The Tom Alberts March

The Tom Alberts March
Hi there, I have recently composed a march rightly named the 'The Tom Alberts March' I thought it was about time he had one :) http://www.supload.com/music/Virtual-Organ-The-Tom-Albert-March-Copyright--2008-Eddynickson-download-Y0V6SYO1YJIP.html All being well you will be hearing it on some proper organ's very soon... p.s. has no one arranged or 'marked' a '50years Of FOPS March' :wink: ?? Cheers, Eddy.

Who was Tom Albert? Was he anything to do with Tom Alberts, the first president of the FOPS? I composed a march for the Silver Jubilee (25 years) of the FOPS called "The Silver Years" (naff title, I know!) when I was 17 and I'm still waiting to hear it!

Ooops Blonde moment for me there Jory... to busy editing my new video's and msn! Yet i spelt it right on the Midi File's name itself. By the time you will have read this it will all be upto your standards... Eddy (a tad embarrased)

Hello Eddy Very good ! Whould you like to hear it on my 61 note midi organ ? Just send me the midifile, I'll record it for you, without percussions though... Cheers Chris

a nice march Eddy ....but are you sure the genre is "rap" as comes up on the screen, I just can't imagine it in the next Ali G movie meself.... :lol:

haha i forgot about changing the genre lol.. it was set as rap as i was uploading it... i just clicked finish and saw 'genre: Rap' :L oh well, thanks for the comments... Christian, Does your organ have counter melody? this march needs it to play at it's best! ;)

Nice piece Eddy, I liked the Carl Frei-esq refranes & little bit of bifone! Regards Robert Washington :org:

I cant decide, 112 key gavi, or 78 keyless ruth? I would love this on either (preferably the ruth hint hint)

Hi Eddy My midi pipe organ is'nt a very traditional one....You could be surprised by the sound ! :)

Hi Ed! Glad you have spelt the founder president's surname correctly now. Tom Alberts was a man universally regarded by everyone. I have never heard an ill word said against him but he fell out with the society very rapidly after its formation resiging the presidency and would have nothing to do with it after that. However, it was too late, he had really started something! I think secretly he would be pleased to think that the FOPS has made it to its Golden Jubilee. Jory PS Even worse than "The Silver Years" I see I wrote a rag for the 25th called "FOPS Rag". Extra naff or what! Rags were popular back then - least they were with me. Lol!

It's great. Yes, I'm sure a larger Ruth would do well. I like the street organ aspects so I would suggest the 112 Carl Frei at Thursford. Peter

By the time you will have read this it will all be up to your standards... Soz to be a party-pooper: How can a midi file combination of Frei-style moments be suitable to honour the memory of a man who would have grown up in Lancashire with Gavioli trumpet barrel organs, bioscope organs and scenic railway organs? I expect TA's idea of a march would be his own Marenghi playing "Old Comrades"; not sure he would have swapped it for a street organ "arranger's march". Kevin Meayers and I have talked about running a music arranger's workshop one w/e at the Amersham Fair Organ Museum if there was enough interest. It would be a chance to promote the traditional English style of arranging techniques and encourage beginners. Perhaps we could all make a section of a piece for say, 46 put it together and have it cut and ready to play at a workshop concert on Sunday afternoon on the museum's Wilhelm Bruder Sohne. I wonder what the piece would sound like? Would we be able to tell who had made which bit? I'm not knocking you, Ed. Everyone has to start somewhere. I know! After 17 years at it I am still learning. It's not a job you ever fully accomplish, the learning curve is endless and you begin to forget how you did things when you reach my advanced years! You have blonde moments; I've started having senior ones. :(

I see what you mean Jory... but its the Frei style for me everytime, maybe he does deserve a true English march, but i am not the person to produce that... maybe i shall change the name to errm well there are jaffa cakes next to me right now so how about the 'The Jaffa Cakes March' :lol: My insperations have come from listening to arrangements by Frei, Razenberg, Hiddo and the late Frans Baum... i love arranging modern music! adding a bit of Frei with Basshunter 8) plus adding alot of seperate cymbol too :D yes i know it is not everyones cup of tea but us youngens love it! that is what makes teens listen to an organ.... you watch at Dorset, it is the same story with the Centenary! I have a long way to go..... im no expert! but many people have given me encouragement and given me the chance to produce music for their organs... I have another four or five marches that i have composed still on my computer with no names,I have arranged endless modern medley's, cheesie pop & Rock tunes. I know what you mean when you say it is a job you will never accomplish, i am forever fussing with my arrangements after i class them as finished... :oops: I can say i look forward to learning more and more as i go along! It is a nice little hobby :)

WOW, i would love to go on that arranging corse thing Jory. Seriously Eddie, make it for the Ruth, PLLLEEEEEAAAAASSSSSEEEEE

I'm more a Louis Blache/Gustav Bruder man, myself! But there is nothing wrong with your list of personal arranger heros Ed - although I think Albert Decap is probably better than all the ones you mention. Frans Baum was a big fan of his. Albert is a GOD whose name can be added to those of Blache and Gustav Bruder in the pantheon of grea-*test*-('") arrangers that ever lived. If we had just a w/e on the computer at Amersham, I expect I'd learn an awful lot from you! But I hope its not too late to encourage traditional arranging in UK on a board or a marking barrel else the art will die with Kevin and myself and a few others of our generation. I wonder now that Arthur Prinsen has retired will anyone ever work on his marking barrel again? To think that that machine hasn't stopped turning for 80 years, first in the Mortier factory and then Urbain van Wichelen and then Mr Prinsen. Rather than putting on an event that was not what anyone wanted, I'd welcome your ideas. Would people want to take part in a 24-hour group project or seek advice on things they are working on at the moment from goup leaders? May be both. We'd have to try and establish the general level of knowledge of the group and be willing to help along the complete novices amongst us. I was thinking there are 3 main areas: music theory (which is not really arranging at all and you can study with a music teacher); basic marking techniques (how to set down yourr arrangement) and style (the most difficult as how something should sound is all a matter of personal taste). What instruments would we want to involve in the w/e? We could have the use of a 46, and 89 or even a van Eyk street organ or a 72 Decap. But this is where MIDI is not helpful: street, dance and fair organs German, fair organs French, require slightly different approaches. You can't just make the same tune for all. Well, you can and people do but the results are a compromised. Give it some thought budding arrangers out there and post your ideas for the perfect arranger's w/e. The offer is there if there is sufficient interest. This is exactly what the Amersham Fair Organ Museum is set up to do. Encourage you lot - the next generation!

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