Lapua Cathedral and The Largest organ in Finland

[masterizationstation]

Nice presentation! I'm American and I took a trip to Italy and I got to play on a couple of organs there, but on some of them they weren't even your standard stops like Principal Gemshorn, Salicianal, and octave ( just throwing around some stop names) I mean I have nothing wrong with organ stops being in different languages (in fact i actually prefer German or French stop names) but these stops were just like random numbers and stuff, I don't think they even had what foot the pipes were either.

[nedopisa]

Very impressive! And why the stops names are in italian? Some italian organbuilder has restored and electrified it maybe later?

[steff2929]

@nedopisa The stop names are original. The organ was designed by the Finnish organ designer Aarne Wegelius. His first organs where strongly influenced by the Alsatian reform movement. In the mid 30's he created his own most personal synthesis between North German Baroque, South German (Andreas Silbermann), Cavaillé-Coll, and a touch of Mahrenholz. From 1929 and onwards he always used, often self-invented, Italian stop names.

[Principal16]

@steff2929 And also because all music terms are in italian. The organbuilders thought that all music terms are in italian for exmpl. allegro,presto etc. so they wanted also stops to be in italian ;)