The project
The owner, an amateur organist with a dedicated music room rather than a church-scale space, wanted an instrument that could play solo Baroque literature convincingly at a genuinely domestic scale and volume. Every stop was narrow- and moderate-scaled specifically for a small, close-set room — a full-church-scale Principal chorus would have simply been too loud and too harmonically aggressive at that distance. The case was built to the room's exact ceiling height and finished to match the room's existing woodwork, doubling as a piece of furniture as much as an instrument.
The 8-stop specification includes a single celesting rank (Unda Maris) for solo colour — a deliberate choice on a small instrument where a full String division would have crowded out the room’s natural acoustics.
