Author
Francesco Maria and Giovanni Battista Concone (?).
Year of Construction
1752(?)
Intervention of Restoration and Adjustment
Giovanni Bruna, 1796;
Luigi Concone, 1841;
Carlo Serratrice, 1953;
Marco Renolfi, 2006.
Inscriptions
“IN CHORDIS ET ORGANO LAUDATE DEUM” on the cymatium of the case; “1752” inside the shutter on the left side of the case
Location
opposite the façade, on a coeval wooden gallery
Case
three spans with an higher frame, curvilinear, richly curved, painted in green and pink
Schedule
formed by 27 tin’s pipes, placed on a unique order of 3 spans in spire of 9 pipes each, with flat section, openings in line, upper lip in mitre, belonging to the register Principale 8’ in the range of C1-F flat 2 with the first short octave
Keyboards
independent in window, reconstructed, with 56 keys and a range of C1-G5; diatonic keys covered in bone, chromatic keys in ebony
Pedal Keyboard
music stand, reconstructed, linked to the keyboard with 18 keys; range of C1-F2
Registers
operated through hand levers in lateral shift, placed on a unique column at the right of the keyboard, reconstructed; division in bass and treble between C flat 3 and D3; printed inscriptions on recent cards
Accessories
Tiratutti in hand lever, Drum in two pipes with grancassa, operating with a lateral big pedal
Set of Bellows
3 bellows in wedge placed on the base of the case; manual working or with electroventilation
Wind-chests
in number of 4; master wind-chest in nut (extended in 1841) with 56 channels, 17 sticks and sieve, placed under the openings of the pipes; secondary wind-chest for first Bourdon with octave (on the backwall, 1796), second Kettledrums (1796), third Drum (on the right of the master wind-chest, reconstructed)
Transmissions
mechanical, hanging with iron bolts for the keyboard
Pressure
47 mm in a column of water
Chorister
440 Hz in 15 degrees
Temperament
Vallotti modified
Bibliography
LUCIANO FORNERO, Gli organi storici delle Valli di Lanzo e della Piana di Ciriè, Lanzo Torinese, 1999, pp.26-27
MARCO RENOLFI, Il restauro dello strumento, in “L’organo Concone della chiesa parrocchiale di Corio”, Cantalupa, 2009, pp.45-90
Date of Inspection
October 28th, 2006
Report by Silvio Sorrentino from 100 Province of Turin’s Organs, Torino, 2009