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Author Topic: Organ Console??? William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-16-2005 02:42 AM                        quote: Keep 'em coming! Cool, a place for organ tech types to geek out with people who will appreciate it! The interior of a 3-stage, 10 hp Spencer Steel Orgoblo; one fan & one deflector installed. Earlier shot of blower disassembled, before being sandblasted & painted. A Robert Morton "dice box" regulator (for a xylophone) being soaked in water for disassembly prior to rebuild & releathering. No wonder your organ doesn't work; the pipes are on the floor with most of the ceiling & the tibia tremulant isn't even hooked up!  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 02-16-2005 04:40 AM                     Okey, Will and Floyd...here some more goodies to gander at: The 1531 organ at St Bertrand de Cominge in France The 1557 organ at St. Savin en Lavedan in France The 1504 organ at Perpignan in France The 1862 Clicquot/Cavaille-Coll of St. Sulpice in France The 1889 Cavaille-Coll in Toulouse St. Sernin in France -Monte  |  IP: Logged Floyd Justin Newton Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 559 From: Phoenix, Arizona, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 02-16-2005 11:25 AM                     Monte-- Beautiful! Just beautiful.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-16-2005 07:45 PM                     Way cool Monte! I bet thay blow some old dust from those pipes once in a while! Mark  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 02-16-2005 09:31 PM                     quote: I bet thay blow some old dust from those pipes once in a while! thx Marko... These picts that I've posted of the organs in France, is just a very small inkling on what's over there in Europe. Also, these organs have been restored to full playing condition. The "le Grande Orgue" at St. Sulpice in Paris, France, is in daily use to this day with daily masses and evening concerts. This organ has only been restored once since the rebuild by Cavaille-Coll in 1862, outside of adding a motorized blower in the mid 20's. The Cavaille-Coll at the St. Sulpice is on the country's historical registers as the most famous organ in all of France, and almost of all of mainland Europe. The St. Sulpice is also the largest organ that Cavaille-Coll built, even though it was a rebuild, but Aristide Cavaille-Coll added more ranks and pipes to make it the size that it is of today, which is almost 9000 pipes. -thx Monte  |  IP: Logged Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 02-17-2005 12:36 AM                     Too bad Cavaille-Coll never built an instrument in the US. Unfortunately most of his organs have suffered the same fate as most of Ernest Skinners organs---attempts to make them tonally into something else.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 02-19-2005 05:51 AM                     This group is of the Haberbeer/Schnitger organ at St.Laurenkirk in Alkmaar, in Holland. The Schnitger organ was built in 1643, rebuilt in 1723 by Schnitger. There are 15 stops and 1100 pipes for the Positiv division. There are 14 stops and 1050 pipes for the Great division There are 15 stops and 1550 pipes for the Oberwerk division There are 13 stops and 550 pipes for the Pedaal division ----- 1- the facade pipes with the doors opened - 2- the Playtable. As with all of the early organs in Europe, there was no console, being that the pipes were directly above the keyboards due to the mechanical, or tracker action from keys to pallets, or valves for air to enter in the pipes. 3 - Contestants for competition at the playtable of the Schnitger 4 - Another contestant at the Playtable 5- Tuning up the Positiv section of the Schnitger - Monte  |  IP: Logged

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