The Faucher Organ Company of Biddeford, ME has recently completed their Opus #9 for St.
Catherine of Siena Church in Preston, CT. It replaced an electronic. Budget
limitations and lack of available floor space almost precluded the option of a
pipe instrument. Faucher designed the main organ case to be completely hung off
the concrete wall allowing for head clearance for the choir members. The 16'
Bourdon chest was also symmetrically hung. Blower, reservoir and the firm's own
solid-state switching system are discreetly installed within the central window
well, housed within matching casework. The oak rolltop console is equipped with
a multi-level combination action. The 8' Principal basses comprise the facade
which screens the structural swell box housing the rest of the pipes. The
compact main chest was computer designed by the firm's own proprietary CAD
program. The organ's six ranks allow true quint and tierce mutations, string
and celeste, flute and principal tone families. The tonal outcome was enhanced
by lack of church carpeting. Craftsmen on this project included Larry Ouellete,
shop foreman; Tom Kovacevic, solid-state; Steve Leighton, console; Ron Goulet,
P.E., engineer; Tom Snow, technician. Design and tonal finishing were performed
by Robert Faucher, president and artistic director. Pastor of the church is
Rev. James P. Carini.
GREAT
8' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Principal
8' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Rohrgedeckt
8' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Dulciana
4' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Octave
4' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Gedeckt
22/3' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Twelfth
2' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Fifteenth
22/3' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Sesquialtera II
11/3' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Mixture III
Chimes
SWELL
8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Stopped
Diapason
8' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Viol
8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Viol
Celeste
4' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Principal
4' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Gedeckt
4' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Violina
22/3' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Nazard
2' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Piccolo
13/5' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Tierce
11/3' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Quintflute
1' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Fife
PEDAL
16' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Bourdon
8' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Principal
8' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Gedecktbass
51/3' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Quintbass
4' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Choralbass
4' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Flute
22/3' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Mixture III
The Roche Organ Company of Taunton, MA, has built a new mechanical action organ, its opus 35, for the Westminster Unitarian Church in East Greenwich, RI. The eight-rank, one manual and pedal instrument is located in the rear corner of the square-shaped room and is diagonally opposite the pulpit. The V-shape of the case top and pipe facade was suggested by the minister, The Rev. Frederick E. Gillis, to complement the period and architectural lines of the 1963 concrete and wood building, which seats 80. The case is of red oak and the facade pipes are of polished 75% tin. The manual keyboard has natural key platings of grenadilla, and pear wood sharps with bone tops. Barbara Owen served as consultant for the church. The dedicatory recital was played by Lee Ridgway. The Stopped Flute is made of wood; the Principal is 70% tin; Viola, Octave, and Quint are 50% tin; Spire Flute, Nazard, and Tierce 30% tin. Compass is 56/30.
MANUAL
8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Stopped
Flute Treble/Bass
8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Viola
Treble
4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Principal
Treble/Bass
4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Spire
Flute Treble/Bass
22/3' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Nazard Treble
2'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Octave
Treble/Bass
13/5' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Tierce Treble
11/3' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Quint Treble/Bass
PEDAL
16'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Bourdon
(ext)
Visser Rowland Associates, Inc.,
style='font-weight:normal'> Houston, TX, has built a new organ for Holy Trinity
Episcopal Church, Gainesville, FL. The 40-stop organ was built in 1994 and
installed in January and February of 1995. Pieter Visser designed and voiced
the entire organ and supervised its construction. The organ is split in two
cases: the south case houses the pedal and the north case houses the manual
divisions. Chest layouts in the manuals are the company's standard tierce
layout and the pedal chest is diatonic. The wind system has two wedge bellows,
one for the pedal and one for the manuals and wooden wind trunks throughout;
the wind has a gentle living character. The mechanical action for the pedal has
a thirty-nine foot run; mechanical key action has a traverse roller board
mounted under each wind chest built entirely out of wood. The console is
detached from the organ case so the organist can play and direct the choirs.
Consultant was the church music director David Benson.
RUGWERK Manual I
8' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Praestant
8' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Gedekt
4' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Octaaf
4' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Spitsfluit
22/3' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Nasard
2' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Superoctaaf
13/5' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Terts
1'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Kleinmixtuur
III
8' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Kromhoorn
Tremulant
HOOFDWERK Manual II
16' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Bourdon
8' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Praestant
8' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Roerfluit
4' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Octaaf
4' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Nachthoorn
22/3' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Kwint
2' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Woudfluit
22/3' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Sesquialter II
2'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Mixtuur
V
8' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Trompet
ZWELWERK Manual III
8' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Holpijp
8' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Gemshoorn
8' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Gemshoornceleste
8' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Salicionaal
4' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Praestant
4' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Koppelfluit
2' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Octaaf
11/3' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Scherp V
16' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Fagot
8' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Trompet
4' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Klaroen
Tremulant
PEDAALWERK
32' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Subbas
16' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Praestant
16'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Gedektbas
(12 pipes)
8' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Octaafbas
8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Gedekt
(12 pipes)
4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Koraalbas
(12 pipes)
22/3' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Mixtuur IV
16' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Posaune
8' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Trompet
4' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Schalmei
COUPLERS
I
+ II
style='mso-tab-count:1'> III
+ II
III
+ I
I
+ Pedaal
II
+ Pedaal
III
+ Pedaal
J F. Nordlie Company,
Sioux Falls, SD, has built a new organ for Ferris University, Yokohama, Japan.
The firm's opus 29 is a practice organ for the ground floor classroom of Ferris
Hall on the Yamate Campus. The organ is inspired by romantic "catalog
organs" of the last century, specifically Hooks from the 1870s and 1880s,
prompted by growing interest in 19th-century performance practice and
repertoire. (Ferris has neo-classic organs by the Noack and Taylor & Boody
workshops.) The century-old school has over 90 organ students. Tonal and visual
designs were limited by budget and low ceiling. Sharing the Bourdon between
manuals (a common feature of the smaller Hook catalog organs) and using stopped
basses of differing scale for the 8' open ranks allows encasement and
expression via a balanced Swell pedal. No pipes stand in the facade; rather,
swell shades and a black walnut screen echo the shape of a 19th-century
art-glass window found in Ferris' Old Main. The Prestant-Diapason duplex is an
either/or register; drawing one retires the other stop. Mechanical key and stop
actions; steady wind by box reservoir, curtain valve, and high speed electric
blower; WP 75 mm; casework of oiled white ash with black walnut trim; ebony and
boxwood-plated sugar pine keyboards; eight engraved bone-plate labelled boxwood
drawknobs; oak pedal keys with maple and walnut plates; pedalboard form and
console dimensions are taken from Cavaillé-Coll. Metal pipework is of
traditional tin/lead alloys (flue pipes, Andreas Grunemann, Be-theln; Oboe by
Roland Killinger, Stuttgart); wood pipes were made in the Nordlie workshop of
black walnut and poplar; 9 stops, 6 ranks, 310 pipes; compass 56/30; tremulant
and ventil for Flute and Oboe by foot treadles; I/Pedal, II/Pedal, II/I by foot
treadles. Principal organ instructors at Ferris are Professors Yuko Hayashi and
Tomoko Miyamoto. University Chancellor Seigo Nakajima approved the project
after meeting with Nordlie Co. designer David Beyer. Shipping, delivery, and
set-up were coordinated by Masami Ishida of Ferris' Business Office. Installers
were John Nordlie and David Beyer, with assistance from Miss Nami Hamada, a
prep student. Builders of the organ included Donald, Dale, Paul & Trintje Nordlie—immediate family of
John; Eric Grane, Martin Larsen, and David Beyer, technical staff; Christian
Boy and Jason Hankin, apprentices; and Gloria Ochsner, office staff.
MANUAL I
8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Open
Diapason/or
4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Prestant
(duplex)
8' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Bourdon
MANUAL II
8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Bourdon
(shared with Man I)
8' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Salicional
4' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Flute
8' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Oboe
PEDAL
16' style='mso-tab-count:1'> SubBass
Bedient Pipe Organ Co., Lincoln, NE, has built a new organ, opus 42, for St. Mary's on the Harbor Episcopal Church, Provincetown, MA. The three-stop, three-rank instrument has a case of white oak, pipe shades of red gum, and features mechanical key and stop action. The organist is Gary Miles; pastor is The Rev. George Wells.
MANUAL
8' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Gedackt
4' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Rohrflute
2' style='mso-tab-count:1'> Praestant
PEDAL
Manual/Pedal
