If we were designing an ideal stock instrument for churches, what would it be like?
Would you have something along the lines of the old Moller Artistes?
I would think a 4-rank instrument with 2 manuals should be able to cover most of the needs of your average parish church and would have specifications like this:
Flute Rank: 97 Pipes
Diapason Rank: 73 pipes
String Rank: 85 Pipes
Reed Rank: 73 Pipes
The Flute Rank would provide 16', 8', 4', 2-2/3' and 2' pitches
The Diapason Rank would provide 8', 4' pitches
The String Rank would be available at 8', 4', 2-2/3', 2' pitches
And the Reed would be at 8' and 4' pitch Trompette or Oboe
The whole lot would be enclosed and it would be desirable to get the casework under 8' in height to ensure that it could fit into small chapels. It would be electric action to provide the option of a detached console.
A stock instrument like this could cut the costs of new organs, since it would be a standard design, with perhaps custom casework, which would not require a specialist organ-builder, and could be accommodated in any number of styles from ones with elaborate carvings, to plain timber boxes.
Would you have something along the lines of the old Moller Artistes?
I would think a 4-rank instrument with 2 manuals should be able to cover most of the needs of your average parish church and would have specifications like this:
Flute Rank: 97 Pipes
Diapason Rank: 73 pipes
String Rank: 85 Pipes
Reed Rank: 73 Pipes
The Flute Rank would provide 16', 8', 4', 2-2/3' and 2' pitches
The Diapason Rank would provide 8', 4' pitches
The String Rank would be available at 8', 4', 2-2/3', 2' pitches
And the Reed would be at 8' and 4' pitch Trompette or Oboe
The whole lot would be enclosed and it would be desirable to get the casework under 8' in height to ensure that it could fit into small chapels. It would be electric action to provide the option of a detached console.
A stock instrument like this could cut the costs of new organs, since it would be a standard design, with perhaps custom casework, which would not require a specialist organ-builder, and could be accommodated in any number of styles from ones with elaborate carvings, to plain timber boxes.
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