Stalhille - Sint-Jan de Doper - Jacob van Eynde

SPECS: Jacob_van_Eynde-Sint_Jan_de_Doper-Stalhille.be.1716

Was originally build for the church of the Jacobin nuns in Brugge. In 1784
it was bought by the church of Stalhille. During the history it was maintained
by Andries-Jacob Berger, Pieter de Brabandere and Lambertus Van Peteghem.
Simon-Gerrit Hooghuys removed two stops to adopt the instrument to the
19th century taste. Since than it has been maintained by Pieter Loncke
and his grandson Frans. In 1973 Pieter Lonck replaced the keyboard with
the one from the organ of O.-L.-Vrouw Lombeek (1857), and finally it was
completely revised in 1993 by the same people. One of the Hooghuys stops
turned out to be a transformation of an original van Eynde stop, so that
now only one stop is missing.
 
 Dispositie:
  Left:                          Right:
   Prestant 4                     Cornet V
   Bourdon 8                      Fluit 4
   Nasard 3                       Doublette 2
   Larigot 1 1/3                  (sesquialter II - still to installed)
   Fourniture III                 Cymbel II
   Clairon bas 4                  Cromhoorn sup. 8
   Trompet bas 8                  Trompet sup. 8

The organ has an attached pedalboard. The instrument contains scarves of
past stupidities. An organ player in the fifties has made two holes in the
instrument so that he could look through the organ to see the priest, instead
of using mirrors. It strange that this hooliganism remains were not removed
during the restauration.
 
Sources:
West-Vlaamse Orgelklanken
Luc Lannoo and Kamiel D'Hooghe
Marc Van de Wiele, Brugge, ISBN 90-6966-118-7