Chest Organ with principal, 3 stops
Project and building: Walter Chinaglia, 2009
The Organ has been sold to the United Kingdom and is now part of a private collection of organs, harpsichords and harmoniums, The English Organ School & Museum (EOS): http://www.margaretphillips.org.uk/eos.htm
Stops:
Principale 8’
Ottava 4’
KrummhornRegal 8’
Tuning: any pitch and temperament
Keyboard: C1 – F5 (54 keys) ebony, ebony/bone; C1 can be tuned to 415 Hz
Transposition keyboard: A=390 - 415 - 430 - 440 - 465Hz
Pipes: open pipes in cypress, based on measures from renaissance organs
Case: solid cypress
Size: height: 100cm; width: 55 cm; depth: 93 cm, tower 52 x 48 x 268 cm
Mechanics: “a pironi”
Power-source: electric fan and bellow inside the organ
The square, entirely open pipes of the instrument are made of wood with the typical sound of a “principale”. Based on the only remaining historic organs of this kind in Innsbruck/Austria and Montepulciano/Italy, this organ reproduces the original characteristic sound, but at the same time it can be transported easily by separating the tower.
The Organ has been sold to the United Kingdom and is now part of a private collection of organs, harpsichords and harmoniums, The English Organ School & Museum (EOS): http://www.margaretphillips.org.uk/eos.htm
Stops:
Principale 8’
Ottava 4’
KrummhornRegal 8’
Tuning: any pitch and temperament
Keyboard: C1 – F5 (54 keys) ebony, ebony/bone; C1 can be tuned to 415 Hz
Transposition keyboard: A=390 - 415 - 430 - 440 - 465Hz
Pipes: open pipes in cypress, based on measures from renaissance organs
Case: solid cypress
Size: height: 100cm; width: 55 cm; depth: 93 cm, tower 52 x 48 x 268 cm
Mechanics: “a pironi”
Power-source: electric fan and bellow inside the organ
The square, entirely open pipes of the instrument are made of wood with the typical sound of a “principale”. Based on the only remaining historic organs of this kind in Innsbruck/Austria and Montepulciano/Italy, this organ reproduces the original characteristic sound, but at the same time it can be transported easily by separating the tower.
Canzona - Ottava 4’
Toccata - Principale e Ottava 4
David Rumsey, organist and expert on medieval organ culture about the Chest organ with principal:
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