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Selected live recordings from The Lutheran Church of The Incarnate Word , Rochester, N.Y.

 

 

The 1869 Samuel Bohler Organ

Dedicated 22 October 2006 - The Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word

Rochester, New York

Samuel Bohler Organ

Introduction of the Instrument - Tom Madden October 22, 2006
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 Ray Brunner by Bohler Organ

THE RESTORER

Raymond J. Brunner has been building and restoring organs in the Lancaster, PA area for twenty-five years. He has extensive knowledge of and expertise with the Pennsylvania Dutch and German organ traditions, and is the author of That Ingenious Business: Pennsylvania German Organ Builders, a study of Pennsylvania German organ builders from the 18th through the early 20th centuries.

 

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Specifications of the Organ 

Built in 1869 by Samuel Bohler,  Reading, Pennsylvania

 

Manual, 54 notes

Open Diapason                        8’         (from low G, 5 wood and 42 metal pipes)

Dulciana                                   8’         (from tenor c, 37 metal pipes)

Claribel                                    8’         (from tenor c, 42 open wood pipes)

Stopped Diapason                    8’         (from tenor c, 42 stopped wood pipes)

Stopped Diapason Bass            8’         (from low C, 12 stopped wood pipes)

Principal                                   4’         (54 metal pipes)

Fifteenth                                   2’         (54 metal pipes)

Tremulant

 

Pedal, 13 notes

Bourdon                                   16’       (13 stopped wood pipes)

Coupler                                                (couples manual to pedal)

 

Pitch A-438 @ 72F, equal temperament tuning.

Wind pressure, 3” water column.

Electric blower, 0.25 HP Laukhuff Ventus.


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