Unknown Builder

Organ relocated without any change.
Identified by James R. Stettner, using information from this web site: http://music.asu.edu/facilities/organ.php.
-- The AZ. State University School of Music website states, "The recently added Italian baroque organ built by Domenico Traeri for a church in Modena in 1742 is on indefinite loan to ASU. The Traeri organ has had only one of its 300 pipes replaced. Concert-goers can experience what it may have been like to hear organists play centuries ago. The installment of the Traeri organ at ASU is believed to be one of only four U.S. academic institutions, and the only campus in the southwest region, to house such a rare musical treasure. Other campuses that have Baroque organs include the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, The University of California, Berkeley and Cornell University. The instrument is utilized for performance, special classes and lessons in Italian Baroque music. Before its arrival in Tempe, the Traeri organ made a fateful journey. The organ was housed in a church that was bombed during WWII. Before the church was razed in 1950, the organ was purchased by an Austrian, who kept it safe in his attic for the next 50 years. Despite the environmental challenges the organ has faced, it has survived nearly completely intact – only one of its 300 pipes has been replaced. The Traeri organ was brought to the U.S. in 2004 by one of the foremost American organ builders, who restored it to its original condition. The instrument is in one-fourth-comma meantone tuning with a short octave compass CDE-c3. The specification is Principale, Ottava, Decimaquinta, Decimanona, Vigesima seconda, Voce umana."