Jean Guillou's Organ

THE 21st CENTURY ORGAN

The Variable Structure Organ  Manufacturing Society has been created to resume thanks to Jean Guillou’s instrument the evolution of organ-building that curiously stopped in the 20th century.

“The organ, ever since it was invented in the 3 rd century B.C., has surely been the instrument that has benefited from the most numerous technical and aesthetic innovations: sizes, choice of timbres, modes of transmission, the distribution of pipes, the presence or not of  an organ-case have evolved along with idioms, musical tastes, technical requirements, the choice of materials, the lay out Now whereas the classical, then the romantic and eventually the symphonic organs are well known, oddly enough, there exist but very few instruments that could be called 20th century organs despite the technical means at our disposal nowadays.”

Jean Guillou : The Organ, retrospect, prospect

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THE VSO FAVOURS REJUVENATING ORGAN-BUILDING

It represents a revolution both technical and musical in the history of the organ. The VSO has the virtue of bringing variations and diversity in a tradition it revives thanks to its technical inventions and unique musical capabilities.

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THE VSO : A CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL SYMBOL

A festive and mobile instrument

The VSO, which can be placed anywhere, contributes to awakening, enthusiasm, quality and a festive atmosphere as it originally did in Greece.

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A FEW TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS

The stops, arranged on 4 keyboards and one pedal-board, with a console offering innumerable recordable combinations. This allows to perform any musical work, from the early times to contemporary music through J.S. Bach and the Romantics.

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