Instruments / Vimoutiers
Notre-Dame de Vimoutiers
Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, 1899 · Vimoutiers, Normandy, France
About
The Cavaillé-Coll organ at the Église Notre-Dame in Vimoutiers, Normandy, France, was built in 1899.
It is, along with the organ at the Moscow Conservatory, the last organ built by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll whilst he was still alive.
It was inaugurated by Alexandre Guilmant and has also been played by other famous organists, notably Louis Vierne and Pierre Cochereau.
The town was bombed in WWII, luckily sparing the organ, although the stained glass windows needed to be replaced.
The organ underwent a few modifications over the years, including the addition of stops to the Positif and the Récit, but was faithfully restored to its original state in 2019 by the Pesce and Robert organ building company.
The organ has a divided case, allowing the rose window to be seen.
The Positif and Grand-Orgue are on the left side (when facing the instrument) while the Récit and the majority of the pedal pipes are on the right.
The Grand-Orgue is assisted with a barker lever, making the otherwise heavy action easier to play.
In the sample set, a stereo pair of mics recorded the organ roughly from around 20 meters away, which includes a large amount of the church acoustics.
Technical Information
- Sample and bit rate: 96kHz, 24 Bit
- 2 Channels (Stereo)
- Software required: Hauptwerk v4.2+
- Tremulant sampled chromatically for Voix Humaine; artificially generated for others
- All blower, stop, and action noises sampled
- Manual Compass C–g3
- Pedal Compass C–f1
- The Positif is not enclosed on the real instrument, however a hidden enclosure has been provided
Memory Requirements (Lossless)
- 24 Bit, 2 channels: 16.7 GB
- 16 Bit, 2 channels: 9.1 GB
Allow approximately 2 GB on top of these figures for minimum RAM requirements.
Console
Specification
I Grand-Orgue
- Bourdon 16
- Montre 8
- Flûte Harmonique 8
- Salicional 8
- Prestant 4
- Quinte 2⅔
- Doublette 2
- Plein Jeu III
- Trompette 8
- Clairon 4
II Positif
- Principal 8
- Cor de Nuit 8
- Unda Maris 8
- Flûte Douce 4
- Trompette 8 *
- Clarinette 8
III Récit Expressif
- Flûte Traversière 8
- Viole de Gambe 8
- Voix Céleste 8
- Flûte Octaviante 4
- Octavin 2
- Basson 16
- Trompette 8
- Basson et Hautbois 8
- Voix Humaine 8
- Clairon Harmonique 4
- Tremolo
Pédale
- Contrebasse 16
- Soubasse 16
- Basse 8
- Bombarde 16 *
Couplers
- G.O. Ventil
- II/I
- II/I Octave Graves
- III/I
- III/I Réc. to G.O.
- III/II
- III/II Octave Graves
- I/P
- II/P
- III/P
I Grand-Orgue
- Montre 8
- Prestant 4
- Doublette 2
II Positif
- Cor de Nuit 8
III Récit Expressif
- Flûte Traversière 8
- Viole de Gambe 8
- Flûte Octaviante 4
- Trompette 8
- Basson et Hautbois 8
- Tremolo
Pédale
- Soubasse 16
Couplers
- G.O. Ventil
- II/I
- II/I Octave Graves
- III/I
- III/I Réc. to G.O.
- III/II
- III/II Octave Graves
- I/P
- II/P
- III/P
Stops in red are activated by the corresponding division Anches.
* These anches stops are controlled by a reversible anches pedal.
Purchase
£200
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