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Jewish organist MAX LAMPEL and the female cellist , The world acclaimed THELMA YELLIN Organ n. I The organ at YMCA in Jerusalem was built with the generosity of the Juilliard Foundation from New York. It was constructed by the American organ-builder Austin and installed in the concert hall of the YMCA center in Jerusalem in 1932. The scene of this hall is confined, so the console was placed in the hall and not on the scene and the organ itself was installed in several rooms adjacent to the hall communicating with it through holes made above the stage. These rooms being very small, a complete distortion of the instrument’s sound resulted and no one knows really how it could have sounded if one had placed it in the sound volume that it needed. Despite its questionable musical quality and acoustic problems, this instrument remained for about 40 years the only existing organ in a concert hall in Israel, and for this reason it was widely used for concerts and recordings. Most of the concerts were given by the Israeli organist Max Lampel, who worked in the early Israeli Radio and was for many years an organ professor in the Jerusalem Music Academy. Home page The organs of Israel Forthcoming concerts Contact us עברית Français The organ was disassembled in 2000 as part of a project to be installed in a warehouse in the city of Safed (Northern Israel). Due to a lack of financing this project was abandoned. Later, the Municipality of the city of Carmiel (Northern Israel) asked the organ builder G. Shamir to rebuild and install the organ in the great concert hall of the town. This project also remained unrealized. Meanwhile, except for the pipes from the fourth manual division which remained in YMCA, the organ itself diappeared. [This organ is described in the article “Organs in Israel” appearing in the journal “The American Organist” of April 1991 by Brenda Lynne Leach.] Disposition 47 stops 2917 pipes First manual - Positive Concert Flute 8' Dulciana 8' Flute 4' Orchestral Oboe 8' Clarinet 8' English Horn 8' Celesta (real steel chimes) Tremulant Second Manual - Great Double Open Diapason 8' First Open Diapason 8' Second Open Diapason 8' Waldflute 8' Dulciana 8' Octave 4' Flute 4' Twelfth 2 2/3' Fifteenth 2' Tromba 8' Clarion 4' (extension) Electronic echo device 8' Third manual – Swell Bourdon 16' Open Diapason 8' Gedackt 8' Octave 4' Salicional 8' Voix Celeste 8' Aeoline 8' Unda Maris 8' Flute 4' Piccolo 2' Mixture 5 ranks Double Trumpet 16' Cornopean 8' French Trumpet 8' Clarion 4' (extension) Vox Humana 8' Tremulant Fourth Manual - Echo Echo Dulciana 8' Unda Maris 8' Cor de Nuit 8' Concert Flute 8' Vox Humana 8' Tremulant Electronic echo device Pedal radial Contra Bourdon 32' Diapason 16' Bourdon 16' Echo Bourdon 16' (from Swell) Octave 8' (extension) Gedact 8' (from Swell) Double Trumpet (from Swell) Trombone 16' Tromba (extension) Electric manual and stop action Tutti preset Austin Organ Co., Opus 1819, 1933 OHS Database ID 13970. YMCA Jerusalem, Israel Concert Hall This organ is no longer whole; parts were dispersed, and some may have been re-used in a different installation. We received the most recent update on this organ's state and condition 2014-10-14. Printer-friendly version of this page. (Printer version is also compatible with most tablets.) YELLIN-BENTWICH, THELMA (1895–1959), Israeli cellist and pedagogue, a leading personality in the creation and shaping of musical life in Israel. She was born in England as the ninth child of the aristocratic Bentwich family, all the members of which received professional instrumental training. She studied at the Royal College of Music in London, and was accepted by Pablo Casals as a private pupil. In 1915 she founded in London the all-women trio with Myra *Hess and Jelly d'Arranyi. Yet the tensions of the life of a traveling professional soloist did not suit her nature. In 1919 she joined her brother and two sisters who had already settled in Jerusalem and married Eliezer Yellin, the son of David *Yellin. In 1921 she founded the Jerusalem Music Society which pioneered high quality weekly concerts of chamber music in Jerusalem to a cosmopolitan audience of Jews, Arabs, British, German, and members of other nationalities. The backbone of these concerts was the Jerusalem String Quartet, the first in the country, with her sister, violinist Margery Bentwich. In 1951 she joined the Israeli String Quartet with Lorand and Alice Fenyves (violins) and Oeden *Partos (viola). She also appeared with the Philharmonic and radio orchestras and taught cello and chamber music at the academies of music in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem as one of the most admired cello pedagogues in the country. Her plans for a "music gymnasium" for talented children came to fruition in 1962 in Tel Aviv when the Thelma Yellin Gymnasium was opened. BIBLIOGRAPHY: M. Bentwich, Thelma Yellin, Pioneer Musician (1964); J. Hirshberg, Music in the Jewish Community of Palestine 1880 – 1948 (1995). EBAY2069