Identity
To define the identity of the organ of Sør-Vågsøy church is not so easy. Looking at the stops, most if it is baroque, but the Hobo (and perhaps the Gamba) does not fit to this image. The organ lacks bellows: the blower is connected directly to the windchest, a modern construction, making the organwind extremely stable, but depriving the sound of flexibility. The placing of the Swell behind the case with the Great and Pedal causes the Swell to sound rather from a distance, it reminds me a bit of a "Fernwerk" as the Germans call it; not very baroque. Balancing the Great and Swell in trio-combinations is therefore difficult, but some corrections on the intonation reduced that problem.
Still, the organ is OK, but somewhat faceless, this applies also to the façade, which has no stylistic contact with the church and looks a bit unfinished without woodcarvings.

Stoplist

Hovedverk (Great)	Svellverk (Swell)	Pedal
Principal 8'	Gedakt 8'	Subbas 16'
Kobbelfløyte 8'	Gamba 8'	Oktav 8'
Oktav 4'	Principal 4'	Gedakt 8'
Rørfløyte 4'	Waldfløyte 2'	Italian principal 4'
Oktav 2'	Quint 1½'	Fagott 16'
Sesquialtera 2 ranks	Scharf 3 ranks	Pedal + Hovedverk
Mixtur 4 ranks	Obo 8'	Pedal + Svellverk
Trompet 8'	Tremulant
Hovedverk + Svellverk

 

Manufactered in 1989 by Marcussen, Denmark

You can hear the organ in the soundclips of my composition "Passio"

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