At the urging of a board member, the Organ Media Foundation has been 
producing more video content for our Youtube channel. Initially I 
decided to just start taking along a video camera when I happened to 
visit a church.  That's turned into a weekly series where I talk with 
the resident organist or someone else about the instrument in the 
church.  So far the series has literally been "where was I this week?" 
with the choices of instruments dictated by whatever was going on in my 
schedule.  Recently I've had some people reach out to me to suggest I go 
visit certain historic instruments, so that's what's coming up.

For instance, just today we published a look at a 1925 Hinners organ 
with one manual and 4 ranks: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skCQ41b2dfA  . While not an especially 
noteworthy instrument at first look, we see how Hinners was the master 
of catalog sales of his instruments selling mainly to rural churches 
across the country.  This one has only had minor alterations since it's 
original installation.  While we were there, we also found two more 
Hinners organs nearby, one built 20 years prior, but the stoplist and 
mechanics were identical, showing how they found a formula to cheaply 
build organs that work and never deviated from that plan.  The other two 
have been restored, and all three are still workhorses making music each 
week.  We'll see those two next week.

Anyway, you can see all of our videos on our YouTube channel at 
https://www.youtube.com/organmediafoundation. If you want to be notified 
of when new videos are added, you can subscribe to our channel by going 
to https://www.youtube.com/user/organmediafoundation?sub_confirmation=1 
or you can like our Facebook page and be notified there: 
https://www.facebook.com/OrganMedia/

I hope you enjoy!

Brent Johnson

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