I have spent some time in Toulouse in my day job working for NASA. I mostly modeled my hypothetical three-manual instrument after the important Cavaillé-Coll organ at the Basilica of Saint Sernin in Toulouse, France. Piotr has announced his intention to do this – but since I had lots of free time (being in my fourth month of COVID-19 lockdown) I decided to try it myself. In fact, the acoustics for the two organs are so similar that it is natural to consider combining them into a larger instrument. Both have exquisite acoustics typical of a fairly large stone building. Unlike many of Piotr’s sample sets, these are not free – but they are very reasonably priced and excellent. Thanks to Piotr Grabowski, the Hauptwerk community has marvelous samples of not one, but two small two manual Cavaillé-Coll instruments from France from Bégard, Chapelle du Bon Sauveur and from Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Cathédrale Sainte-Marie. Of course, “CC” stands for Cavaillé-Coll and this is my attempt to recreate a medium sized three-manual instrument by the famous French romantic builder Aristide Cavaillé-Coll.
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