Box Positive
 

1. Description of the organ before restoration

1.1. Technical details and specification: mechanical action, Copula major, Copula minor, Principal 2´,Quinta 1 1/3´, Sedecima

1.2.   Origin: all preserved parts original.

1.3.   Condition: attacked by woodworm, missing some of the pipework

1.4.   Wind pressure: around 50 mm WS.

1.5.   Pitch: Chorton  465

1.6.   Temperament:  mean tone

1.7.   Voicing, sound characteristics: with open foot voicing, copulas voiced classically

 

2.      New discoveries, their analysis and evaluation: Chorton pitch based on action preserved in the botto octave.

2.1 Description of newly created parts and the reason for their reconstruction:

pipes in the Copula Major treble (20 pipes), Copula Minor (28 pipes), complete tin stops, the original pipes were not conserved

     2.2. Dr. Čížek approved the reconstruction.

     2.3. Examples for copies, additions and reconstruction are partly taken from the instrument itself, for the tin pipes comparable pipes from the same period were used.