Better Pipe Organ Database

J. G. Pfeffer (1876)

St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church: Sanctuary; rear gallery
207 Church St.
Spillville, IA

OHS convention: 1986

Images

2015-06-16 - Pump handle (Photograph by Graeme Shields, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

ca. 2018 - Organ case (Photograph by Bruce Wicks on Flicker/Jim Stettner)

2015-06-16 - Organ in rear gallery (Photograph by Graeme Shields, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2015-06-16 - Church exterior and grounds (Photograph by Graeme Shields, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

ca. 1890's - Church interior with organ in rear gallery (Photograph from an archival source: Image courtesy of Dobson Organbuilders, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
1 manuals
11 stops
11 registers
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 54 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: No Enclosed Divisions

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1993 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - To be restored by Dobson 1995-96. -Database Manager

2018-05-07 - OHS Citation number 196. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Information from Dobson Pipe Organbuilders Source: Dobson Orgnbuilders Date not recorded

Spillville, Iowa
St Wenceslaus Catholic Church

J.G. PFEFFER, 1876 - Original Specifications
Dobson Pipe Organbuilders, Ltd., 1996 - Restoration
 
MANUAL 
16' Bourdon            54   1-54 stopped wood 
8'  Principal          54   1-6 open wood, 7-22 zinc (façade), rest common metal 
8'  Floete             48   1-6 grooved to Principal, 7-54 open wood
8'  Gamba              54   1-12 stopped wood, 13-54 open, common metal 
4'  Octave             54   1-5 zinc, 6-54 common metal 
4'  Floete             54   1-12 stopped wood, 13-54 open wood 
3'  Quinte             54   1-54 common metal 
2'  Octave             54   1-54 common metal 
III Mixtur            150   actually II-III, common metal 
                            1-12:                      1-1/3' + 1' 
                            13-24:                2' + 1-1/3' + 1' 
                            25-54:  4' + 2-2/3' + 2'   

PEDAL
16' Sub Bass           25   1-25 stopped wood 
8'  Violoncello        25   1-25 open wood, inverted mouth  

COUPLERS
Pedal Coppel 

MISC. CONTROLS
Calacant [sic; bellows signal]

NOTES
This is the famous Pfeffer Organ of St. Wenceslaus Church, the instrument
played in the summer of 1893 by Antonin Dvorak.


[Received from Richard C Greene 2013-10-29.]