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Specification for a new Meantone organ for placement in a Duke University Chapel swallows nest on middle north wall of the Duke Memorial Chapel Durham, North Carolina DISPOSITION: Great - Manual I Bourdon 16 * Principal 8 * Rohrflöte 8 Voce Umana (discant) 8 Flauto in Octave 4 Octave (discant/full °) 4 + Fifteenth 2 + Nineteenth 1 1/3 + Twenty Second 1 + Twenty Sixth 2/3 + Twenty Ninth 1/2 + Thirty Third & Thirty Sixth 1/3 & 1/4 + after 1st break, common with 26th & 29th Flauto in Twelfth 3 ] Cornetto (3, 2 & 1 3/5 , discant) III Trumpet (bass/discant) 8 * Brustwerk - Manual II Oak Gedackt 8 Oak Flute 4 Querfloitlein 2 Regal 8 Pedal Bourdon 16 * Principal 8 * Trumpet 8 * Great/Pedal coupler Tremulant + Ripieno registers that are added to registration by depressing Tiratutti pedal ° Octave plays only in discant when stop-knob is half drawn ] Cornetto forms discant Cornet III when drawn using Flautos in Twelfth & Fifteenth + Tierce * Manual stops playable in Pedal by transmission Discant of divided stops of Great may begin at c' or cis' depending on lever selection by performer Organ tuned in pure 1/4 th SC Meantone temperament pitched one half-tone below a' 440 Hz norm. The choice of eb/dis & gis/ab on 5 keys of each Manual and 2 Pedal keys is determined by two reversing pedals with status indicators. Keyboard compasses: Great, 47 keys: CDE - c''' in "gebrockene Octav" form; Brustwerk, 45 keys: CDEFGA - c''' in "kurz Octav" form; Pedal, 25 keys: CDE - d ' in Schnitgerian form Mechanical key action, suspended; mechanical stop action Metal flue pipes of finest tin/lead alloys, hammered and voiced for vocale sound Cone tuning used for open metal flue pipes; soldered domed hats for stopped metal pipes Façade pipe mouths gilded with 23 carat goldleaf Reeds arranged for easy tuning by the organist Large bass pipes of Bourdon and Principal made full length in wood, placed in room behind organ along with wind system consisting of wedge bellows winded by an electrical blower This Specification provides a versatile small Meantone organ with flexibility to perform a wide variety of the organ and choral literature well without being too specific to any particular national school or period, though it will be made in the manner of historic Italian organs in Tuscany of the early 16th century. Organ consists of 21 ranks, 23 stops, ca. 960 pipes Dedicated: 26 October 1997 University organists, Robert Parkins; David Arcus Chapel choir director, Rodney Winekoop; Minister to the University, William Willamon See Websites: http://www.chapel.duke.edu/ & http://www.chapel.duke.edu/organs/Brombaugh/default.htm
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