The red-hat ladies and I got a chance to meet Tom Joyce and the 3944 pipes of the DA Flentrop when St. Marks opened a tour to me this Friday. Tom did a wonderful job selecting pieces that suited the voice of each style of pipe he demonstrated. We listened to excerpts from compositions that showed how the different voices sound. Then he played a couple pieces that gave him a chance to pull out (almost) all the stops.
Tom has been the assistant organist at St. Marks for 5 years while he has been completing his doctorate at the University of Washington under Carole Terry. This spring we will likely be congratulating Thomas Joyce as a new Phd.
I think the most interesting thing I learned was that the pedal board has not always been as it is now. The Fritts in chapel has a flat and straight pedal arrangement and is built to represent a baroque instrument. According to Tom only a couple of ranks of pipes have been added that would not have been in a period instrument, else while it remains faithfully representative.
It was a great shoot.
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