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Originally Posted by klaukholm  There is one very very good organ in a small hall in Houston and it is amazing sounding. The Edythe Bates Old Recital Hall and Grand Organ
It is also amazing for baroque ensembles etc.
The hard hall I was talking about has faceted concrete sidewalls. |
Beautiful french inspired organ. But "only" 75 stops with two 32' compared to over 200 with one 64' and four 32' in Northern Sweden. And by judging from the pictures a very "wet" sounding hall also probably not smaller than 8,000 m3 (very high ceiling) and RT60 probably two to three times that in Piteå. So I would say more proportionate than the Piteå project. Anyway, maybe the new Piteå monster organ will be put to good use for repertoire not yet conceived and an audience not yet eartrained to such a sound.
These days I can't think of anybody who would like to hear or even record organ repertoire from baroque to late romantic in such a relatively dry acoustic.