Restoration of the Organ in the Ecumenical Cathedral High School in Magdeburg
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Location: |
Ecumenical Cathedral High School, Magdeburg |
| Builder: |
Ernst Roever |
| Year: |
Um 1900 |
| System: |
Pneumatic unit chest |
Aims of the restoration:
- Reconstruction of the organ housing, in accordance with the only existing picture and other existing organ fa栤es.
- Restoration of the pipework to its original condition.
- Reconstruction of the scaling of the missing pipework, based on existing R� organs.
- Restoration of the organ's pneumatic system.
History:
- Ca 1900 Used as temporary organ for Halberstadt Cathedral, during the building of the main Cathedral organ (installed in 1901).
- 1904 Used as temporary organ for Magdeburg Cathedral, during the construction of the main organ.
- 1908 Installed in L�g High School for Girls (This picture is our only source of information about the original fa栤e).
- 1954 Alterations to the instrument during its time at L�g.

- 1994 Organ was dismantled, and stored at the Landeskirche in Hannover.
- 1999 The instrument was temporarily transferred for its restoration to the main organ loft in Magdeburg Cathedral. The existing housing was provisionally built.

- 2000 Installation of the instrument on the occasion of the Ecumenical Cathedral High School moving to new premises at No. 5, Hegelstrasse.

| Specification after restoration |
Specification before restoration |
| I. Manual (C-f" ') | I. Manual (C-f" ') |
| 1 | Bordun | 16' | 1 | Bordun | 16' |
| 2 | Prinzipal | 8' | 2 | Prinzipal | 8' |
| 3 | Gamba | 8' | 3 | Hohlfloete | 8' |
| 4 | Hohlfloete | 8' | 4 | Gedackt | 4' |
| 5 | Gedackt | 8' | 5 | Octave | 4' |
| 6 | Octave | 4' | 6 | Quinte | 2 2/3' |
| 7 | Mixtur | 2fach | 7 | Rauschquinte | 2fach |
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| II. Manual (C-f" ') | II. Manual (C-f" ') |
| 8 | Gedackt | 8' | 8 | Gedackt | 8' |
| 9 | Salicional | 8' | 9 | Spitzfloete | 4' |
| 10 | Aeoline | 8' | 10 | Prinzipal | 2' |
| 11 | Voix c諥sta | 8' | 11 | Nachthorn | 1' |
| 12 | Flauto dolce | 4' | 12 | Terzian | 2fach |
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| Pedal(C-d') | Pedal(C-d') |
| 13 | Subbass | 16' | 13 | Subbass | 16' |
| 14 | Offenbass | 8' | 14 | Offenbass | 8' |
| 15 | Gedacktbass | 8' | 15 | Bassfloe | 4' |
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| Accessories | Accessories |
| Feste Kombinationen: | | Feste Kombinationen |
| p, mf, f, ff, Tutti.- | | p, mf, f, ff, Tutti.-- |
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| Manualcoppel II/I | | Manualcoppel II/I |
| Octavcoppel | | Octavcoppel |
| Pedalcoppel I/P | | Pedalcoppel I/P |
| Pedalcoppel II/P | | Pedalcoppel II/P |
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