1890s Schuelke Organ - First Presbyterian Church, Waunakee, Wisconsin
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- Brent Johnson and Andrew Schaeffer explore the Schuelke organ of First Presbyterian Church in Waunakee, built sometime in the 1890s and restored by the Wahl Organ Company in Appleton, Wisconsin.
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First Presbyterian Church Wanankee: www.myfpc.org/
Music heard in this episode: Georg Böhm - Capriccio in D major: ks4.imslp.net/...
Samuel Wesley - Gavotte in F major: ks4.imslp.net/...
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I was introduced to Schuelke's work in the 1986 Organ Historical Society convention in Iowa. He was clearly one of USA's very best builders! I now live in Ann Arbor MI, and hadn't known until this video that Schuelke had lived here.
So happy to know that this beautiful instrument has been enjoyed by multiple congregations! Too few of these utilized in houses of worship nowadays.
Wonderful little instrument! Thanks for the excellent demo! This organ follows a rule I wish more instruments would follow: every rank is beautiful individually one on one which makes for much more versatility.
Beautiful organ. And Andrew is an excellent organist. He not only demo's the stops, but actually plays them. (Let alone, many of my favorite hymns and songs)
What a beautiful instrument, far greater than the sum of it’s parts. Also, the organist is wonderful. Thank you for the inspiring video!
This is the best of the OMF presentations I've seen. Thanks, Andrew.
Thank you for the Wesley at the end! 😊
What a pleasant surprise! I’ll admit I was expecting something very different. Great presentation too.
As others seem to have mentioned here I have been thinking that sometimes with organs less is more if the instrument is well balanced. Of course with a one manual and rather limited stoplist you won't be able to play some repertoire but it is very well balanced and each stop has a unique character which adds to the versatility. It seems like it would be great for hymn playing but can still have a regal, commanding character when desired. It seems on some larger organs there are sometimes stops so similar that they can be redundant to others, but for a small organ this instrument provides a good balance of options. Great organ and great playing!
What a lovely organ. It reminds me of Kilgen trackers of the period and some of the smaller Hook & Hastings in terms of construction, but s bit brighter tonally. What a nice sweet singing sound! Organs today need more sweet and pretty sounds. The restoration work is very nice.
That instrument has a beautiful chorus, especially for a one manual instrument.
Edit: It's amazing how flexible and effective a small instrument can be. They wind up being some of my favorite instruments.
What a remarkably pleasant little organ!
Immediately recognized "Die güldne Sonne", Gerhardt 1666
That was outstanding, thank you.
It always excites me when the organ case is opened. ;p Anyways, thanks for the presentation!
I hope you and Andrew will be showing us that Klais at Madison Symphony soon!
Unfortunately, not on this trip. The hall required a substantial fee to open the doors and turn on the lights and let us in.
Nice to see so many wooden pipes!
As to the lack of a reed stop: it was not uncommon that smaller German and Austrian organs hadn't any at all. Even much larger organs often had no more than a single soft 16ft trombone in the pedals. Oboes, if present, were voiced very softly and were tonally used in the first place as an extension to the foundation stops, rather than as a solo stop proper. A second typical feature is how all those foundation stops, with many wooden ones, blend together gradually, indeed by not really increasing the volume, but by shading the colour, which was very much on purpose. These combined overtones produce delicate new shades, with full, round and radiant qualities, all by conserving polyphonic clarity as well, very important for German music, well into Reger's era. Professor Christophe Bossert has given some (quite lenghty) lectures on the subject, to be found on CZcams. I liked the Schülke organ very much! Very old-fashioned when built, but who cares? Let's then play mid-Century music on it ;-)
Thanks and all the best, Willem (cantor-organist in Antwerp, Belgium, E.F.Walcker organ 1905)
What a lovely organ!
Hello from First Presbyterian Church in Escanaba, Michigan. We're Packers fans here too! If you ever get up this way I'd love to show you the 1915 Hook & Hastings/2009 Lauck here, and I can tell you all about it's history.
Philip Stapert...have you documented the organ on the Organ Historical Society Database? If not yet, please consider yourself invited to do so when time and inclination permit.
A brave-sounding smaller instrument. 👍
Delightful instrument!! 🙂
You guys should do the organ at Saint Frances Cabrini in West Bend, Wisconsin.
There's a number of nice organs in West Bend to visit...a nice Möller at St. John's and a Reuter at Good Shepherd
Ron and Christoph Wahl, besides sensitive restorations, also build great practice instruments. Their voicing is 👍👍. Another Wisconsin bu
The church i grew up in had a 5 rank schuelke, which was originally a 1 manual tracker like this one. In the 1940's it was unified by Haas out of Milwaukee and placed under complete expression. It had an open diapason, stopped diapason, viole, celeste, and melodia. No reed but a cornet V on the swell. Was moved in the original building twice, then moved to the new church in 1971. Was replaced by a 1991 Austin and given to the Lastadian Lutheran church in Ishpeming mi. They had it rebuilt and solid state added. As far as i know it's still being used. Was a gutsy and better sounding old organ than the Austin that replaced it!
Matthew...what church was that? I want to make sure we have this on the OHS Database.
@@SeattleOrganMan the church was Redeemer Lutheran church LCMS Marquette, Michigan. The old organ was moved from Trinity Lutheran Church when it merged with Sion Lutheran church to form Redeemer.
I know the organ builders who restored this organ. I live in the town where they reside
It has a bit of heft no bigger than it is which is a surprise. Nice video
Schuelke must have never read the stop lists of Agricola in Adlung's "Practical Mechanics for Organists". In this 18th century book are a surprising number of organs, including small organs, with celestes. Sometime in the early 19th century, the celeste must have fallen out of favor until Cavaille-Coll invented the voix celestes.
Celestes were extremely rare in 19th century German organs. The 1855 Ladegast organ at Merseburg Cathedral -- on which Liszt's Ad Nos and BACH and Reubke's Sonata were premièred -- had only one among its 80 voices, an Unda Maris, which is in fact a II-rank Leiboichgedackt celeste. I've played the similar 1871 83-voice Ladegast in Schwerin, and its only celeste is also an Unda Maris, again a Lieblichgedeckt celeste. And many German organs had none at all. This lack was a matter of German 19th century musical esthetic: vibrato was used in string playing only as an ornament, typically no more than once per phrase, and not as a constant. The theorist Töpfer -- who designed the Schwerin organ -- wrote that organ tremolos were only used with the Vox humana stop. Ladegast actually apprenticed with Cavaillé-Coll, so must have become familiar with the French Voix céleste, yet Ladegast's tonal style nonetheless remained firmly German.
Another historical Wisconsin builder was Shaeffer, our of Slinger and Wangerin from Milwaukee. Shuelke was the superior builder of the Three.
Wow I'm surprised that there's no reed in this entire Organ, manual or the pedal! The only organs I'm familiar with having no reed pipes are the small continuo organs.
To me that's pretty good, I'm not a fan of reeds all that much
When this instrument was built, it was somewhat common for smaller instruments to not have reeds.
Very common in small country churches not to have reeds. Sometimes you'd find a labial oboe Your tuner would come once every ten years if you needed them or not! Reeds need minimal twice a year attention. Labial reed stops are kind of interesting, a show on them would be cool. Basically flue pipes that sound like reeds... but are always in tune.
@@markaustin4370 It's been almost a year since the last visit from the tuners where I am. The reed has stayed pretty well in tune. The 2' stops are another story...
Do you know what piece was played at 23:18
It is a German Lutheran Hymn called "Die Güldene Sonne" (The golden sun) by Johann Georg Ebeling, a baroque composer. Thanks to Andrew for playing this so beautifully!!
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I see he’s married
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Fire??? How???
Ughhh mega screens.