manufacture

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Manufacture
Console
Key action
Stop action

Chests
Casework
Pipework
Voicing

	This is the region where Voigt organs originated. These royal music instruments are built in a beautiful landscape on the northern boundary of the cultural area Saxonia in between the famous cities Leipzig (J.S.Bach, Max Reger), Dresden and the Martin Luther Town of Wittenberg: The health resort Bad Liebenwerda. This is the place and here remains the spirit for inspiration and artistic variety.	http://www.Bad Liebenwerda.de
Today, we can look back on a long tradition of organ building since 1855 working in the organ landscape of Saxony and Central Germany. For several generations, practicing musicians and organists with many years of training and professional experience have been members of the company's management. Thus, they give their own expression to the instruments. For many years extensive restoration work on precious historical instruments has been part of our repertoire. The experience gained in this goes to supplement the manufacture of new instruments. Although the organ has reached new peaks in its development over many centuries, there remains always the challenge of improvement. In this sense, we continue to work on new developments. It is a basic prerequisite not to change the essential nature of the "classical" organ, but to continue the centuries old development.

For us a customer's organ, in all its aspects, is a work of art. It must create a sound in praise of the Lord and the edification of the human soul.

Manufacture

How we produce our organs ...

	Console Either cabinet or free-standing, are substantially cased in fir or pine and externally veneered. Other types of wood can be used. Manual keys: naturals in bone, and sharps in ebony or snake wood, also in pine or oak if desired Pedal-board: pedal keys in oak, sharps made of hard wood of a different colour if desired, double radiating.
	Stops: mechanical stops with turned knobs and register knobs individually manufactured, engraved or with small porcelain plates, flip switch made of granadilla or box-wood, and engraved. Couplers: coupler levers made of white beech-wood. The bearing of the angles and shafts made of low-wear bearing material, drilled very accurately.		Bad Liebenwerda - St. Nikolai -Church 1993 Fulda - Christus- Church 1998 (workshop photo)
		Erfurt - Ev. Church St. Andreas 1988
	Key action Apart from the quality of sound, we have concentrated on the manufacture of the key action. For us, the effective transmission of the organist's musical inspiration from keyboard to the pipe is of great significance. There are new possibilities in the manufacture of transmission elements with silent, fast, accurate, actuation...
	We work with precision action elements which provide the player with the most direct control of the sound. Moreover, these elements are highly reliable and have a guaranteed long service life, thus significantly reducing maintenance costs . Responsiveness and playing fatigue are reduced by keeping friction and inertia to a minimum. Mechanical parts, square little arms, roller docks etc. are mainly made of white beech-wood, with bearings consisting of stainless steel-axles in precision bushings. These are virtually wear-free. It also could be made in a traditional way with brass pins. The mechanical key action depends on the overall concept of the organ and the position of the console. The key action is either hanging or as an automatic tensioned action (developed by us in 1972), as provided for double-keyboards.
	The trackers are made of fine grown fir-wood. The tracker wires are made of phosphor-bronze or brass. The roller boards are cut from solid wood.. The couplers are controlled via one-arm levers directly at the pull down wire by valve magnets. The coupler magnet can be actuated directly at the chest, the key control to the valve is direct via trackers, angles, and rollers.
	Stop action The stop action is entirely mechanical. All bearings occur with wear resistant special materials. We use additional slider draw magnets with electronic control for the pistons. The On/Off-brake pulses are adjustable (time and pressure) with automatic constant performance control kept under a constant attractive force. This is also the case in multiple switching actions. The electronic two-fold controls required for this purpose are housed in separate sub-assemblies. They are easily accessible for adjustment and maintenance. Chests The slider wind-chest carcasses are made in wood with separating boards grooved on all sides. Oak-wood chests are preferred. For the wind we supply a flexed, one-fold bellow equipped with a special control valve. This is installed, at the chest or close by. Adaptable special gaskets are used as slider seals. Lead collars are used to seal the pull down wires. The valves are made by us from wood with fine annual rings. Valve leathers are from specially selected sheep leather. The top boards are made of oak-wood. Wind supply - Tremulant The wind supply is made by single-fold horizontal bellows or wedge-shaped bellows in approved traditional construction also with a feeder bellows if desired. Certainly we also use bellows directly under the wind chest. Those are installed with a special control valve at the chests or close by. Tremulant: The tremulant would be either an tremblant doux or pneumatic low-pressure tremulant, with electronic control from the console, in frequency and amplitude.

	Case and Casework These are made to meld stylistically with the Church and in accordance with the Customer's requirements. As a rule, the case and the bearing work as well as the walkway boards, rails and footrests are made of pine-wood. If required, they can be made of oak or any other suitable wood. The casework is made of seasoned wood using slots and mortise-and tenon joints. The solid frame work is also made from well seasoned wood. Staircases, providing access to the individual floors, are made of specially selected seasoned pine-wood. Steps are seamed.
	Pipe work, reed and flue pipes - own manufacturing In the same way as all other sub-assemblies, the pipe work is made in our own workshops. The scaling of the organ registers, the selection of the respective materials (types of wood and tin alloy) is based on many years of experience as organ builders and organists and in consultation with scientists. There is a very close cooperation in between the pipe builders and the voicers. The voicers work also in the pipe building. In this way, there is a continuous interchange in between voicers and pipe manufacturers.
	Voicing Voicing forms an essential part of the special artistic dimension. It is carried out by two to three voicers and organists of our company with great care, particularly when installing the organ. After the voicing from the console, all register ranks and individual ranks are checked again and again in the hall or church.
Each one of our organs is an individual work of art which have been designed and made specifically for the respective customer. The technical precision and the artistic quality of each is a reflection of our experience gained from many years in the field of pipe organ building and restoration of historically important organs.

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Mitteldeutscher Orgelbau A. Voigt GmbH
Last edit: 01 Apr 06

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