BASILICA OF ST. MAGNUS
A new project for the beautiful Basilica di San Magno in the historic centre of Legnano.
The current organ was built in 1920 by Giorgio Maroni of Varese in an elegant coeval case, unfortunately mute for several decades.
Technically, the instrument is unfortunately not salvageable except for the phonic part, as the bellhousing and transmissions, by Giorgio Maroni, are partly mechanical and partly pneumatic, made on the cheap and lacking any preliminary design to guarantee their maintenance and operation.
Our intervention, in cooperation with the preservation bodies, is aimed at redesigning and reconstructing the organ machine while preserving the historically most important part of the existing pipework, suitably restored and integrated.
The phonic core has three historical layers within it: Gian Giacomo Antegnati 1542, Giovanni and Girolamo Carrera 1814, Giorgio Maroni 1920.
The space in the case, designed by architect Luigi Perrone, is certainly undersized in relation to the quantity of registers inserted by Maroni; therefore, technical-artistic choices were made in order to obtain a complete instrument that enhances the oldest phonic part and at the same time is functional and accessible.
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