Better Pipe Organ Database

Johann Traugott Wandke (1867)

Bethlehem Lutheran Church
Round Top, TX

Images

2007-07-28 - Detail of Organ Case (Photograph by Friedemann Buschbeck/Database Manager)

2007-07-28 - Keyboard (Photograph by Friedemann Buschbeck/Database Manager)

2007-07-28 - Pronzipal 2 Foot Pipe ((with new tuning flap). Photograph by Friedemann Buschbeck/Database Manager)

2007-07-28 - Trompete 8 Fuss (Photograph by Friedemann Buschbeck/Database Manager)

2007-07-28 - Keyboard after Restoration (Photograph by Friedemann Buschbeck/Database Manager)

2007-07-28 - Organ Case (Photograph by Friedemann Buschbeck/Database Manager)

2025-03-03 - Detail of pipe showing Traugott Wandke's handwriting (Jeremy Clifton/Jeremy Clifton)

2025-03-03 - Console and facade (Jeremy Clifton/Jeremy Clifton)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
1 manuals
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 51 notes
Pedal Type: No Pedalboard
Expression Type: No Enclosed Divisions
Combination action: None

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1987 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Built in Round Top. All wood pipes. Restored c. 1966 by Ruben Frels. Historic Organ Recital 24 May 1987. Restored by Friedemann Buschbeck c. 1995. -Database Manager

2009-10-29 - Updated through online information from Richard Johnson. -- Round hand carved native cedar pipes -Database Manager

2015-09-13 - Updated through online information from Friedemann Buschbeck. -Database Manager

2016-07-26 - Updated through online information from T. Bradford Willis, DDS. <br>An article was published in The Banner-Press [Brenham, Texas] on Sunday, July 3, 2016 on pages A1 - A2, "Musical craftsmanship / Organ from 1860s still producing beautiful sounds" and it states the organ was dedicated on January 13, 1867. It also mentions the organ is in regular use. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken before restauration 2006 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Principal 4 Fuss (front)

Quinta 1 1/3 Fuss

Klein Gedeckt 4 Fuss

Gross Gedeckt 8 Fuss

Viola di Gamba 4 Fuss

Viola di Gamba 8 Fuss

Octave 2 Fuss

Regal 8 Fuss

Tremolo

Sperrventil

 [Received from Buschbeck Organbuilding 2015-09-13.]

Websites

Traugott Wandke Organ, 1865 Round Top - Description, photos, stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)