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http://www.glucknewyork.com/Stoplists/Opus11.pdf

It looks like a very nice instrument, but I note that there is a lot of borrowing/extension.  In reality, if my count is correct, there are only 22 ranks in that organ, though several have extensions:  6 in the Grande Orgue; 10 in the Recit Expressif; none in the Positif (all borrowed); and 6 in the Pedale.  That, of course, is not necessarily a bad thing, but it does make the Stop List look a lot more impressive than is reality.  I'm not enough of an organist to know if that scheme of rank usage is a good one--I'll leave that determination to experts such as Soubasse32 and others here.  (Note:  I only counted the Fourniture II-IV as 2 ranks.)

David

What a delightful little organ and what a lovely console!  They probably did this for well under $500,000.  If the same stops were all straight, the cost could have been $1 million.  And this may not a be a large church.

My only caveat is that such designs should come with a laminated chart that tells the organist(s) exactly how the stops are borrowed and distributed.  Then the instrument may be used to maximum versatile effect without accidentally overdoing it.

MenchenStimme:

My only caveat is that such designs should come with a laminate chart that tells the organist(s) exactly how the stops are borrowed and distributed.  Then the instrument may be used to maximum versatile effect without accidentally overdoing it.

Amen! I cannot even describe how many instruments I have played, and to my dismay, have stumbled upon pitch drop-out from unification!

I rather like the neat little organ Gluck put in the chapel at First Pres. in New York. It has a lot of character (amidst the unification ).

Violoncelle
 

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Love the look of that organ.  All that nice wood. No plastic in sight!

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MenchenStimme:

What a delightful little organ and what a lovely console!  They probably did this for well under $500,000.  If the same stops were all straight, the cost could have been $1 million.  And this may not a be a large church.

My only caveat is that such designs should come with a laminated chart that tells the organist(s) exactly how the stops are borrowed and distributed.  Then the instrument may be used to maximum versatile effect without accidentally overdoing it.

Under $500,000?  You couldn't even buy a Rubenstein R-371 grand piano for that amount.

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when u r a stellar figure in the organ mafia then u can afford a discount to put a feather in ur cap and say u sold an organ to the rockfellers