Objekt 4
Table positive 'Ab Yberg', end of 16th c.
Description
According to an unverifiable source, the instrument is supposed to have come from the family chapel of St. Sebastian "Im Grund" of the Ab Yberg family in Schwyz. This chapel was built between 1566 and 1578.
Object description
Maker unknown
South Germany (?) end of 16th c., modified in 18th c
LAUDATE DOM [INUM] IN CHORDIS ET ORGANA [sic] PS [ALMUS] CL. (inscription, below keyboard)
Grisaille painting decoration (case); gilded carving (facade); iron (side handles)
Three-part facade
two wedge bellows, horizontally behind the instrument
playable; restoration 1982 (Wolfgang Rehn, Orgelbau Th. Kuhn AG, Männedorf)
Range F - a2 (38 keys; without F#, G#, g#2)
four stops (4' gedackt; Principal 2', prospect; Quinte 1 1/3'; Zimbel single 1/2', from f rep. in 1', from a1 in 2')
Tuning pitch a1 = 445 Hz; tuning medium-tone
H. 825 mm; B. 685 mm; D. 340 mm (case); Stitch size 505 mm; Octave size 167 mm
Purchase (from the Schumacher Collection, Lucerne) inv. no. 1927.258.