A New Organ for the village church of St Niklaus in Olpe-Rehringhausen in Westphalia made in 1997
The church is Roman Catholic and stands in the hills of the Sauerland in a village of about 360 people. It is a small church, but with a good acoustic, built at the turn of the 20th century in traditional Gothic style with three Rhenish vaults. It was redecorated using modern fittings in the late 1970s. The village The new organ was designed in the tradition of Father Smith, using the surviving parts at St Mary's Finedon in Northamptonshire (Bernard Smith 1704), and St Lawrence Whitchurch, Little Stanmore, Middlesex (Gerard Smith 1716) as models.
A New Organ for the village church of St Niklaus in Olpe-Rehringhausen in Westphalia made in 1997

 

MANUALS I + II C - g³

   I.
   I. and I.
* I. or II.
* I. or II.
* I. or II.
* I. or II.
* I. or II.
   I.
   I.
   II.

Open Diapason
Stop Diapason
Principal
Nason Flute
Twelfth
Fifteenth
Tierce
Mixture
Trumpet
Trunk tremulant
8'
8'
4'
4'
2²/3'
2'
1³/5'
III
8'
Pedal
Bourdon
Bass Flute

16'
8'
   

Manual coupler II to I
Pedal couplers

The ranks marked * are available on either manual; the Stop Diapason can be used on both keyboards simultaneously.

Compass C - g³ and C - f¹ The pitch is a¹=440Hz.
The tuning is a Bach tuning developed by Mark Lindley.

The wind pressure is 58mm.


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