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St. Denis C-C

smilingvox

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Does anybody have any photos of the interior of the 1841 Cavaille-Coll in St. Denis? Possibly including photos of the two 32' ranks in the Pedale?
 

Thierry59

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Saint-Denis

smilingvox said:
Does anybody have any photos of the interior of the 1841 Cavaille-Coll in St. Denis? Possibly including photos of the two 32' ranks in the Pedale?
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I have visited several times the interior of the ACC opus 1 with Pierre Pincemaille, but unfortunately I hadn't taken my camera:crazy:
Next time I'll do it!
 

dll927

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Is there something unique about the interior of that particular organ?

Also, if one of the 32's is a flue and the other a reed, they won't resemble each other, anyway. Plus, why isn't the 32 flue out in plain sight like most are?
 

Thierry59

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There are three 32's in this magnificent organ:
- Montre in façade (Great organ manuel)
- Flute in the interior (pedal)
- Contre-bombarde in the interior (pedal)
 

smilingvox

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dll, I'm interested in organ interiors in general. This is a special organ, because it is C-C's first and it's large. Usually, a builder's Opus 1 is small, or even medium-sized. I like looking at details of pipe construction.

Thierry, I looked at a stoplist in a CD booklet and it said that the Grande Orgue 32' Montre went down to only tenor-C (16-foot C). I just noticed this and was asking myself, "Okay, so does this mean that the longest facade pipe is not 32'?" All along, I believed that this stop covered the whole compass.

Some buildings, in which organs are housed, are so large, that it makes an organ appear smaller than it really is. I've never been to St. Denis, so photos are the only things I've been going on. Perhaps this was a misprint in the stoplist (I hope).
 
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dll927

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Few organs have a 32 in the manuals, so that is fairly unusual.

As for seeing the pipe construction, with enough experience one can learn to recognize by sight which rank is which stop within a given division. Certainly a "chimney flute" or a vox should be recognizable, as would be some of wooden ranks. Wood is almost certain to mean "open diapason" of some type or a flute.
 

Thierry59

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ACC Saint Denis

Very soon, some links on the interior of the ACC opus 1 (a prototype) to come.
Concerning the "montre 32'" it is in fact a 16' as the first octave is mute (GO).
 
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