Which is the most beautiful old Bourdon you have played?

[Nigel Allcoat]

Souvigny.

[Ian Ball]

St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh: Great Stopped Diapason.

[mgp]

Marmoutier - especially in the jeu du fonds

[Guest]

St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh: Great Stopped Diapason.

 

I agree entirely.

[heva]

Delhaye organ Teteringen

[David Drinkell]

There have been a few, but last week when I was on holiday in the UK, I encountered a beautiful Stop'd Diapason on the new Peter Bumstead organ (based on an instrument of about 1840 from a Methodist church in Draycott, Somerset) at Brundish Church, Suffolk. Apart from the aforesaid SD, it's a very nice little job altogether, with a simple but effective case based on the Sutton one at Great Bardfield. It's just appeared on NPOR:

 

http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi...ec_index=K00988

[John Sayer]

Aa-Kerk, Groningen - any of the stopped flutes.

 

JS

[msw]

The Great Bourdon 16' at Selby - put it up an octave and it "outflutes" any of the others!

[AJJ]

The Choir Lieblich Gedeckt at Lincoln Cathedral.

 

A

[Guest Salamine]

The Great Bourdon 16' at Selby - put it up an octave and it "outflutes" any of the others!

Indeed - I almost invariably find that H and H Great Organ Bourdons are much better played out of normal range, much more useful (especially on their smaller 2 - 3 manual instruments) - often less hooty than their Great organ flutes.

[MusingMuso]

Aa-Kerk, Groningen - any of the stopped flutes.

 

JS

 

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The Aaaaaaaaah-kerk.......what a gorgeous instrument that is.

 

Does anyone know the what, when and how's of the restoration?

 

MM

[ross cobb]

The Choir Claribel flute at King's Cambridge. Brings a lump to the throat.

[handsoff]

The Claribel flute on the south Choir Organ at St Paul's cathedral is also a wondrous stop. Not that I have played it

[James Goldrick]

If we're including open flutes - The Gt. Hohl Flute on the Norman & Beard at Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle.

 

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The Gedackt 8 on the positiv of Buckfast Abbey has a good edge to it I think. St. Margaret Pattens in London has some gorgeous flutes too, but I couldn't give a clear winner overall.

[David Coram]

There is a little village just north of Salisbury called West Lavington, wherein resides a 2m Bishop and Starr of c. 1860, which has a Great Clarabella of simply remarkable quality. Rather like a pear drop, it's uniformly smooth and sweet but there is just a mere hint of the best sort of acidity. Incidentally, the same instrument also has the most charming 4' Flute I have ever encountered.