Vermillion, South Dakota
University of South Dakota - National Music Museum

Josef Loosser (Swiss), 1786


MANUAL
[8']     Copel.            stopped wood
[4']     Principal.        metal, AA# to e2 in the facade; wooden pipes in the bass
[4']     Flöten.           open wood; CC to b stopped
[2']     Ocdav.            metal, with wooden pipes in the bass
[1 2/3'] Quint.            metal, with wooden pipes in the bass
[1']     Subterocdav.      metal, with wooden pipes in the bass

ACTION: Mech. Key & Stop    VOICES: 6    STOPS: 6    RANKS: 6    PIPES: 294

NOTES
Single manual, tracker action. Compass: C to c3 (49 notes)
Pine case, painted in traditional style of the Toggenburger valley.
Pitch: slightly less than a semitone below A 440.

PROVENANCE
Purchased in 1990 from Martin Goetze and Dominic Gwynn, Nottinghamshire,
England.

The organ was restored in England in 1988. At that time it belonged to
Julian Berkeley, Ramsdell, England. It was given to him by Francis Lloyd,
who inherited the organ from his mother, Lady Berkeley, who kept the organ
in her house in Assisi in Italy in a music room which had formerly been the
church of San Lorenzo. Lady Berkeley ("Molly") was Mary Emlyn Lloyd, daughter
of John Lowell, Boston, Massachusetts. She was the second wife of Randall
Thomas Mowbray, 8th Earl Berkeley (1865-1942).