New Sweelinq Organ: the Domkerk in Utrecht

The Organ
The organ in its current form was built in the early nineteenth century. The stops from Peter Janszoon’s Renaissance organ were incorporated from an older instrument. The Brussels architect Tieleman Franciscus Suys designed the neoclassical case with Gothic ornaments in the seventeenth century. Even the one and only Cavaillé-Coll was impressed by the way the mechanism was constructed.

Restoration
During the 1972–1973 restoration by Van Vulpen, specialists in Bätz organs, the missing stops were reconstructed. As there was no longer space outside the case for wedge bellows, the organ received a new wind system with six regulators within the main case. The swell box was retained.

Sweelinq
The sample of this organ is now the latest addition to the Sweelinq database and can therefore also be played from your own living room. Would you like to know more about Sweelinq organs? We have various models in our range.