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Join Simon and Leah as they bike across Europe, seeking out big, bizarre and beautiful pipe organs and their human handlers.... more
FAQs about Organ Safari:How many episodes does Organ Safari have?The podcast currently has 26 episodes available.
October 05, 2017Episode 025 — LucerneOf all the big beasts on the Savannah, there is none larger than the Subcontra C of the principal 32’ of the Hofkirche St. Leodegar Organ in Lucerne. Join intrepid explorers Leah and Simon, and their guide Wolfgang Sieber, as they track down the world's largest organ pipe — a pipe that could swallow you whole....more31minPlay
June 28, 2017Episode 024 — The Cinema OrganPerhaps we should have called the episode "The Theatre Organ", because the specimens we examine are all American. Pith helmets girded tight, safariers Leah and Simon venture into the wilds of California to study this little-understood animal. ...more1hPlay
June 20, 2017Episode 023 — Brother Georg's OrgansIn our many years of safariing, this is the craziest piece of pipe organ DIY we have ever come across. Brother Jorge's Organ San Patricio contains parts of dozens of other instruments and has been a lifetime in the making....more39minPlay
June 01, 2017Episode 022 — SionHis stupefying single-mindedness yet again on display, Simon brings us another contender for the world's oldest organ—this time from the wilds of a Swiss mountaintop. Oldest or not, the organ at the Valère Basilia in Sion, Switzerland is a singularly fascinating beast....more47minPlay
March 25, 2017Episode 021 — Fratelli RuffattiSimon rolls a natural twenty on his charisma check to explain to Leah his visit to the wondrous workshop of the Fratelli Ruffatti, prominent international organ builders. In addition to the D&Desque forges and foundries, we learned about the Ruffatti-Canada connection and some inside stories from the Crystal Cathedral....more53minPlay
February 17, 2017Episode 020 — The Spreckels OrganWe examine a New World species, whose natural habitat is not a cathedral or a hockey arena, but rather it makes its home in the out of doors. The Spreckels Organ in San Diego is the world's largest outdoor organ, and playing and maintaining it can be quite tricky. Come and visit this American landmark with us....more54minPlay
December 04, 2016Episode 019 — The Organ CaféOur safari takes us to a church that is keeping the organ popular, and an organ that epitomizes the Reform Movement....more26minPlay
September 23, 2016Episode 018—OrgelbaumuseumThe Norrlanda organ, currently in a museum in Stockholm, is reckoned to be the oldest surviving organ fragments in the world. There is a working replica at the Orgelbaumuseum in Ostheim, Germany—a paradisiacal museum dedicated to the building of organs....more31minPlay
August 11, 2016Episode 017—SchmalkaldenWe investigate the beautiful Renaissance Klangfarbe of a historic instrument in the Wilhelmsburg Castle at Schmaaaaalkalden....more25minPlay
July 21, 2016Episode 016 — The EuropaorgelOf all the weird species spotted on this safari, there is none stranger than the Europaorgel—a crazy chimera of sounds from all the countries of Europe. Plus some outlandish mutations....more27minPlay
FAQs about Organ Safari:How many episodes does Organ Safari have?The podcast currently has 26 episodes available.