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SANTO DOMINGO YANHUITLÁN
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Photo: Ed Pepe Drawing: José Luis Acevedo |
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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Date of construction of the church: 1548
Date of construction of the organ: ca. 1700
Builder: unknown
Interventions: 1886, Jesús Cano; 1996-8 reconstructed by Pascal Quoirin; project financed by Fomento Cultural Banamex and coordinated by Gustavo Delgado and Ofelia Gómez, directors of the Academia Mexicana de Música Antigua para Órgano (AMMAO). The organ has been severly altered over the course of time, many of the original pipes are missing and a number of nineteenth century pipes were replaced during the reconstruction.
Inscriptions: on the lowest key “Jesús Cano año de 1886”
Type: eight foot monumental organ |
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| DISPOSITION OF THE ORGAN |
Left hand (23 notes)
1. Flautado mayor (8´)
2. Flautado bardón (wood)
3. Octava
4. Tapadillo
5. Docena
6. Quinsena
7. Veintidocena° Diesynovena*+
8. Cimbala° 20docena*+
9. 20 novena° 20sesena (sesenta) *+
10. Lleno° 20novena*+
11. Trompeta real (8´) (new) |
Right hand (24 notes)
0. Clarín claro (new)
1. Flautado mayor (8´)
2. Flautado bardón (metal)
3. Octava
4. Tapadillo
5. Docena
6. Quinsena
7. Veintedocena° Diesynovena+
8. Cimbala° 20docena+
9. 20novena° 20setena (sesenta)+
10. Lleno° 20novena+
11. Trompeta real (8´) (new) |
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* Breaking registers °Original label + Label after the restoration
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Summary of the disposition |
| Flautados: 8´, 4´, 2 2/3´, 2´, 1´ 1/3, 1, 2/3, ½ |
8´, 4´, 2 2/3´, 2´, 1 1/3´, 1, 2/3, 1/2 |
| Flutes: 8´, 4 |
8´´, 4´ |
| Reeds: 8´ interior |
8´ interior, 8´ exterior |
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| DESCRIPTION OF THE ORGAN
Keyboard: made of wood by Jesús Cano in 1887, restored 1997.
Compass: 47 keys C1, D1, E1, F1, F#1, G--c’’’ (modified short octave), only example in Oaxaca of this layout
Key action: suspended with rollerboard (Cano, 1888)
Stop action: nineteenth century, stop knobs on either side of the manual; stops divided middle c/c#
Labels: the majority are original, though four in each hand were changed during the restoration
Windchest: rebuilt in 1997
Measurements of the windchest:
Disposition of the pipes: chromatic with the bass pipes in reverse order
Vertical channelboards: 3- left and right hands of the flautado 8´, clarín
Offset chests: 1- left hand of the bardón
Bellows: 1 wedge bellows functioning as a reservoir bellows with blower, both new, may not be pumped manually.
Location of the bellows: to the left of the organ
Wind trunks: new (22.2 x 22.2 exterior), nineteenth century ducts removed (14.9 x 15.9 exterior)
Wind pressure: 70 mm.
Pitch and temperament: a= 415, “Rameau”
Case finish: polychromed
Pipe finish: polychromed
Measurements of the case:
Location in the church: in a side balcony connected to the choir loft on the Gospel (left, north) side of the main altar
State of conservation: good, though very dirty |
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| Information compiled with the help of Barbara Owen, Edward Pepe and Susan Tattershall |
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