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Home > Music > Organs > Brombaugh > Brombaugh Specification
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John Brombaugh and Associates, Opus 34
Completed in the summer of 1997, this organ consists of 21 ranks,
23 stops, and approximately 960 pipes. It is located in a “swallow’s
nest” gallery on the middle north wall of the Memorial Chapel.
Specification
Organ tuned in pure 1/4th SC meantone temperament pitched one
half-tone below a' at 440 Hz norm. The choice of D-sharp/E-flat
and G-sharp/A-flat on five keys of each manual and two pedal keys
is determined by two levers.
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 fine tin-lead alloys, hammered and voiced for vocale
sound; the Italian pipes are modelled after Tuscan pipes from
1480, 1551, and 1612. Cone tuning used for open metal flue pipes;
soldered domed hats for stopped metal pipes. Façade pipe
mouths gilded with 23-carat gold leaf. 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.
Disposition
See footnotes following list.
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+
33rd & 36th 1/3 & 1/4+; after 1st
Flauto in Twelfth 3†
Flauto in Fifteenth 2†
Cornetto (discant) III (3, 2 & 1 3/5)
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, in Schnitgerian form, adjustable
Footnotes
+ 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 by using Flautos in
12th, 15th & 17th
* 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
John Brombaugh & Associates, Inc.
325 North Brooklyn
Eugene OR 97403-2338 USA
Shop phone: (541) 726-9323
Shop fax: (541) 726-9393
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