Jim Stettner on November 5th, 2020:
Updated through online information from Margaret Downie Banks, Associate Museum Dir.: Note that organ does NOT belong to the Univ. of SD, but rather to National Music Museum, Inc., located on USD's campus.
Margaret Downie Banks on November 4th, 2020:
Engraved on center pipe: *1786 / isl.* Handwritten in ink on paper at back of pallet box: *Durch Joseph Loosser Orgeln Macher Von Lüppertsweil in der gemeind Cappel in Toggenburg / 1786*
Case exterior painted in traditional style of the Toggenburger valley. Gilded carvings in front of pipes and at top of marbled cornices.
NMM catalog #4897. Purchase funds gift of Margaret Ann and Hubert H. Everist, Sioux City, Iowa, 1990.
Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
Status Note: There 1995.
Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
1796? Builder of L?ppfertswell, St. Gall, Switzerland. No pedals. Purchased 1990. Assembled and regulated here by English builder, Edward Bennett.