[Theme] The Organ Thread

[Akira]

Wow, gorgeous console!

[Eb]

A new world organ , pipes detail, at Christ Church Cathedral, Fredericton, N.B.  I'm told it is a Casavant Frères, Quebec built, 1957, the replacement of a 1912 instrument destroyed in a fire.

[Airy]

and nice colors too. The front pipes are made of tin, despite the copper-like color : such welding quality would be impossible to achieve with copper. I wonder how they did it (some kind od varnish ? probably renewed recently ?)

[Frank Fremerey]

Very cool subject and color scape. Take.

[elsa hoffmann]

my first organ photo - not very impressive though, but with a huge history
taken in "de Groote Kerk" Cape Town - corner stone laid in December 1700
The current organ has 5 917pipes, four "manuale" and pedals and a console with 102 registers. The longest pipe is 9,5m long with a circumference of 254mm and the shortest is 6mm long with a circumference of  2,5mm. Pipes were made of copper, tin and wood.

[Frank Fremerey]

A very perfect shot. Textbook. And a very appealing subject. I like the wave formed by the pipes! And the wood.

[Airy]

Thanks for joining the club. Do you know the builder? Note: not sure about the original, but "diameter" instead of "circumference" would be correct.

[Akira]

Elsa, this is impressive and elegant!

[Jakov Minić]

Elsa, very symmetric, my dear 

[Thomas G]

I thought this was St Marien in Stralsund, but I'm quite sure now that it's somewhere else.

This is the organ in St Nikolai, a major church build from 1381 to 1487 in Wismar, Germany.
Wiki link English, Wiki Link deutsch

[Airy]

Confirmed ! but I do not know either. Have you tried google images ?

[Frank Fremerey]

Thomas. Thank you for the contribution. A bit of research would be most helpful.

[Thomas G]

Thomas. Thank you for the contribution. A bit of research would be most helpful.

Frank, please see above. I finally was able to identify the church.

[Airy]

Thanks for the links ; a very intersting organ (on paper at least) with an unusual look.

[Airy]

Organs without cases were fashionable between 1930 and 1960, approximately. Not such a good idea because the pipework gets exposed to dust and falling plaster, also because the sound easily gets dispersed in all directions. From a purely musical point of view, there are good and bad ones, and the manufacturing quality had more to suffer from the economic crises and wars than from the absence of casing. Still, such organs often get associated with "bad quality" without further checking, which is stupid.

This one, in Lille, is from 1950. It is a very solid organ with good tonal qualities, and one of the feww organs here that were recorded by first-rate organists (Gaston Litaize in that case, and several times).

What you see is only the pipework of the "choir" organ, i.e. a smaller set of pipes located low at the gallery girder, in the back of the organist who faces the main body of pipes. The choir organ is played via the second manuel (out of three) in this case; usually (17th-18th centuries) it would be the first.