The Beckerath organ at Christ Church  in Bremen-Vahr  

Beckerath Organ from Bremen-Vahr
                                                                                               History
Vahr is a district of Bremen and belongs to the Bremen district East.    The population is 26.000.
The Christ Church Community Center is a modern building complex whose church was dedicated in 1960. 
The organ was built in 1961 by the renowned Hamburg organ workshop Rudolph von Beckerath. It has a specification strongly adapted to the specification of the organs by Arp Schnitger (e.g. in Lüdingworth), which Beckerath had studied intensively around 1947-1949. The original all-mechanical traction / registration system has four couplers: BW-HW, RP-HW, RP-Ped, HW-Ped. 

The recording for the hauptwerk sample was made by Dr. Dr. Michael Lütge in 2024. He prepared the audio files and did the main work. I did the fine-tuning of the files, created simple graphics and edited the ODF file. This hauptwerk sample is the result of the work of the two of us, of which Michael took on the greater part. This sample is our second joint work after the Dortmund pattern, and I hope that our collaboration will continue.

The following friends helped me to make and publish the sample set (in alphabetical order): Dominique Dantand, Gerard Lefranc, Nagy Istvan and Jean-Pierre Silvestre. If something's done well, it's thanks to them. Thank you for their work.

Features
Sample quality 
The sample sets are available in wave format 48kHz/24bit, stereo, multiple loops (1-8) and multiple releases (3 levels). a=440 Hz
The sample is only available in two-channel, stereo-far format.

The sample set reverb is 3.0-3.5 s reflecting the original  acoustics of the church. 

Hauptwerk v4.2 or v5-9 supported for the Organ Definition Files.

Keyboards, Pedal 
The original and virtual organ compass of the manuals are 56 keys, the compass of the pedal is 30 keys.

RAM requirements (GB)

2 channels sztereo

 

16 bit

24 bit

Bremen Vahr

6

8
The data is for information only. They depend on the operating system and other apps.
Specifications  

Pedal  30 keys

Principal 16', Subbass 16’, Oktave 8’, Bassfoete 8’

Hohlfloete 4', Nachthorn 2’, Mixtur,

Posaune 16’, Trompete 8’, Schalmei 4’

I. Manual  (Positive) 56 keys

Metallgedackt 8’, Prinzipal 4’, Blockfloete 4’, Waldfloete 2’,

Quinte 1 1/3’, Sesquialtera 2 fach, Scharf 4 fach,

Krummhorn 8’

II. Manual  (Hauptwerk) 56 keys

Quintadena 16’, Prinzipal 8’, Rohrfloete 8’, Oktave 4’, Gemshorn 4’,

Nazard 2 2/3’, Oktave 2’, Mixtur 5 fach

Trompete 8’

III. Manual  (Brustwerk) 56 keys

Holzgedackt 8’, Rohrfloete 4’, Prinzipal 2’, Oktave 1’

Terzian 2 fach, Cymbel 3 fach,

Regal 8’

Zimbelstern

Couplers

Orig: I/P, II/P, III/P, I/II, III/II

Extend: I super, II sub, II super, III sub, III super

             III/I, I/III

Tremulant

Orig: I, III

Enclosure

Orig: III     Extend: I
       

Pictures
Christ Church in Bremen-Vahr and the Beckerath Organ
Playing  Jean-Pierre Silvestre
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