Goetze & Gwynn
2008

Updated through online information from Steve Barrell. -- Pulldown pedalboard consists of 15 notes played by the left foot, while the organ is pumped by the right foot. The case was lost / destroyed, and was reconstructed by Goetze & Gwynn after examination of four extant organs by de Baecker, a 1795 water color painting of (possibly) this organ, and data in an extant 18c diary (including case measurements) kept by the original owner. The pipework is from an earlier, possibly 17c, organ. The 8' Prestant (treble) is 19c. Meantone tuning at about A=435.

This is a rebuild of an existing organ.
Identified by Steve Barrell, based on personal knowledge of the organ.
-- The wind chest and inside pipework were purchased in Amsterdam by Steve Barrell, keyboard artist and scholar. They are from an organ made by Ludovicus de Backer of Middelburg in Zeeland Province, The Netherlands, in the mid 18thc., One pipe is inscribed "Middelburg 1880". The previous owner said that case carvings (unavailable for purchase) resembled the organ depicted in a well-known watercolour painting illustrated in Jan Gierveld-s "Het Nederlandse Huisorgel in de 17de en 18de eeuw" (Utrecht 1977).

The pipes, as seems to have been usual practice with de Backer, are second hand, and appear to be 17th century. The sound is exquisitely sweet. The oak case, keyboard, bellows and action are new, designed by Martin Goetze, based on examples of de Backer-s work in Vlijmen, Oirschot and Gapinge (NL) and in the Vleeshuis museum in Antwerp.

The organ possesses a divided keyboard, and a pedal-board of 15 notes, CC-D, and is pumped by the player's right foot.