Better Pipe Organ Database

Jacob Humell (1625 ca.)

National Music Museum, University of South Dakota
414 East Clark Street
Vermillion, SD

Images

2018 - Interior view of chest organ (Photograph by Emanuele Marconi, former National Music Museum Conservator, submitted by Margaret Downie Banks/Margaret Downie Banks)

2018 - Keyboard side of chest organ (Photograph by Emanuele Marconi, former National Music Museum Conservator, submitted by Margaret Downie Banks/Margaret Downie Banks)

2018 - Front view of chest organ (Photograph by Emanuele Marconi, former National Music Museum Conservator, submitted by Margaret Downie Banks/Margaret Downie Banks)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
1 manuals
6 stops
6 registers
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Manual compass: 45 notes
Pedal Type: No Pedalboard
Expression Type: No Enclosed Divisions
Combination action: None

Notes

2020-11-04 - Signed on a square tin pipe: *H / Jacob / Humell / C* Four octaves, C-c3 (45 keys with short octave). Naturals made of boxwood, accidentals of darkened wood. Two hand-operated gravity-fed bellows on top. Pitch is about ¾ tone above A=440. Length: 81 cm Width: 50 cm Height: 87 cm National Music Museum catalog #: NMM 4031. Purchased in 1986 from Bernhard von Hünerbein, Cologne, Germany. Purchase funds gift of the Rawlins Fund, 1986. -Margaret Downie Banks

2020-11-05 - Updated through online information from Margaret Downie Banks, Associate Museum Dir.: Note that this organ does NOT belong to the Univ. of SD; rather to National Music Museum, Inc., located on the USD campus. -Jim Stettner

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist from the Univeristy of South Dakota's National Music Museum website

Vermillion, South Dakota
University of South Dakota - National Music Museum

Jacob Humell. ca. 1625

MANUAL
[8']    Flöte Major
[4']    Flöte Minor
[2']    Oktave
[1/2']  Doppelte Mixtur
[1']    Prinzipal
[1/6']  Doppelter Zimbal

Taken from the console interior:

Doppelter Zimbal 1/6'
Flöte Major 8'
Flöte Minor 4'
Oktave 2'
Doppelte Mixtur 1/2'
Prinzipal 1'

NOTES
This chest organ, probably made during the first half of the 17th century,
may have been made in Kraków or southern Poland.

Four octaves, C-c3 (45 keys with short octave). Naturals made of boxwood, accidentals of darkened wood.

Two hand-operated gravity-fed bellows on top.

390 pipes. Pitch is about ¾ tone above A=440

Stops are registered by pulling string looped through the slider end.

Websites

Museum page for this instrument - Details, stoplist, provenance and photographs. (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)