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ORGAN
FRANCESCO MARIA

AND GIOVANNI BATTISTA CONCONE
CORIO
PARISH CHURCH
OF SAN GENESIO MARTIRE

Phonic Disposal

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