A "Cecilian" creature:

The Choir Organ by Rudolph Ibach /  A. M. Poggi  (1907) at
the Basílica del Sagrado Corazón

          

                                                                                  

                                                                                 

                                                                                 

       




The organ Specification:

Builder:  Rudolph Ibach - installed by Alberto Mateo Poggi - year 1907 -
Manual Compass: Do 1 - La 5
Pedal Compass: Do 1 -Fa 3 

Action: Tubular pneumatic.

Number of speaking stops: 7
Keyboard splitted at Do 3


Manual:

Bordón 16´
Principal 8´
Viola de Gamba 8´
Voz Celeste 8´
Flauta Octaviante 4´
Bordón 8´ (bajo)
Bordón 8´ (discanto)
Fagot 8´ (bajo) 
Oboe 8´ (discanto)

Pedal:

Bordón 16 ´ (from manual)


I/Ped
Sub I
Super I

Fixed Combinations:  P-F-T
Tremulant
Reeds off
Exp. Pedal (whole organ) 

Listen music by Charles Tournemire:

Listen music by Robert Schumann:

                                                                                     

The Old British Lady in the City of Buenos Aires...

The Forster & Andrews Organ (1882) at First Evangelical Methodist Church

"Katherine at the organ"

The biggest and the smallest

Inaugural Day after restoration

An alternative considered before 

installation

The 1882 dispatch order - Courtesy of the city of Hull-(England)

Karina Kohoutek - Factotum Restaurationibus Eméritus

                                                                    

Note published  in May 13th - 1890

by "The Standard"

Organ Tour 2025

Kimberly Marshall, Ezequiel Menéndez

and  advanced students from Arizona and Massachusetts

USA

Sebasstian Achenbach

Renee Anne Louprette

Lindsey Johnson

Builder:  Forster & Andrews (1882) - Hull, England

Organ Specification:

Mechanical action
Slide Chests


Manual Compass:..... Do 1 - La 5
Pedal Compass:...........Do 1 - Fa 3
Number of speaking stops : 28


Great Organ  (Manual II)

    •    Double Open Diapason 16'
    •    Open Diapason 8'
    •    Clarabella 8'
    •    Dulciana 8'
    •    Principal 4'
    •    Harmonic Flute 4'
    •    Piccolo 2'
    •    Trumpet 8' (under restoration)


Swell Organ (Manual III)

    •    Bourdon 16'
    •    Open Diapason 8'
    •    Lieblich - gedackt 8'
    •    Salicional 8'
    •    Voix celeste 8'
    •    Principal 4'
    •    Suabe flote 4'
    •    Flageolet 2'
    •    Mixture 3 ranks
    •    Horn 8'
    •    Oboe 8'
    •    Vox humana 8'
    •    Trémolo

Choir Organ (Manual I)

    *   Chimney Flute 8'
    •    Gamba 8'
    •    Dulciana 8'
    •    Flauta travesera 4'
    •    Flautino 2'
    •    Clarinet 8'
 
Note: This section is waiting for restoration. Pipes are not original. Late addition with french
          materials and pneumatic action.


Pedal

    •    Open Diapason 16'
    •    Bourdon 16'
    •    Violoncello 8'


Couplers:

  Swell to Great
  Swell to Great suboctave
  Swell to Great superoctave
  Swell to Pedal
  Great to Pedal (left and right in keydesk)
  Great to Pedal "appel et renvoi" lever over pedalboard


Fixed Mechanical Combinations: (levers over pedalboard)

Swell: P-MF-F-FF
Great: P-MF-F


Expression Swell
Expression Choir  (waiting for restoration)


Listen: John Stanley´s  Voluntary in G






"Highland Cathedral" (Organ+Bagpipe)

Available at First Methodist Church