We designed this positive to serve as either a large continuo organ or a small chapel organ. With its five registers, all divided into bass and treble, it is endowed with many possibilities as a solo instrument. Three examples were built together and delivered in the first half of 2006.
Opus IV for the chapel of the College of Emmanuel & St. Chad, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK.
Opus V for the chapel of Massey College, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.
Opus VI for Mr. Kerry Heimann, of Princeton, NJ.
The manual compass is 50 notes (C,D–d’’’) and the keyboard may be transposed from A440 to A415. The natural keys are of boxwood and the sharps of padouk, capped with ebony. The casework is of solid white oak with pipe-shades of rock maple. The organist may play comfortably while standing, or while seated at the tall bench provided (along with a foot-stool).
Removable panels shield the façade pipes during transport, as well as a fitted, padded cover for the whole instrument. The upper part of the organ, can be removed from the base, which contains the wind system. The organ can be easily transported in the back of a mini-van.
Because a continuo organ in regular use needs to be tuned frequently, the open metal pipes are fitted with tuning collars. This also allows the the organ to be put into various temperaments. The “native” temperament for these three organs (i.e. the one in which they were voiced) is the "Bach" temperament proposed by Bradley Lehmann (2005).
N.B. We gladly accept new orders for comparable instruments at any time. Future versions will include an expanded compass to A392. More modest versions of two, three or four stops are also available..
