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To date Felix Hell has performed/played/practiced on more than 650 different organs of more than
120 organ builders. With this experience he feels comfortable to perform on any kind of instrument,
regardless, whether they are mechanical key and/or stop action organs (tracker organs), electro-pneumatic or electric action instruments, organs with any kind of console or of pedal boards (flat, concave, parallel, radiating), or on very old historic organs with their particulars. |
| Performances on historic German instruments like Silbermann, Schnitger, Geib, Stumm, Oestreich, Hoffmann and Wagner provided him with authentic insights into the respective tonal and mechanical design of organs of the baroque era, and a better understanding of a historically informed performance practice. This way performing on instruments with short pedal boards, low compass pedal boards (or both), short octaves, double upper keys, e.g., does not cause any difficulties. On the contrary, because of the experience collected, he feels secure and comfortable on any of such historic instruments. |
| On the other hand, performances on Romantic organs like E.F.Walcker, Sauer, Steinmeyer, Johnson & Sons (USA), and on instruments of the so called American classic type, and even on digital imitations of pipe organs here and there, requested a different from the pure historical informed performance approach, and such provided Felix Hell with the view that nothing can be taken as absolutely correct, no rendition, no performance practice, no registration, no tonal design of an organ. This way the most important result of having played so many organs is tolerance. Tonal approaches may be different, and we may discuss about trackers or EPs, about temperature or voicing, about baroque or romantic instruments, about wind pressures or scaling. But it is the tolerance, which enables us to understand a different from ours conviction. |
| Before that background, Felix Hell feels blessed having played so many different instruments. Therefore he would like to thank all these organbuilders, whose instruments he had the opportunity to play. Unfortunately, some of them have closed their workshops for ever. But their works will remain. |
List of organbuilders, whose instruments Felix Hell was honored to performe on:
AEOLIAN (USA)
AEOLIAN-SKINNER (USA)
*** ALLEN (USA)
ANDOVER (USA)
AUSTIN (USA)
BECKERATH (D)
BLANCAFORT (Spanien)
BOSCH (D)
BRUNZEMA (USA)
** BUCHHOLZ (D))
CARLSON, L.A. (USA)
CASAVANT (Kanada)
CHRISTENSEN (Dänemark)
COLBY (USA)
DAVIDSON, Richard (USA)
DOBSON (USA)
EISENBARTH (D)
** ESTEY (USA)
EULE (D)
FINCHAM & SONS (Australien)
FISCHER & KRÄMER (D)
FISK (USA)
FÖRSTER & NIKOLAUS (D)
FROBENIUS (Dänemark)
FRITTS, Paul (USA)
FÜHRER (D)
* GEIB, Johann-Georg (D))
GIBAULT-THERIEN (Kanada)
GLATTER-GÖTZ (D)
GÖCKEL (D)
GOLL (Schweitz)
GOULDING & WOOD (USA)
de GRAAF (Spanien)
GROENLUND (Schweden)
*** HARRAH (USA)
HEINTZ (D)
HENDRICKSON (USA)
HILL (England)
HILL, NORMAN & BEARD (Australien)
* HOFFMAN, Johann (D)
HOLTKAMP (USA)
HOOK & HASTINGS (USA)
** IBACH (D)
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JANN (D)
** JOHNSON & SONS (USA)
KEMPER (D)
KILGEN (USA)
KLAIS (D)
KLEUKER (D)
KNEY, Gabriel (USA)
KUHN (D)
KUHN (Schweiz)
LETOURNEAU (Kanada)
LINK (D)
LIVELY-FULCHER (USA)
MAHLER, Remy (Frankreich)
MANDER (England)
MARCUSSEN (Dänemark)
*** MARSHALL & OGLETREE (USA)
MAYER, Hugo (D)
METZLER (Schweiz)
MEYER, Russell (USA)
MIDMER (USA)
MÜHLEISEN (Frankreich)
MÜHLEISEN, Konrad (D)
MOELLER (USA)
MOENCH (D)
NICHOLS & SIMPSON (USA)
NOACK, Fritz (USA)
OBERLINGER (D)
* OESTREICH, Johann Markus (D)
OHLERT, Peter (D)
OTT, Martin (USA)
OTT, Paul (D))
OWART, Werner (D)
PARKEY (USA)
PERAGALLO (USA)
PIRCHNER (Österreich)
REUTER (USA)
RIEGER (Österreich)
RIEGER-KLOSS (Tschechien)
*** RODGERS (USA)
ROSALES (USA)
RUFATTI (Italien)
RYDE & BERG (Norwegen)
SANDTNER (D)
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** SAUER(D)
SCHANTZ (USA)
SCHERPF (D)
SCHLICKER (USA)
SCHMID (D)
* SCHNITGER, Arp (D))
* SCHNITGER, Caspar (Niederlande)
SCHOENSTEIN (USA)
SCHUKE, Alexander (D)
SCHUKE, Karl (D)
SEIFERT (D)
* SEUFFERT (D)
* SILBERMANN, Andreas (D)
SHARP (Australien)
SIPE (USA)
SKINNER, E.M. (USA)
SMENGE (Australien)
STEHLE (D))
** J.W.STEER & SON (USA)
STEINMANN (D)
STEINMEYER (D))
* STUMM, Johann Michael (D)
TELLER (USA)
TORKILDSEN (Norwegen)
VIER, Peter (D)
VISSER ROWLAND (USA)
VLEUGELS (D)
VOIGT (D)
**VOIT, Louis (D)
*WAGNER, Joachim (D)
WALCKER, E.F. (D)
WALKER (UK)
*** WALKER Technical (USA)
WEIGLE (D)
WEISE (D)
WICKS (USA)
ZIMMER (USA)
ZIMNOL, Paul (D)
*) historic baroque instruments
**) other historic instruments
***) digital/electronic instruments
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