Disposition

  • Principale 8’ (bass/treble)

  • Ottava 4’

  • Decimaquinta 2’

  • Decimanona 1 1/3’

  • Vigesimaseconda 1’

  • Flauto in ottava 4’

  • Voce umana 8’ (treble)

  • Tremolo

Organ by Organi Famiglia Pradella (Caiolo, Italy, 2024) with pipework based on the organ attributed to Costanzo Antegnati at the Chiesa dei Santi Eusebio e Vittore in Peglio, Italy (c. 1608, restored by Giovanni Pradella in 2013). Façade inspired by the 1565 organ by Graziado Antegnati at the Basilica palatina di Santa Barbara in Mantua, Italy.

Italian Renaissance Organ

324 pipes in hand-hammered lead, zinc and tin (Principale), and red cedar (CDEF of Ottava and Flauto in ottava). Façade with 15 tin pipes of the Principale (d–e’) in three flats of 5+5+5 pipes. The longest 12 pipes of the Principale (CDEF as “Haskell” pipes, fully open from G) in zinc are located in the rear case. Slider chest in red cedar, stop action with levers in walnut arranged in a single column to the right of the keyboard. Suspended action with hand-made iron roller-arms. Keyboard of  50 notes, C/E short octave–c’’’ with five split accidentals (e♭/d♯, g♯/a♭, e♭’/d♯’, g♯’/a♭’, e♭’’/d♯’’), key coverings in boxwood and walnut. Pedal of 9 notes C/E short octave–c in walnut as permanent pull-down with strips of fabric. Pitch a’=440 Hz at 21°C, 1/4-comma meantone temperament. Two wedge-shaped bellows with four pleats to be hand-drawn with leather straps and electric motor in the base of the organ; wind pressure 41 mmH2O.

The organ is part of Mario Aschauer’s collection of historical keyboard instruments.