Uploaded January 2011 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Voicing Cornell University's new baroque organ—giving each pipe the correct volume and timbre and ensuring that it responds correctly to the pressure and speed of the performer's touch—took over half a year of work by Munetaka Yokota, organ designer, builder, and pipe voicer.
The majestic baroque organ in Cornell's Anabel Taylor Chapel required over seven years of research in an international, collaborative effort by Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences and the Gothenburg Organ Art Center (GOArt) at the University of GÖTEBORG, Sweden, under the direction of designer Munetaka Yokota.
The instrument re-creates the tonal design of the celebrated Charlottenburg organ in Berlin, handmade in 1706 by master organ builder Arp Schnitger and tragically destroyed during WWII. The interdisciplinary effort to understand the many aspects of this historic organ's construction included experts in fluid dynamics, electro-acoustics, and metallurgy, as well as craftsmen and musicians. Each of the nearly 2,000 pipes was handcrafted in Sweden under the direction of project designer Yokota.
For more information: baroqueorgan.cornell.edu
Voicing Cornell University's new baroque organ—giving each pipe the correct volume and timbre and ensuring that it responds correctly to the pressure and speed of the performer's touch—took over half a year of work by Munetaka Yokota, organ designer, builder, and pipe voicer.
The majestic baroque organ in Cornell's Anabel Taylor Chapel required over seven years of research in an international, collaborative effort by Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences and the Gothenburg Organ Art Center (GOArt) at the University of GÖTEBORG, Sweden, under the direction of designer Munetaka Yokota.
The instrument re-creates the tonal design of the celebrated Charlottenburg organ in Berlin, handmade in 1706 by master organ builder Arp Schnitger and tragically destroyed during WWII. The interdisciplinary effort to understand the many aspects of this historic organ's construction included experts in fluid dynamics, electro-acoustics, and metallurgy, as well as craftsmen and musicians. Each of the nearly 2,000 pipes was handcrafted in Sweden under the direction of project designer Yokota.
For more information: baroqueorgan.cornell.edu
