Better Pipe Organ Database

Vogelpohl & Spaeth Opus 12 (1898)

Bernadotte Lutheran Church
34122 515th Avenue
Lafayette, MN

Images

2009-09-05 - Organ in rear gallery (Photograph by Josh Sellner/Database Manager)

2009-09-05 - Organ case (Photograph by Josh Sellner/Database Manager)

2009-09-05 - Organ case from the left (Photograph by Josh Sellner/Database Manager)

2009-09-05 - Facade (Photograph by Josh Sellner/Database Manager)

2009-09-05 - Builder's nameplate (Photograph by Josh Sellner/Database Manager)

2009-09-05 - Manuals and coupler pistons (Photograph by Josh Sellner/Database Manager)

2009-09-05 - Pedalboard, composition pedals, Gr. to Ped. reversible (Photograph by Josh Sellner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
16 stops
16 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2004-10-30 - Stop list. -Database Manager

2009-09-07 - Updated through online information from Josh Sellner. -Database Manager

2010-01-31 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

2013-10-23 - Updated through online information from Richard C Greene. -Database Manager

2022-03-30 - "Restored in 1997 by the Rutz Organ Company, Inc., using the O.H.S. Guidelines." -- builder ad, *1998 OHS Handbook* -Paul R. Marchesano

2023-06-12 - According to the original Vogelpohl factory ledger in the possession of the Brown County Historical Society Museum in New Ulm, Minnesota, this organ cost $1,500.00 when it was installed in March of 1898. -Josh Sellner

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from the console September 5, 2009 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Lafayette, Minnesota
Bernadotte Lutheran Church

Vogelpohl & Spaeth   1898

GREAT	                  PEDAL
16 Bourdon	          16 Bourdon
8 Open Diapason	          8 Violincello
8 Doppel Flute	
8 Gamba	
8 Dulciana	
4 Principal	
2 Fifteenth	
8 Euphone	
Bellows Signal	
	
SWELL	
8 Stop’d Diapason	
8 Flute Harmonic	
8 Melodia	
8 Salicional	
4 Flute	
4 Fugara	
Tremulant	

COUPLERS
Swell to Great; Great to Pedal; Swell to Pedal.  
Couplers are activated by On/Off thumb pistons in the keyslips.

COMBINATION ACTION
Four unlabeled composition pedals.

Great Piano & Great Forte – 
    Draws and retires Great 16’ Bourdon, 8’ Open Diapason, 4’ Principal, and 2’ Fifteenth.

Swell Piano & Swell Forte – 
    Draws and retires Swell 8’ Harmonic Flute, 8’ Melodia, 4’ Flute, and 4’ Fugara.


[Received online from Josh Sellner September 07, 2009.]