PIPE ORGANS EXPLAINED: Alan Kitchen
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Title: PIPE ORGANS EXPLAINED: Alan Kitchen
Reference number: 13708
Date: 2019
Director: d. Yushin Toda
Production company: japan desk scotland
Sound: sound
Original format: unknown
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 34.53 mins
Description: Alan Kitchen, organist and Director of Music at Wellington Church, Glasgow, demonstrates and explains the workings of the church's pipe organ.
Credits:
p. Fumi Nakabachi and Yushin Toda, japan desk scotland
comm. w. Yushin Toda
ph. Fumi Nakabachi
ed. Yushin Toda
cast Alan Kitchen
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Filmmaker's synopsis:
Alan Kitchen, a freelance musician, is Organist and Director of Music at Wellington Church, Glasgow, scotland, for 15 years. He explains how pipe organs work, by playing Wellington’s organ, with 2,610 pipes, ranging from a 16-feet pipe to a less than 1 cm one. He shows around the areas usually closed for the public, such as pipes and blowers. As an organ is usually designed and made to a particular building, there is a unique relationship between a building and an organ: “The organ is the voice of the building.”
The interview was carried out in December 2019 at Wellington Church, Glasgow.