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.   Click to goto Ray's website

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.