysis of the structure and strategy of the insurgency reveals a resilient adversary, engaged in strategic planning and coordinated action.
    The Taliban are a revolutionary movement, deeply opposed to the Afghan tribal system and focused on the rebuilding of the Islamic Emirate. Their propaganda and intelligence are efficient, and the local autonomy of their commanders in the field allow them both flexibility and cohesion. They have made clever use of ethnic tensions, the rejection of foreign forces by the Afghan people, and the lack of local administration to gain support in the population. In so doing the Taliban have achieved their objectives in the South and East of the country, isolating the Coalition, marginalizing the local Afghan administration, and establishing a parallel administration (mainly to dispense Sharia justice and collect taxes). In recent months, a more professional Taliban have succeeded in making significant inroads by recruiting from non-Pashtun communities…

  18. “Sarahnoia.” I’ll have to remember that one.
    J.E. Dyer, We Are All Marxists Now
    How do you know when the memes-‘n’-tropes of an ideology, and its policy corollaries, have become the defining features of our mental reality?
    When nice Irish girls from Brooklyn use them, as if they are not hortatory (and certainly not revolutionary) but simply descriptive.
    I noted in my last piece on Sarahnoia that Peggy Noonan, in doing her best to take down Sarah Palin, insisted with rather startling vehemence that Palin is not from the “working class.”…

  19. The Hoover Institution at Stanford University now has a searchable archive of materials relating to William F. Buckley, Jr.’s Firing Line. Some programmes have video clips or a transcript available on the Internet; others can be ordered on DVD or in transcript.

  20. Today’s “Where’s the Birth Certificate” segment:
    1- Drudge has an article about a US soldier refusing to go overseas because he believe his Prez is not qualified to be his commander in chief, it will go in front of a court of law this week:
    http://www.drudgereport.com/
    2- World Net Daily again asked Robert Gibbs (US Press Secretary) about the BC yesterday (Video available):
    Google: World Net Daily
    This pertains to: Hawaian hospital now has scrubbed alledged forged Obama letter stating he was born at THEIR hospital off it’s website. The Hospital was using it for fund raising…
    This BC issue is growing fast folks and like I said clearly here before: IF ANYONE CAN COME UP WITH FACTS AND LINKS THAT WILL PUT THIS THING TO BED ONCE AND FOR ALL, BE MY GUEST.
    I DO NOT AFFILIATE WITH CONSPIRACY THEORY WINGNUTS BUT THIS ONE IS POTENTIALLY HUGE AND MAY BE VERY EXPLOSIVE IN NATURE. THERE’S SOMETHING HERE FOLKS, FOR THOSE SKEPTICAL LIKE I ONCE WAS, DO SOME RESEARCH. THERE ARE 100’S OF SITES ON THE SUBJECT.
    Right now, every one seems busy asking “how”, “what”, “where” and “when” but I have now reached the stage of “WHY”.
    -Why is the power structure/judicial system/media all silent/ignoring this issue, even to the point they are kept from even commenting/reporting/debunking it?
    My best answer is that Barry Soetoro aka Barrack Hussein Obama has been pre selected and put in place of power via a now bogus democratic system.
    -Why?
    Because the United States is financially bankrupt.
    Barry’s ‘mission’ is to bring the world to a ‘reset’ by deliberately destroying what’s left of the economic engine of the world (USA).
    To have stuck to non government intrusion and let the private financial/corporate institutions correct themselves and go into a painful depression until leading into possible world conflicts (aka 1929 to 1945) was not an option.
    The “masterminds” want to bypass this and skip that period. The mass of people with financial savings/investments are the targets.
    Destroy the world economies by putting every nation in the same boat as world economies are so inter dependant now and start from scratch again. Push the reset bottom.
    Obama was the perfect ‘blueprint’ for this: A hard core socialist. He’s just a useful tool.

  21. Terry tory – the problem with your economic theory is its complexity. There are too many ‘if’s’ and ‘possibles’; that is, too many required links and connections with other issues.
    A basic axiom of any valid theory is its simplicity – the famous Ockham axiom.
    Charles Macdonald – the description of the Taliban sounds quite similar to the Mafia and gang Organizations in various countries around the world. Note that this means that the Taliban will move out of ideology (the socialist ideology of total control) and into basic economic illegal cartels.
    Very similar to what happened in C. America when the marxist ideology fell apart and the ‘socialist revolutionaries’ moved into drug running, kidnapping and extortion as an economic lifestyle.

  22. Colin in Mission: The Queen,God Save Her, may be finding the weight of the crown a little heavy in her eighties, but I can think of dozens of others more fittingly placed with Mother Teresa, T.S. Eliot and Madam Thatcher. Still it’s her honour to give to whom she pleases. Long my she reign, if only to upset the separatists.

  24. O’air is African Slavery*.
    “Phillips told CFRA’s Afternoon Edition with Rob Snow it has been too much “Canadian air and Arctic air, and not enough Obama air” from the South to warm things up.**”
    Here is O’air: African Slavery* by Africans.
    …-
    *”Obama links slavery, Holocaust memory
    JERUSALEM (JTA) — President Obama stressed the importance of remembering slavery to the importance of remembering the Holocaust, according to the CNN Web site.
    “It’s one of those things that you don’t forget about,” Obama told CNN in an interview scheduled to air Monday on “Anderson Cooper 360,” according to a report on the Web site.
    Obama gave the interview over the weekend while visiting the African country of Ghana, once a major slave trading center.
    “I think it’s important that the way we think about it, the way it’s taught, is not one in which there’s simply a victim and a victimizer, and that’s the end of the story,” the president said. “I think the way it has to be thought about, the reason it’s relevant, is whether it’s what’s happening in Darfur or what’s happening in the Congo or what’s happening in too many places around the world, the capacity for cruelty still exists.”
    Obama called his visit to Cape Coast Castle, a slavery dungeon, “reminiscent of the trip I took to Buchenwald,” a German Nazi death camp. “It reminds us of the capacity of human beings to commit great evil,” he said.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2291747/posts
    …-
    *”Half a million African slaves are at the heart of Mauritania’s presidential election
    More than half a million slaves are at the heart of a presidential election battle in the former French colony of Mauritania.
    A year after she ran away from her master, Barakatu Mint Sayed prays that the election on July 18 will mark the beginning of the end of slavery in Mauritania.
    Her nation is one of the last places on Earth where large numbers of humans are still kept as property.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2291766/posts
    **urlm.in/csrq

  25. Easy being environmentally happy? Thrilled to do a bureaucrats bidding Thanks to our government, we’ll all be making special trips during the latest wealth transfer to come from the socialists…courtesy of ‘conservative’ legislation:
    I used to think I was making a better world for my grandchildren by using compact fluorescent bulbs. Now I’m not so sure.
    It’s not that I doubt the claim that they use a quarter as much energy as regular incandescent light bulbs and last many times longer……..The bulbs contain a tiny amount of mercury, a cause of birth defects and harm to the nervous system, kidneys and the liver. If I were to paraphrase the ministry’s startling advice, you’d think I was making it up, so I’ll quote extensively.
    In the event a bulb breaks:
    “Ventilate the room for at least 15 minutes, prior to starting cleanup, by opening windows.” “Do not use a vacuum to clean up the initial breakage, as it will spread the mercury vapour and dust throughout the area and may contaminate the vacuum. “Wear disposable gloves, if available, to avoid direct contact with mercury.”
    “Scoop or sweep up the broken pieces and debris with two pieces of stiff paper or cardboard. Do not use a broom.” And, finally…:
    “Use sticky tape, such as duct tape or masking tape, to pick up any remaining fine glass or powder.”
    Oops, did I say “finale”? I’m way ahead of myself. Your work would have just begun…..
    http://www.montrealgazette.com/easy+being+green/1787872/story.html

  26. ‘Topsoil’ Stelmach has done nothing conservative since winning.
    He’s expanded the size of provincial government to the largest per capita in the country, run years of surpluses straight right into a black hole, screwed up oil & gas royalties, and is giving $2 billion to the connected backroom boys in the ‘hide the carbon scam’ known as sequestration.
    He’s the Stephane Dion of Alberta, a third place accident at the leadership convention.
    The sooner he’s gone, the better for Alberta…..
    ……Many Albertans know this is a problem. And they’ve been speaking out about it for some time now. So much so that in 2006, one Tory party leadership candidate made a promise to address it, saying: “Shipping raw bitumen is like scraping off the topsoil, selling it, and thinking we have a rich farm because we have cash in the bank.”
    He even pointed out the obvious, “Once it’s gone, it’s gone for good.”
    While campaigning, he talked about increasing the amount of bitumen upgraded in the province. That candidate’s name was, of course, Ed Stelmach.
    But when he became premier, nothing happened on the raw bitumen exports file. Then value-added processing was included within the scope of Alberta’s recent royalty review.
    The government’s own hand-picked panel surprised everyone with its recommendations, which included a rebate on royalties for processing in-province.
    However, Premier Stelmach’s government chose to ignore that recommendation, instead promising vague action sometime in the future.
    Still, nothing happened on the raw bitumen exports file.
    Then the news came out last month that the Clipper pipeline was approved, and possibly 18,000 jobs would flow down to the United States. Many voices said the government should do something.
    Still nothing happened….”
    http://www.ualberta.ca/PARKLAND/research/perspectives/GibsonThompsonValueAdded08OpEd.htm

  27. Obama has his own Dr. Strangelove
    http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1939256/is_john_holdren_obamas_dr_strangelove.html
    “According to the website Zombietime, Holdren, along with Paul Ehlrich, author of the 1968 book The Population Bomb, made the following recommendations:
    “Women could be forced to abort their pregnancies, whether they wanted to or not;
    “The population at large could be sterilized by infertility drugs intentionally put into the nation’s drinking water or in food;
    “Single mothers and teen mothers should have their babies seized from them against their will and given away to other couples to raise;
    People who “contribute to social deterioration” (i.e. undesirables) ‘can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility’ — in other words, be compelled to have abortions or be sterilized.
    “A transnational “Planetary Regime” should assume control of the global economy and also dictate the most intimate details of Americans’ lives — using an armed international police force.”
    My my, this sounds remarkably like mid 30’s Malthusian eugenics championed by Tommy Douglas, Marg Sanger and the German national socialists. Interesting that the Obama regime is also thinking of enforcing compulsory injections of an untested potentially lethal flu vaccine.
    Related details:
    http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=34198

  28. Islam Denial from the Canadian MSM.
    MSM avoids Muslim/Islam like the plague.
    MSM uses Protestant, Jewish, Roman Catholic in everywhichway.
    The MSM bias is clear and vivid.
    Good work. More, please.
    What would LibIggy and Taliban Jack LaytoNDP have done?
    …-
    “Montreal Couple Deported to U.S.
    The Canada Border Services Agency says a Pakistani couple living in Montreal has been deported.
    A spokeswoman for the couple says Sabir Mohammed Sheikh and his wife Seema were deported on Tuesday morning and turned over to U.S. authorities.”
    http://www.cfra.com/?cat=3&nid=66525

  30. Mao Stlong’s Red Chinese Pyramid Scheme, aka socialism.
    It’s TO; but, TO has no “spasms of violence”.
    …-
    “Analysis: Income gaps, corruption fuel China riots
    BEIJING (AP) — Widening income gaps, corrupt local administrations and policies that seem to favor the well-connected few over the disadvantaged many are fueling spasms of violence that spring up in cities across China.”
    urlm.in/cssg

  31. “Palin takes a stand in WaPo – blasts cap and trade
    By Sarah Palin
    Tuesday, July 14, 2009
    There is no shortage of threats to our economy. America’s unemployment rate recently hit its highest mark in more than 25 years and is expected to continue climbing. Worries are widespread that even when the economy finally rebounds, the recovery won’t bring jobs. Our nation’s debt is unsustainable, and the federal government’s reach into the private sector is unprecedented.
    Unfortunately, many in the national media would rather focus on the personality-driven political gossip of the day than on the gravity of these challenges. So, at risk of disappointing the chattering class, let me make clear what is foremost on my mind and where my focus will be:
    I am deeply concerned about President Obama’s cap-and-trade energy plan, and I believe it is an enormous threat to our economy. It would undermine our recovery over the short term and would inflict permanent damage.”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/

  32. What is it about conducted energy weapons that cause police to have such a hard time when under oath?
    Maybe TASER usage should be restricted to those who can’t be asked to testify under oath. I’m sure the RCMP would shriek with joy….
    Halifax — Globe and Mail Update Last updated on Tuesday, Jul. 14, 2009 03:43PM EDT
    The officer who arrested Howard Hyde acknowledged Tuesday that he used a colleague’s material to prepare paperwork after the mentally ill man was tasered, reversing testimony from yesterday at a fatality inquiry.
    Halifax Regional Police Constable Jonathan Edwards said Monday that he had “not accessed” his colleague’s supplemental report. He wrote his own supplemental, he said, after accompanying Mr. Hyde to hospital. This was about an hour after Special Constable Gregory McCormick, who actually used the taser on Mr. Hyde, prepared his report.
    Questioned about the numerous similarities between their accounts, Constable Edwards suggested Monday it was a coincidence.
    On Tuesday, though, he was questioned by police lawyer Sandra MacPherson-Duncan. After establishing that officers aren’t graded on their creative writing, and that he wouldn’t ever copy a colleague’s notes, she returned to the issue of cribbing the other report…….”

  34. Iggy’s spokesman said she wouldn’t bite: ““We’re not going to bite.””
    Jill took the bait, bit, and swallowed the hook; now she and Iggy are hooked and landed. Suckers.
    “Ignatieff spokeswoman Jill Fairbrother said Tuesday “the only people who could benefit [from the site] would be the Conservatives.””
    …-
    “‘Republicans for Ignatieff’ website sparks confusion
    OTTAWA — Who’s behind a new political website that paints Michael Ignatieff as a hero to hard-core right-wingers?
    Not us, say the federal Conservatives. Not us either, says the New Democratic Party. And the website isn’t linked to the American political party that shares its name.
    Yet “Republicans for Ignatieff” purports to praise Canada’s Liberal leader for his “courageous stands on targeted assassination and coercive interrogation.”
    It also focuses on his onetime support for the war in Iraq and love of the United States.
    With video and audio of Ignatieff’s past statements as a professor and author, the site highlights views that seem closer to traditional Conservative thinking than that of the Liberals.
    The site’s originators won’t identify themselves other than to say they aren’t affiliated with the U.S. Republican National Committee or any state Republican party.
    Sun Media’s query to the group’s e-mail went unanswered, and a contact telephone number wasn’t in service.
    In an e-mail to Maclean’s blogger Kady O’Malley, however, an anonymous group member said, “I admire Ignatieff for his willingness to admit hard truths … particularly the strategic importance of the tar sands, the need for coercive interrogation as a tool in the war on terror, and the irrelevance of Canadian foreign policy under the Chretien and Martin administrations.””
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2009/07/14/10133066-sun.html

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