Objekt 4
Organ positive in table form, Switzerland (?), mid 17th century.
Object description
Maker unknown
Switzerland (?), early 17th century D.B./ BA,/1505. (Engraving, brass bar, above the keyboard, no connection to the date of the instrument)
Oak; walnut (case); walnut, burl maple and oak veneer (ornamental patterns on the table top); brass strips, pierced, engraved, two wedge bellows, horizontal under the action, as a kind of floor, to be operated by hand or by (reconstructed) leather pulls
Wind guide to the pipes through the front table leg on the left
Pipes in the case behind the keyboard can be played horizontally; restoration 1989 - 1991 (Wolfgang Rehn, Orgelbau Th. Kuhn AG, Männedorf)
Range C - c3 (48 keys; without C sharp) three stops (8' Regal, wooden pipes, reconstruction; 4' Gedackt, wood; Octave 2', wood) tuning pitch a1 = 466 Hz; tuning "Silbermann" (strongly moderate meantone)
H. 984 mm; W. 1585 mm; D. 1147 mm (case); Stitch measure 502 mm; Octave measure 166 mm
Gift of E. E. Bann from the parish of St. Leonhard Inv. No. 1870.886.
The instrument originates from the reformed parish of St. Leonhard and was used there in the winter chapel for church services until around 1858. in 1862, the organ was donated to the then 'Medieval Collection'.