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Balzan Parish Organ

Sample-set owners: Mark Bugeja & Panos K. Ghekas © 2013
Samples processing, sf2, disposition & odf: Panos K. Ghekas (Greece) and Mark Bugeja (Malta) © 2013
Photos: Sarah Bugeja Kissaun (Malta) © 2013
Graphics: Mark Bugeja (Malta) © 2013
Beta Testers: Graham Goode (S. Africa) and Erik De Schrijver (Belgium)
Balzan Parish Organ History: Click Here
Balzan Parish (Church of the Annunciation) History: Click Here
Thanks to: The Parish Priest Rev. Fr. Kalcidon Vassallo for allowing me access to the organ and accomplishing the task of recording the pipe sounds and to Eng. Robert Buhagiar and Dr. Hugo Agius Muscat and our Beta testers for advice, information, suggestions and guidance given to make this sample-set better.
Music Samples: click here

Link to the Order Form to obtain any of the free versions of this organ:


Controls Panel for Balzan VPO
- Samples at 24bits 48000Hz
- 12 samples per octave full compass
- Single loops
- Tracker, drawstop, blower effects
- Dual Screens
- Individual control of sound elements in real-time on screen
- Dec. 2013 (v1.1)
* Fixed "pistol firing" sound when opening disposition and when coming out of construction mode;
* Disposition updated for use with latest jOrgan version 3.20 and up, no backward compatability!
* Added two more disposition models by Jean-Pool Cemieux, both 2m/p extensions and dry;
* Added Midi file performance on Mendelssohn by Jean-Pool;
* Some other minor fixes and improvements.
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For samples of music using this VPO, please click here. - Sincere thanks to
- Jean-Pool for his new extended models and his Mendelssohn performance
- John Aquilina (Malta) for his 5 performances.

Pending the availability of this close coupling between jOrgan and the GO-engine, the next best but already feasible alternative is to use jOrgan as the GUI to drive GrandOrgue. The benefits of this approach are the use of the elegant GUI construction inherent to jOrgan and the benefit of .wav format recorded sample sets.

IR Files
Kontakt 5 version

This is one of 3 interactive consoles as seen on the jOrgan
front-end (Maltese Modern Organ 1 v1) based on the Balzan sampleset that has been completely re-worked for Kontakt 5 player.
Here, you will find 3 organs represented by the file names:
- Platania_1827_Organ_ (434Hz_Va) -> Original, Valotti temp.
- Chamber_Organ_ (a-440Hz_Equal) -> Original, Equal temp.
- Extended_2m) p_Organ_ (440Hz_Eq) -> Extended, MMO
See also here.
You can hear Panos Ghekas play on the MMO-1 v1 here and here
ARIA version


Balzan Organ (DRY-MOIST) v1.0 for GrandOrgue v3.1.1691
This is the dry-moist version best for playing in a church or hall
- Pure wav files at 24 bit 48000Hz
- Multi-sampled, 12 samples per octave, full compass
- Full tracker, drawstop, blower effects
- Pure wav files at 24 bits 48000Hz
- Multi-sampled, 12 samples per octave, full compass
- Multi-loops
- Multi-releases
- Full tracker, drawstop, blower, original church bells
Hauptwerk versions

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Extended Versions
Extended versions for GO and HW4 are available upon a donation made towards the project.


An extension to the pedals has been created for the GO version. The pedals now spans from C1 to F3. The pedal folder and new odf are available from us upon request. Obviously you need to have the extended wet version for GO. You can email us here for the link. Hopefully we will have a similar update for the extended version for HW4 too, soon.
Uploading this set to any other site is not allowed.
Link to this site for download.
Full licensing details are included in the download package.