Piotr Grabowski Goch Hauptwerk

在德国北莱茵-威斯特法伦州戈赫镇的圣玛丽亚·玛格达莱纳教堂内，有一座由凯弗拉尔的罗马努斯·塞弗特父子公司在2015年建造的新管风琴。该教堂原有的1958年塞弗特管风琴在1993年塔楼坍塌中被毁。新琴采用法国交响乐风格，共42个音栓，充分利用哥特式教堂的长混响。其左侧和右侧的脚踏音塔模仿教堂塔楼风格，以纪念坍塌事故。乐器分为四个分部：大管风琴（I）、表情部（II，封闭式）、独奏部（III，电动控制）和脚踏部。大管风琴具有完整的16’至2’主合唱。表情部音色丰富，包含谐音音栓、弦乐和人声8’等独奏音色，并在颤音状态下采样。独奏部类似于鲁昂圣旺修道院的卡瓦耶-科尔管风琴，包含罕见的8’大提琴音栓。脚踏部有两个32’哨管音栓，其中低音区因空间限制部分音管被安置于墙壁和地板中。采样集中还增加了踏板分区功能和可选的音管延迟模拟效果。键盘原始音域为C-g3，脚踏为C-f1，在采样集中分别扩展至c4和g1。

Situated in the St. Maria Magdalena church in Goch, a region in Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany, we find a new organ built by Romanus Seifert & Sohn from Kevelaer in 2015. Before the spire collapse in the year of 1993, a Seifert organ built in 1958 had been used until it was buried under the remains of the collapsed tower.

The instrument we find in Goch today is an organ conceived in the French symphonic style with 42 stops, which makes perfect use of the long reverb in its gothic church. Furthermore looking at the casework of the organ, one can see that the pedal towers to the left and right of the organ resemble the style of the church tower and therefore can be seen as a reminder of the tower collapse.

The organ consists of 4 divisions: Grand Orgue (I), Récit expressif (II, enclosed), Solo (III) and Pédale. All divisions have tracker action apart from the Solo, which is controlled by electric action. The Grand Orgue features a full principal chorus from 16′ to 2′. It has a full and clear sound, which makes a perfect foundation to add the reed stops. The Récit is very versatile with its cornet decomposé made of harmonic stops, beautiful strings and solo voices such as the Voix Humaine 8′. Each of the stops from Récit were sampled with the tremulant engaged to get the most realistic impression. As for the Solo division, it has been conceived in a rather similar manner as the Cavaillé-Coll organ in Saint-Ouen Abbey in Rouen. In fact the Grand Orgue has only one reed stop on its own, so if the organist wants to couple the chorus reeds (without the mixture which is found in the GO), it’s necessary to couple the 3rd manual to the 1st. Also the missing harmonic flute in the Grand Orgue is found in the Solo division as well as a rather interesting and rare stop: Violoncelle 8’. In the pedal division there are two 32′ flue stops: Sousbasse and Violonbasse. The latter’s lowest octave is made of 16′ and 10 2/3′ ranks playing together. Because of space issues the lowest pipes are outside the organ case and can be found built into the wall and into the flooring (placed horizontally). Thanks to Super II an P and Super III an P couplers, the pedal division can be used as a solo voice with a wide range of sounds.

In the sample set Pedal split function was added (accessible from Simple Jamb page). It divides the pedal keyboard into two zones: the lower one (C-H (C2-B2)) uses only pedal stops and ignores pedal couplers, the higher one (c-g1 (C3-G4)) doesn’t play pedal stops, but uses only coupled divisions.

Another new feature is Pipe delays option. It introduces small delays, mostly to reed pipes, to achieve more realistic effect. It can be disabled in the Settings tab.

The keyboards have an original range from C-g3 (C2-G6) (extended to c4 (C7) in the sample set) and the Pédale from C-f1 (C2-F4) (extended to g1 (G4) in the sample set).