2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1995. -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - 1796? Builder of L?ppfertswell, St. Gall, Switzerland. No pedals. Purchased 1990. Assembled and regulated here by English builder, Edward Bennett. -Database Manager
2020-11-04 - Engraved on center pipe: *1786 / isl.* Handwritten in ink on paper at back of pallet box: *Durch Joseph Loosser Orgeln Macher Von Lüppertsweil in der gemeind Cappel in Toggenburg / 1786* Case exterior painted in traditional style of the Toggenburger valley. Gilded carvings in front of pipes and at top of marbled cornices. NMM catalog #4897. Purchase funds gift of Margaret Ann and Hubert H. Everist, Sioux City, Iowa, 1990. -Margaret Downie Banks
2020-11-05 - Updated through online information from Margaret Downie Banks, Associate Museum Dir.: Note that organ does NOT belong to the Univ. of SD, but rather to National Music Museum, Inc., located on USD's campus. -Jim Stettner
Source: From the Naional Music Museum website and photos
Vermillion, South Dakota
University of South Dakota - National Music Museum
Josef Loosser (Swiss), 1786
MANUAL
[8'] Copel. stopped wood
[4'] Principal. metal, AA# to e2 in the facade; wooden pipes in the bass
[4'] Flöten. open wood; CC to b stopped
[2'] Ocdav. metal, with wooden pipes in the bass
[1 2/3'] Quint. metal, with wooden pipes in the bass
[1'] Subterocdav. metal, with wooden pipes in the bass
ACTION: Mech. Key & Stop VOICES: 6 STOPS: 6 RANKS: 6 PIPES: 294
NOTES
Single manual, tracker action. Compass: C to c3 (49 notes)
Pine case, painted in traditional style of the Toggenburger valley.
Pitch: slightly less than a semitone below A 440.
PROVENANCE
Purchased in 1990 from Martin Goetze and Dominic Gwynn, Nottinghamshire,
England.
The organ was restored in England in 1988. At that time it belonged to
Julian Berkeley, Ramsdell, England. It was given to him by Francis Lloyd,
who inherited the organ from his mother, Lady Berkeley, who kept the organ
in her house in Assisi in Italy in a music room which had formerly been the
church of San Lorenzo. Lady Berkeley ("Molly") was Mary Emlyn Lloyd, daughter
of John Lowell, Boston, Massachusetts. She was the second wife of Randall
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