Is anyone here familiar (played it, heard it, or worked on it) with the Wangerin organ on the OCH website? John Bishop at OCH doesn't seem to have time to reply to emails. I would like to know more about where it was, why it is available now (church can't afford to rebuild, doesn't use it, closing, or getting new organ?), what condition it is in, whether there is more unification than specified, etc. Here is the link:
Having some familiarity with a III/24 Wangerin in a seminary, I wouldn't be too excited about this organ, especially for 25,000. The stoplist seems to have voices not expected in a Wangerin of that age, plus the pipes aren't all leaning on each other. It appears to be the original console (the one I played had a recycled Reuter console) and if the original windchests are still there, you're in for it! Not to mention the relays. ( I calledit "The Randomizer": until the organ had been played for a while the contacts didn't "make." So for the hapless seminarian organist who would naively flip it on and start playing the opening hymn, what came out were random notes in each chord. The choir director would give the organist ugly looks and wave her hands in greater gestures, somehow thinking it would make the poorbeast produce the notes actually played. Plus, everyone who played the instrument sounded equally bad; perhaps it was "The Equalizer" also.)
I must chuckle over the "Old World Craftsmanship." The Titanic had "Old World Craftsmanship."
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