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J.P. Teeuw - Improvisatie over God is getrouw
The organ in the Petruschurch of Leens has been built by the
organbuilder Albertus Anthoni Hinsz in 1733/1734 on request of Anna
Habina Lewe, douairière Van Starkenborg and patron of the vicary of
the Church of Leens. The lady "Vrouwe van Verhildersum" was a widow of
"Edzard Jacob Tjarda van Starkenborg". As the sole patron she managed
all the properties of the church and she was able to decide by herself
to order an organ by Hinsz.
This was the second large organ that Hinsz built. The first 2 keyboard
instrument had been made by Hinsz for Zandeweer in 1730/1731. The very
first organ built by Hinsz in his successful organ building career was
the Rückpositiv of the Schnitger-organ in the large Martinikerk in
Gronigen (1729/1730). Hinsz based the construction of the Rückpositiv
for Leens on the Rückpositiv of the organ made by Frans Caspar
Schnitger in Zwolle. The sculptures and carvings on the organ are
attributed to Theodorus van der Haven (wingdecorations?) and Caspar
Struiwig the other parts. He often used this design afterwards as a
concept for other organ projects.
Technical information
The organ is equal tuned on a' = 461 Hz. measured 3-10-2007 on the
Prestant 4' at 14° Celsius or 57.2° Fahrenheit. The action is
completely mechanical. The windpressure is 71 mm or 2.8 inch wc
Specification of the Hinsz
organ from the Petruskerk in Leens
Check the MD5 checksums with the WinMD5 program, free to download
from
http://www.winmd5.com
or http://www.fastsum.com If a checksum is incorrect, throw the wrong download file away
from the PC and download that file again.
Start Hauptwerk (File/Install organ....), select in the folder where
you just downloaded the files the file with extension
.CompPkg_Hauptwerk_rar in Hauptwerk's component installer.
Hauptwerk automatically finds the other files.
If you get error messages, scroll to the end of the log file (this
opens automatically if something goes wrong when unpacking) to see
what goes wrong.
Usually a file is missing, or there is a file in the wrong folder or
a file is damaged.
Before loading the organ, first have a look at the
system information
regarding the expected memory usage etc.
Note: Please contact us via the
Contact form if you encounter any
issues; we will try to assist you.
System requirements
of the Hinsz organ from the Petruskerk in Leens
a modern fast computer with e.g. Windows 10 64 bit
a good internal or external sound card
2 manuals/keyboards with (at least 25 keys) pedal òr a complete
electronic organ with MIDI out
good quality speakers /headphone
The computer
To play the full version of this sampleset without restrictions you
need a high-speed modern computer with e.g. Windows 10 64 bit
installed.
Obviously Hauptwerk must also be installed with the latest version 5
(or higher) Advanced.
The best results are possible with computers of Apple-MacIntosh. We do
not have experience with the Mac.
It is very specify exactly what you need. More information on
hauptwerk.com
This virtual Hinsz organ can be downloaded.
The next table of memory usage shows the memory
requirements.
On other computers these values can differ!
Please note: Your Operating System also uses (much) memory.
The sound card
A good internal or external sound card. For more information go to:
hauptwerk.com .
Manuals/keyboards/pedal òr complete organ with MIDI out
2 manuals or keyboards and a (at least 25 keys) pedal òr a complete
electronic organ with MIDI out.
Beautiful consoles specifically designed for Hauptwerk are
commercially available.
In the Netherlands these are available through, for example,
Those who are technically inclined can provide their keyboard with
MIDI capability using hardware from, for example,
WIRA,
MIDI-Hardware.com
or MGB . We ourselves have
done this using a Heyligers organ dating from around 1975 (using WIRA
hardware). The conversion was about 300 Euro and everything has worked
perfectly for years.
Speakers/headphone
The superb sound quality of Hauptwerk is best experienced through
high-quality headphones, such as AKG or Sennheiser.
We prefer connecting the sound card to a (possibly multi-channel)
sound system. The above mentioned companies can also advise you on any
purchases in this area.
What you definitely should not do is listen to Hauptwerk
through the built-in speakers of the monitor or a set of €10 computer
speakers!
Table of memory usage
of
the Hinsz organ from the Petruskerk in Leens
Hauptwerk 5 (space needed on the hard disc ca. 5,5 GB)
Load manner
Memory Requirements Operating System not included
Full organ loaded 14 bit 48 kHz, all stops compressed, single
loop, single release, noises 14 bit compressed.
1721 MB
Full organ loaded 16 bit 48 kHz, all stops compressed, single
loop, single release, noises 16 bit compressed.
1812 MB
Full organ loaded 24 bit 48 kHz, all stops compressed,
multiloops, multirelease, noises 16 bit compressed.
5200 MB
Full organ loaded 24 bit 48 kHz, uncompressed, multiloops,
multirelease, noises 16 bit compressed.
6610 MB
Screen layout of the Hinsz
organ from the Petruskerk in Leens
Organfront
Church
Console
Touch-screen leftside
Touch-screen rightside
Stoppanel
Windsupply
You listen to the Hinsz organ from the Petruskerk in Leens
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