Saint John’s Abbey Organ Builders, Collegeville, Minnesota, announces the contract to build its Opus 5 for Saint Louis Bertrand Catholic Church, Louisville, Kentucky, a parish founded in 1866 and staffed continuously by Dominican friars.
The three-manual, 36-stop instrument will feature a detached, reversed console with mechanical key action and electric stop action with multi-level combination action. Its tonal design draws inspiration from 19th-century German builders such as Carl August Buchholz and Friedrich Ladegast. The Hauptwerk and Nebenwerk divisions will be largely enclosed.
A distinctive feature of this project will be the inclusion of a Physharmonika, a set of free reed stops played from a third manual and located in the console. The two Äoline stops will be dynamically expressive through variable wind pressure. Installation is scheduled for 2029.
For infomation: sjaorgans.org and stlb.org.
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