Pipe Organ Museum

[F Kalbrenner]

This is place I stumbled across on the internet wile researching a mobile organ (Orgue du Voyage) that I have been meaning to post a thread for but I never got round to because I only knew about through the odd photo on the internet, plus there is no English description of this place. But anyway from what I know this is supposed to be a pipe organ museum which I think is located somewhere on the edge of France near Germany.


The layout of the museum I think is interesting such as how the rank of pipes, components and special effects are positioned around the room. But also the keyboards positioned in the centre of the room along with the main console which uses touch screens instead of draw knobs or tabs.


The website that I just found which is for the company that built this instillation is only in German unfortunately but the page titled ‘the project’ is in English for some reason.



https://www.waldkircher-orgelbau.de/...armoutier.html

I also remember recently stumbling across some pictures of what looked like a small theatre organ displayed as a sort of exhibit piece. It wasn’t that theater organ that's located in an old factory with all the slides and stuff, this one was much smaller and I think it had only two manuals and it was located in a small room. I could probably find this instrument again but I’m just too lazy to do that.

[Havoc]

I have visited the place. It is in Marmoutier which is in the French Elzas. Rather small, the room you see is all there is. But in the church just 50 meters further there is a very nice Silbermann.

[voet]

The website ... is only in German unfortunately.

https://www.waldkircher-orgelbau.de/...armoutier.html

I use Google Chrome as my web browser. If you right click on a page it has an option to translate into English. It is not always the best translation, but usually it is sufficient to get the general meaning. However, I often translate back into the original language for organ specs, because they come up with some bizarre translations for some stop names that any organist would know.

Hope this helps.

Bill

[F Kalbrenner]

Thanks
I do sometimes use the Google translator to deal with language barriers but in the past I translated something by copying and pasting a paragraph or some of the page into the translator which I sometime find a bit tedious. So I think what you have recommended is probably going to be a lot better than what I have been doing.