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Objekt 5

Organ positive in table form, 17th c

Object description

Maker unknown

Switzerland (?), early 17th c.

D.B./ BA,/1505. (engraving, brass bar, above the keyboard, no connection to the date of the instrument's origin)

Oak; walnut (case); walnut, burl maple and oak veneer (ornamental patterns on the table top); brass strips, openwork, engraved

two wedge bellows, horizontally under the movement, as it were as a floor, to be operated by hand or by (reconstructed) leather slides

Wind guide to the pipes through the front table leg on the left side

Pipes lying in the case behind the keyboard

playable; restoration 1989 - 1991 (Wolfgang Rehn, Orgelbau Th. Kuhn AG, Männedorf)

Range C - c3 (48 keys; without C#)

three stops (8' Regal, wooden pipes, reconstruction; 4' gedackt, wood; Octave 2', wood)

Tuning a1 = 466 Hz; tuning "Silbermann" (strongly moderated middle tone)

H. 984 mm; B. 1585 mm; D. 1147 mm (case); Stroke measure 502 mm; Octave measure 166 mm

Gift of E. E. Bann to the municipality of St. Leonhard Inv.-Nr. 1870.886.

The instrument originates from the reformed parish of St. Leonhard and was used there in the winter chapel for church services until about 1858. in 1862 the organ was donated to the then 'Medieval Collection'.

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