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Vogelpohl & Spaeth Opus 14 (1898)

Bethesda Lutheran Church
1947 110th Avenue
Dresser, WI

Consoles

Main


Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1998 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - On Vogelpohl list at Osceola, Sand Lk., WI. Cost $1000. Compass 58/27. -Database Manager

2010-02-02 - Updated through on-line information from Allen Moe. -- Organ is extant, functional and used on a regular basis. A blower was added at some point and the pumping mechanist disconnected but left intact. -Database Manager

2012-11-02 - Updated through online information from Richard C Greene. -- Restorative repair by Allen Moe. (2010) -Database Manager

2015-02-16 - Updated through online information from John J. Miller. -Database Manager


Stoplist

Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Bethesdal Lutheran Church, near Dresser, WI
1898 Vogelpohl & Spaeth

Great
8' Open Diapason  58 pipes
8' Doppel Flute 58
8' Viol d'Gamba  58
8' Dulciana  46
4' Principal  58
Sw. to Gr. Coupler

Swell
8' Swell Stop'd Diapason  58
8' Salicional   58
4' Harmonic Flute   58

Pedal
16' Ped. Bourdon   27
Gr. to Ped. CoupIer
Sw. to Ped. Coupler

Bellows Signal

The congregation was initially Swedish, and the organ was installed about a year after the
present building was built According to records in the Brown County Historical Society (New Ulm,
MN), the organ cost $1000. Installed in the balcony, the organ remains nearly as built, down to
the intact stencilling on the facade pipes; the only obvious changes are the removal of two
composition pedals, and the addition of a chimes unit on its own keyboard. The Viol and the
Salicional each have 12 stopped basses, and the Dulciana takes its bottom octave from the Viol
The Doppel Flute, Stop'd Diapason and Bourdon are of wood, while the rest of the pipes are
spotted metal or zinc.


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