OK, so here it is:

   http://download.orphi.me.uk/Music/G3/WidorToccata.ogg

The toccata from Widor's Symphonie No. 5 in F major. As played by *me*.

What you're hearing here is literally me sitting at my keyboard, playing 
in realtime. No editing, no corrections, no dubbing, just recorded live. 
(Hence the dropped notes, dud timing and embarrasing pauses as I attempt 
to remember which notes come next, and snap bones and tendons to fit my 
fingers into the required positions!)

The sound is provided by Native Instrument's Kontakt 3 product, which 
has a vast ( = 3 DVDs! ) sample library which includes (amoung many 
other things) a pipe organ. It has 3 settings: "Fonds + Quint", "Vox 
Humaine 8'" and "Pos-Scharff", which is the one I'm using here. For no 
particular reason. It just has a faster attack to it, that's all. I have 
no idea which organ stops you're actually *supposed* to use for this work...

My synthesizer does in fact have a fairly good pipe organ simulation, 
but it doesn't really compare to recordings of the real thing. I think 
you'll agree, this sounds pretty damned impressive! Somehow, playing 
with a sound like this, I find myself taking the playing that much more 
seriously... as if it really were a giant pipe organ or something.

Anyway, enough of that - what do you guys thing of my playing skills?

(Yes, I admit it, I'm only playing two thirds of the toccata. And yes, 
some of the bass notes are in the wrong octave. My keyboard is quite 
small compared to a real organ, and I don't have any pedals!)

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