Vélez Rubio (Almería) (Spain)
Iglesia de la Encarnación
The organ in the church of La Encarnación in Vélez Rubio (Almería) was built in 1771 by the French organ builder Guillermo DEnoyer who was active in Andalucía during the second half of the 18th century, especially in the provinces of Cádiz, Málaga, Granada and Almería. He may have originally come from Alsace, in which case he may have moved in the same circles as the Silbermann family. In Spain, there are a number of indications which point to his being connected in some way with Leonardo Fernández Dávila. DEnoyers extant instruments display an original blending of French and Spanish features, while also displaying extraordinarily high quality both in how they are constructed and the way they sound.
The instrument in Vélez Rubio is, without a doubt, the most interesting and best preserved historical organ in the province of Almería. And, of all DEnoyers surviving instruments, this one is also the largest.
This is a two manual instrument, with a 45 note compass (C1-c5 plus a short octave), the lower (choir) manual being placed in the lower case. Besides this, there is a French style box-pedalboard with a one octave compass.
This organ had already been worked on in 1983; the main purpose behind the the work seems to have been to make enough repairs to put it back into playing condition rather than trying to restore the instrument in depth. We decided to include a few set of pipes that were added to the organ at that time since they originally came from an old Castillian-type instrument which had been ransacked and looted. Our work was done in 2006-2007 and concentrated on trying to restore the windchests, the bellows, the action and the pipework to their original condition.
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