Žilina-Vlčince
 

Our Lady of Sorrows´ Church

27th February 2007

Approximately one year ago there was an article in the newspaper that a new organ would be built at St Martin’s Dome in Bratislava. The costs would be approximately 1 000 000 EUR. I have learnt from my old friends what should be done with the old organ. It is supposed to be taken apart and built again in a new church. We were discussing the plans about the organ. The conclusion was as follows: when i is once taken apart it will never be compounded again. It will be lost. We were discussing like this during our meeting at Christmas.
Two months had passed and in the regional newspaper Žilinský večerník an article appeared that the organ would be moved with a high probability to Žilina – Vlčince. You can read the whole article here. The article is scanned and if you want a higher quality read it here. Look here the way it looks at St Martin ´s Dome and the way it will look in the church at Vlčince, if you want a higher quality look here.

In the right upper corner the local dean Stanislav Ďungel is depicted.

The source: Žilinský večerník 9 Tuesday 27th February 2007

I have had an opportunity to play several times at Vlčince. There is also a two-manual synthetiser in the church. It is suitable for home practicing very much. It is not suitable for usage in a church. I am surprised that the congregation can bear the two-manual synthetiser instead of an organ. Especially in the case when the church is big and mighty, and in the church an instrument, that is suitable into a small chapel, is played.
My great wish is that such a jewel from St Martin ´s Dome would get into the church in Žilina-Vlčince. It is an instrument suitable for concerts. The congregation is worth hearing the sound of an organ. No a two-manual synthetiser will substitute for the sound of an organ even if the sound is not generated but it is stored in the organ in the form of a digital recording and it is canned. The problem is to secure a canning box of a high quality which is able to reproduce such a width of frequencies as it does only a real organ.

The organ at St Martin’s Dome is mechanical; moreover it contains something as a brake booster in a car. The equipment is called Barker ´s pneumatic lever. The organ player applies only small force to the key and the whole action is done with the help of compressed air.

The congregation should only pray to gain such an instrument.

27th February 2007