I’m trying to get my cousin to raise the pitch of the whole song an octave, so we’ll all have a reference point.
Good idea. I did this and the clip starts just before the first instance and ends after the second instance of the low note:
And here is a 2 octave pitch shift - same segment.
Damn thing sounds like a B♮ (passing to B♭) now.
I don’t remember how I checked it before, but I thought I had somehow found it to be at 28 Hz, an octave below the regular low note.
With No Scrubs, it’s more of a shudder than a note. Main system has two 15” Martin Logan Dynamo subs.
Desktop Mac with an external amp and NHT 1.5 speakers - just a hint of something but equally important, no bad sounds even at max volume.
The Throne Room track of Time Warp, well then! That makes my chest quiver and my eyes get blurry and that’s why I have two stonking 15” subs. 
Yes, but I feel like I cheated a little because I played it on the Amazon music app instead of YouTube.
I’m using a Schiit Hel DAC/Amp into Hifiman Edition XS headphones. I heard it pretty clearly at 1:41, felt it a couple of times after that. I could not hear it at all on my speakers, but I do not have my sub hooked up.
@MindsEye_Watering, thanks for posting those! Youtube is blocked for me right now, but I’ll check it out later.
Wikipedia tells me that the tune is in G♯ minor.
The note played here (on the organ) from 4:32 to 4:36 will damage your woofers.
Cued up to 4:30:
Dude, that’s like two octaves higher than the note we’re tracking down.
Thanks! This version makes it really clear!
Nah, that’s just a warmup for Philip Glass’ Koyaanisqatsi. There’s so many different low organ notes in the opening that it’s good for finding stuff in the house that wants to vibrate and buzz.
Can I interest you in a binaural recording of a Falcon Heavy launch, as heard from the vehicle assembly building? Video here is cued to 3:11, 15 seconds before liftoff; add in 15 seconds of delay due to the 3-mile distance from the launch pad, and you should hear the first sounds about 25 seconds after you push play.
The lowest note I hear there is a D2 (73.42 Hz). That’s not terribly low; a decent pair of bookshelf speakers should be able to handle that without exploding.
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Wikipedia tells me that the tune is in G♯ minor.
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Enharmonically equivalent. Most people use G# minor, but I can see using using Ab minor instead to avoid the double sharps or making it easier to play on wind instruments.
Now a real pipe organ… this clip claims that this organ
has a 128’ stop. As a rough estimate, such an open pipe would have a fundamental frequency around 4 Hz, which would be pretty impressive blasting, but I do not think your bookshelf speakers are going to do it; you would need something by Doc Brown. By comparison, a contrabass tuba only goes down to about A0 or Ab0 (~26 Hz).
Which is it? Can it be deduced from the actual tuning used in the actual clip? If you look at a basic MIDI chart then it lists Bb0 = A#0 and B0 = Cb0, of course.
Harps sound better in flat keys (C-flat major versus B major, for instance), but a quick search reveals plenty of piano compositions in A-flat minor (could be to avoid double-sharps as suggested, or maybe there is a more theoretical reason).
Since it uses equal temperament, there’s no 100% perfect way to know without seeing the sheet music. But, given the instrumentation and style, I would suspect they’d have written it in G# minor, using B and E instead of Cb and Fb. Those notes tend to exist only in older styles and with transposing instruments.
Still, I would never count anyone as wrong if they said the song “is in Ab.”
I do tend to call bullshit, however, as this, more authoritative-looking page, including sound samples,
claims that the world record is a 64’ stop (8 Hz) and that there exist only two such organs.
One would expect so; it’s hard to tell exactly (though supposedly some of you have perfect perfect pitch, etc, so…?)