Hersteld Hervormde Kerk, Ouderkerk aan den IJssel (2017/19, 38/IIIP)

In 2016 the “Hersteld Hervormde Kerk” is building a new 900 seat church. The traditional design of this church is made by the well known Dutch architect Marco Born.

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The church committee decided to install a fine pipe organ. Since many churches are closing in the Netherlands the best quality organs are quite often sold to Van den Heuvel-Orgelbouw. Van den Heuvel (trained by Dirk A. Flentrop) bought the last few years, among other organs, 5 important Flentrop organs, and just purchased a well known Flentrop-organ from the Maranatha-church in Amsterdam. The measures of this organ were suitable for the church in Ouderkerk. The customer however requested Van den Heuvel to make important improvements, alterations and to include additional (wider scaled) stops, as well as a completely new traditional organ case design with wood carvings. The organ has to be delivered in 2017.

The Flentrop organ had a traditional winding system with 4 folding bellows. The windsupply is redesigned and includes an additional wind motor and one additional bellow. The Flentrop bellows are re-leathered, also the wind trunk system will be renewed.

Pictures of the re-leathering of the bellows

For the added Bourdon 16' wooden bass pipes were made

Wind chests

To facilitate the new stops additional wind chests were made for the Hoofdwerk and Pedaal. For the additional stops on the Rugwerk and the Hoofdwerk Cornet side blocks were made to the wind chests,

Case

The traditional organ case is made from mahogany wood. For this case we selected a 11 meter long mahogany trunk which was sawn to our specification

The new lower case with the pedal tower consoles is already assembled in our hall:

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Console

The console by Flentrop will be thoroughly cleaned and new bone key covering will be applied. Also new key cheeks will be made.

The worn out pedal board gets new key covers

Pictures of the tower heads and the base of the hoofdwerk

Assembly of the main case in the assembly hall

The case of the rugwerk is completed

Assembly of the rugwerk case in the assembly hall

Pre-voicing of al the pijpes

Racking of all pipes

Crafting and assembling the key- and stopaction

New windtrunks are made

The first carvings are finished, fitted and fixed

Now the actions and windsupply are working started is with the placement of the pipework

The façade pijpes are delivered and being placed

Technically the organ is now finished and the next phase of the voicing can be carried out.

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Balcony

The balcony rail is positioned on both sides of the rugpositief. It is placed on a 36 cm high and 12,5 meter wide moulding, milled out of solid wood:

Assembly

Monday juni 10th the first phase of the assembly in the church has started: the gallery rail is placed. On monday august 14th, after our holidays, the organ itself will be assembled.

Monday august 14th the assembly of the organ in the church of Ouderkerk aan den IJssel has started

Pictures of the first and second week

Installing the big façade pipes

Additional Info

  • Operations: Restoration
  • Location: Ouderkerk aan den IJssel
  • Stoplist:

     

    I. Rugpositief, C-g3
    Prestant 8' (2017)
    Holpijp 8'
    Octaaf 4'
    Roerfluit 4'
    Nasard 2 2/3' (from Hw)
    Gemshoorn 2'
    Quint 1 1/3'
    Sesquialter II
    Scherp IV 1'
    Dulciaan 8' (2017)
    Tremulant



    II. Hoofdwerk, C-g3
    Bourdon 16' (2017)
    Prestant 8'
    Roerfluit 8'
    Dwarsfluit 8' (2017)
    Spitsgamba 8'
    Octaaf 4'
    Spitsfluit 4'
    Quint 2 2/3' (2017)
    Octaaf 2'
    Mixtuur V 2'
    Cornet V Disc. (2017)
    Klarinet 16' (2017)
    Trompet 8'
    Tremulant (2017)
    III. Borstwerk, C-g3
    Gedekt 8'
    Fluit 4'
    Nasard 2 2/3' (2017)
    Prestant 2'
    Terts 1 3/5' (2017)
    Vox Humana 8'
    Tremulant

    III. Zwelwerk, C-g3
    prepared for




    Pedaal, C-f1
    Prestant 16' (2017)
    Subbas 16'
    Octaaf 8'
    Bourdon 8'
    Roerquint 5 1/3' (2017)
    Octaaf 4'
    Bazuin 16'
    Trompet 8' (2019)
    Schalmei 4'





     

    Couplers
    Rugpositif/Pedaal
    Hoofdwerk/Pedaal
    Rugpositief/Hoofdwerk
    Borstwerk/Hoofdwerk

    Swell for Borstwerk

    Mixture compositions:

    Mixtuur V
    C f#0 f#1 c2 f#2
    2 2 2/3 4 8 8
    1 1/3 2 2 2/3 4 5 1/3
    1 1 1/3 2 2 2/3 4
    2/3 1 1 1/3 2 2 2/3
    1/2  2/3 1 1 1/3 2
    Cornet V
    c1
    8
    4
    2 2/3
    2
    1 3/5
    Scherp IV
    C A g#0 g1 f#2
    1 1 1/3 2 2 2/3 4
     2/3 1 1 1/3 2 2 2/3
     1/2 2/3 1 1 1/3 2
     1/3 1/2 2/3 1 1 1/3
    Sesquialter II
    C c0  
    1 1/3 2 2/3  
    4/5 1 3/5