Organs of any style, size, use & action. Made with top quality materials and design, together with the latest technologies.
A project for a new organ can be an exciting experience for the congregation and church administration, also a challenging process. We can provide service and assistance to find the best musical and visual requirements in a feasible way.
New organs are all custom made for the place in question which every part and form will need to fit in a specific planned space. The start will be to study out which is the best location for the acoustics and visual aspect and then depending on space and budget the stop list (ranks of pipes) can be planned to suite a good specification. We do provide all the drawings including 3D visuals to help the client to see how the final organ will look and how it can be planned.
A pipe organ can be one of the most valuable investments for a church as if they are well built, can last for generations and also can give a true glorious experience during services that can help to make the liturgy richer and give inspiration to the congregation.
Organs might seem to be an expensive initial purchase, but taking into account on how much time they can service it shows that it can be a wise investment an also considering the fact that they are built with high durable quality materials and made by expert workmanship in an artistic way.
Organs of any style, size, use & action. Made with top quality materials and design, together with the latest technologies.
A project for a new organ can be an exciting experience for the congregation and church administration, also a challenging process. We can provide service and assistance to find the best musical and visual requirements in a feasible way.
New organs are all custom made for the place in question which every part and form will need to fit in a specific planned space. The start will be to study out which is the best location for the acoustics and visual aspect and then depending on space and budget the stop list (ranks of pipes) can be planned to suite a good specification. We do provide all the drawings including 3D visuals to help the client to see how the final organ will look and how it can be planned.
A pipe organ can be one of the most valuable investments for a church as if they are well built, can last for generations and also can give a true glorious experience during services that can help to make the liturgy richer and give inspiration to the congregation.
Organs might seem to be an expensive initial purchase, but taking into account on how much time they can service it shows that it can be a wise investment an also considering the fact that they are built with high durable quality materials and made by expert workmanship in an artistic way.
Organs of any style, size, use & action. Made with top quality materials and design, together with the latest technologies.
A project for a new organ can be an exciting experience for the congregation and church administration, also a challenging process. We can provide service and assistance to find the best musical and visual requirements in a feasible way.
New organs are all custom made for the place in question which every part and form will need to fit in a specific planned space. The start will be to study out which is the best location for the acoustics and visual aspect and then depending on space and budget the stop list (ranks of pipes) can be planned to suite a good specification. We do provide all the drawings including 3D visuals to help the client to see how the final organ will look and how it can be planned.
A pipe organ can be one of the most valuable investments for a church as if they are well built, can last for generations and also can give a true glorious experience during services that can help to make the liturgy richer and give inspiration to the congregation.
Organs might seem to be an expensive initial purchase, but taking into account on how much time they can service it shows that it can be a wise investment an also considering the fact that they are built with high durable quality materials and made by expert workmanship in an artistic way.
St.Lawrence Collegiate, Vittoriosa.
The Collegiate Parish Church of St. Lawrence in Vittoriosa has a remarkable pipe organ built in 1952 by the Italian firm of G. Tamburini. This was the 308th organ that Tamburini had built till that time. Along with this organ, in Malta, there are other seven examples, in which the Vittoriosa organ is the only one that is fully encased in a historic casework. Actually, the casework belongs to an organ that was previously installed which was made by Giuseppe Turriglio in 1728.
This Tamburini organ is found to be made in a solidly built structure and has a strong sound that is phonically based on the romantic style with also some particularities on the disposition planning that it has. It contains 1023 pipes, forming 16 stops played from 2 manuals (keyboards) of 61 notes each and a pedalboard of 32 notes. Apart from pipes, it has also a set of 13 tubular bells which are controlled from the Swell manual and Pedalboard. Seeing up the disposition, the organ has two types of foundation stops, a soft and a strong one, normally found in much larger organs. It has a rich selection of string-toned pipework on the Great division which is not quite common to find. One of these stops, a softly voiced 'Dulciana', forms the display pipes prospect. Normally display pipes are taken from the ‘Principale’ stop or similar. which is a strongly voiced foundation stop. Apart from this, it contains a special stop called ‘Eufonio’ which is a stop that was invented by Tamburini, a type of stop that is the only one of its type to be found over Malta.
Another special detail is that since the organ needed to be located in a specified restricted space the first largest pipes of the pedal division have a special action where two notes can sound from a single pipe. This allowed the builder to fit the organ in the available space by reducing the number of large pipes. It works in electro-pneumatic action which is robustly built but also fragile in the electrical section where it contains many tiny electrical wire
contacts. This action is found to be very reliable and fast in operation, but considering the elevated amount of moving parts, it can be also somewhat noisy when in action.
From time to time this instrument has received several touch-up repairs, but never a complete overhaul/restoration job
S p e c i f i c a t i o n
Great (Grande)
Principale 8’
Diapason 8’
Viola Gamba 8‘
Dulciana 8’
Ottava 4’
Ripieno 5 file
Unda Maris 8’
Octave Coupler
Pedal (Pedale)
Subbasso 16’
Basso 8’
Bordone 8’
Campane
Couplers
I-P
II-P
4' I-P
4' II-P
II-I
4' II-I
16' II-I
Compass
Manual: CC - c 61 notes
Pedal: CCC - G 32 notes
Swell (Recitativo)
Voce Celeste 8’
Eufonio 8’
Salicionale 8’
Flauto Traverso 8’
Flauto 4’
Nazardo 2 2/3’
Campane
Octave Coupler
Sub-Octave Coupler
Tuning
Wind pressure
Drawings
Photos
90mm for Great
75mm for Swell
85mm for action
Swell Pedal
Crescendo Pedal
Tremolo to Swell
Manual and foot pre-set pistons
Combinazione Libera (activating preset stops)
Accessories
440 Hz @ 20 °C - Equal temperament
Restoration
