Flentrop
by Gina Harrison
Title
Flentrop
Artist
Gina Harrison
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Art Print
Description
FLENTROP. 2017. Duke University Chapel's Flentrop organ (the Benjamin N. Duke Memorial Organ) was completed in 1976. From the Chapel website, "The Flentrop is a tracker-action instrument that contains 5,033 speaking pipes, controlled by four manual keyboards and pedal. The main case houses four divisions of pipes; it rises approximately 40 feet above the gallery floor and is about 4 1/2 feet deep. A smaller Rugwerk division, located on the gallery rail, houses one division of pipes; it is 10 feet high and 4 feet deep. The cases are made of solid African mahogany, painted and decorated in gold leaf and various hues. The gallery, designed and built in Durham by William T. Muirhead, is constructed of solid oak in the classical style."
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December 23rd, 2017
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