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According to this advert on eBay, the church is selling their III/24 Hele and replacing it with "an entirely new and larger instrument". Does anyone know what is planned?

 

Here you are!

 

A

Posted

Well it will be interesting to have an example of the work of another builder but, to me, that seems a very confused stop list unsure of its nationality. On paper, not my cup of tea.

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Here you are!

 

A

I seem to remember they installed an instrument just up the road in Beaminster as discussed on here before. I'm not sure what to think, looking at the Hele, I would probably prefer that, but I am a romantic at heart!

 

Jonathan

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I seem to remember they installed an instrument just up the road in Beaminster as discussed on here before.

Also a 3/IIP in Essex last year.

 

Paul

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It's the first time in all my travels that I have ever seen a 2' Untersatz - 32' yes, 2' er, no!!

I also wondered about this - perhaps they meant 'Hintersatz'.

 

:lol:

Posted

Skrabl have a reputation of doing quality work without being expensive. Apparently, they were at least once chosen as sub-contractor for a substantial new organ in Germany. The organ appeared on Skrabls opus list for a short time, then disappeared again, and the main contractor still has it among his own.

 

I only know their tonal work from CDs, and found it ok, but not very interesting (but that might be the recordings' fault).

 

The same could be said of their casework. A Swedish furniture chain comes to mind more often than not.

 

Best,

Friedrich

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Interesting - an eclectic scheme with a vengeance. I wonder what Pierre will make of this....

 

Skrabl is an excellent builder many others are content to

buy his pipes....

Now as far as the specifications is concerned, it is, once more, a virtually

perfect copy/paste of a 1970 Danion-Gonzalez (F) or Georges Delmotte (BE)

organ.

And as both exist by the tons in France and Belgium, we do have excuses

to prefer something else for new organs...Or used ones!

 

Pierre

Posted

Having visited this church on holiday a few years ago, I have to say the Hele was really struggling. The organist was trying his best to get good sounds out of it but age was taking its toll.

Posted
I only know their tonal work from CDs, and found it ok, but not very interesting (but that might be the recordings' fault).

 

The same could be said of their casework. A Swedish furniture chain comes to mind more often than not.

 

Best,

Friedrich

 

Let hope that it lasts as well, and is as well thought out as the majority of the items available from the certain Swedish furniture supplier you mention. After all, it could be worse - MFI (now defunct) comes to mind here!

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There is an advert for "Organs Skrabl" in the latest Choir and Organ. They are showing 3 organs completed in the UK (Beaminster 25 stops IIIM; Richard Tanner, Blackburn 5 stops IIM; Andrew Malcolm, Saffron Walden 3 stops IIM). And they are advertising 3 more UK contracts for Lyme Regis 41 stops IIIM; Sacred Heart and St Francis, Frinton on Sea 8 stops IIM; and St Patrick's Huddersfield 20 stops IIM. Their UK representative has been a busy person.

 

PJW

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The exchange rates between the £GB and the east European countries have long been very much in our favour. I have no idea how things are moving in the current climate, but I imagine that Organs Skrabl have been an eminently affordable proposition.

Posted
How does one pronounce "Skrabl"? Would it be becoming to scrabble around a Skrabl?

It's Sh-krahbl, with ah as in "far", as far as I know.

 

Best,

Friedrich

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I'm intrigued to see from their website that their magnum opus is a 4 manual 70 stop instrument from 2006 in the cathedral in Abuja, Nigeria. But I've never heard of such a beast and Google wasn't any help either. Can anyone shed any more light, or is the cathedral being built in, er, African time?

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