Noel Mander Chamber Organ

About

This chamber organ, built by Noel Mander, is a wonderful example of his work. It is currently at St. Peter and St. Paul church in Bromley, UK.

It is a great continuo instrument, suitable for accompanying a choir, performing solo pieces, or being used as part of an ensemble.

The keyboard lifts up and can be shifted to the left by one semitone to make it transpose to A=415Hz instead of its natural A=440Hz tuning.

Both the Stopt Diapason 8 and Flute 4 are of stopped wooden 'rohr' pipe form in the trebles and the Principal 4ft borrows the lowest 6 pipes from the 4ft flute.

However, in the sample set, the bass Principal pipes have been replaced to complete the full compass.

The organ sample set is available in 6 channels - Dry (sampled directly in front of the organ), Front (about 6 meters away), and Rear (about 15 meters away).

Dry is especially ideal if you want to imitate what the instrument could sound like in your current room; the other two perspectives as it sounds in the church itself from different proximities.

The key/stop action and blower were also sampled for the best realism.

Technical Information

• 24 Bit · 3 Perspectives (6 channels)
• Software required: Hauptwerk v4.2+
• Manual Compass C–g3

Memory Requirements (Lossless)

• 24 Bit, 6 channels: 3.6 GB
• 16 Bit, 6 channels: 2.1 GB
• 24 Bit, 2 channels (Dry): 1.4 GB
• 16 Bit, 2 channels (Dry): 0.9 GB

Dry sample ranks require slightly less memory than Front and Rear channels. Allow approximately 2 GB on top of these figures for minimum RAM requirements.