Experience Amsterdam’s Oude Kerk at home
Organists preparing the registrations on the Monarke Amsterdam will feel as if they’re playing the Vater-Müller organ at the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The draw knobs, made from stunning rosewood, plus the nameplates with their matching typography, will make it easy to imagine you are right there.
If you close your eyes, it’s easy to picture yourself seated at the Vater-Müller organ.
The Monarke Amsterdam completes the fantasy with a 12.2 audio system, two tweeter channels, and two available surround channels for an extra sense of space. If you close your eyes, it’s easy to picture yourself underneath the wooden vaults of the Oude Kerk.
Inspired by the rich design of the Vater-Müller organ
The bench and the pedalboard with their curlicues, the key cheeks with their graceful construction, the decorative frame around the music desk and the artisanal woodcarvings on the front panel: the design of the Monarke Amsterdam is clearly inspired by the rich design of the Vater-Müller organ.
Nameplate identical to the original engravings
The Vater-Müller organ at the Oude Kerk has served as inspiration right down to the tiniest of details. For example, thanks to careful study by a typographer, the letters on the nameplates above the stops are identical to the engravings of the original. The same is true for the drawknobs. Every effort has been made to recreate the signature Vater-Müller style.
The ultimate compromise between authenticity and ease of use
The Monarke Amsterdam’s stop list, with its 54 stops, is identical to that of the Vater-Müller organ in the Oude Kerk. One small but practical difference is the register. The Monarke Amsterdam has rows of eight, but eight rows of four stops. This also brings the outer stops within the organist’s reach. This offers the organ the ultimate compromise between authenticity and optimum ease of use.
The sounds of the Vater-Müller rumbling through the living room
The Monarke Amsterdam completes the player’s fantasy with a 12.2 audio system, two tweeter channels, and two available surround channels for an extra sense of space. The sublime sounds of the carefully sampled pipes of the Vater-Müller organ rumble through the living room in all their splendor.
Sampled pipe by pipe
The Monarke Amsterdam contains the individually sampled pipes of the renowned Vater-Müller organ in the Oude Kerk, making it about as close as possible to the experience of playing this majestic, three-manual, 54-stop organ in the living room.
The entire church as instrument
Thanks to the freely adjustable reverb knob, organists are free to determine the listening position from which they would like to experience their performance. This gives the powerful sense that it’s not just the organ, but the entire church that is the instrument being played.
