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Objekt 4

Positive table organ 'Ab Yberg', Southern Germany (?), late 16th century.

Object description

Maker unknown

Southern Germany (?) late 16th century, altered in the 18th century

LAUDATE DOM [INUM] IN CHORDIS ET ORGANA [sic] PS [ALMUS] CL. (inscription, below keyboard)

Decor in grisaille painting (case); gilded carving (front); iron (side handles)

Three-part case

two wedge bellows, horizontally playable behind the instrument; restoration 1982 (Wolfgang Rehn, Orgelbau Th. Kuhn AG, Männedorf)

Range F - a2 (38 keys; without F-sharp, G-sharp, G-sharp2) four stops (4' Dackt; Principal 2', Prospekt; Quinte 1 1/3'; Zimbel single 1/2', from f rep. in 1', from a1 in 2')tuning pitch a1 = 445 Hz; tuning meantoneH. 825 mm; w. 685 mm; d. 340 mm (case); pitch 505 mm; octave 167 mm

Purchase (from the Schumacher Collection, Lucerne)

Inv. no. 1927.258.

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