Walter Chinaglia - who combines a degree in physics with a passion for early music - has been conducting specific research on historical organs for more than twenty years. Based on medieval iconography, historical sources, treatises and following traditional building methods, he has reinterpreted the historical styles and thus created a range of finest quality instruments: the ORGANA collection.
Sound example
NEWS
RECENT PUBLICATION
▪ GSJ LXXVIII: 'The Recreation of the Harding Bible Organ’
▪ GSJ LXXVIII: 'The Recreation of the Harding Bible Organ’
RECENT PUBLICATION
▪ Early Music: 'An ingenious musical machine from the imagination of Leonardo da Vinci’ Abstract
▪ Early Music: 'An ingenious musical machine from the imagination of Leonardo da Vinci’ Abstract
Master of Arts and Crafts 2024 award
RECENT PUBLICATION
▪ OYB 50: Recreating a large Italian Renaissance–style ‘organo di legno’
▪ OYB 50: Recreating a large Italian Renaissance–style ‘organo di legno’
Virtual Exhibition "Materiality of Musical Instruments" Deutsches Museum Munich
Duoi Organi per Monteverdi
Research project aiming to recreate the sound of open, wooden pipes.
Research project aiming to recreate the sound of open, wooden pipes.
Instruments
The ORGANA collection
The ORGANA collection, which consists of portatives, positives and table organs, has been showcased in prestigious places all over Europe, and offers an overview on organ evolution from medieval to pre-baroque.
Other Instruments
Besides portative organs Walter Chinaglia designs and builds various kinds of pipe organs, harpsichords and claviorgans.
Visit the Atelier
Restoration
Our Atelier also offers restoration, tuning, maintaining, modifying and reconditioning services for your instruments.
Rental
Instruments can be rented for courses, workshops and concerts.
Music room
We offer space for rehearsals, practice, small performances / recitals, workshops.
Workshops
We organise courses on Keyboard performance, Organ building, Historical temperaments and tuning techniques
© ORGANA di Walter Chinaglia
Via Montebello 10, 22072 Cermenate (CO) Italy, tel/fax +39 031 772776, mob. + 39 340 966 78 03
walter.chinaglia@gmail.com