Rysum organ
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Rysum
Rysum is a village located 15 kilometers west of Emden in the region of East Frisia, Germany. It is home to the Rysum organ, one of the earliest pipe organs in playable condition.-External links:* *...
, north Germany, is the oldest instrument of its kind in northern Europe that still largely has its original pipes. It is also one of the oldest playable church organs
Pipe organ
The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air through pipes selected via a keyboard. Because each organ pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ranks, each of which has a common timbre and volume throughout the keyboard compass...
in the world alongside those in Sion
Sion, Switzerland
Sion is the capital of the Swiss canton of Valais. it had a population of .Landmarks include the Basilique de Valère and Château de Tourbillon. Sion has an airfield for civilian and military use, which, because of its location in a valley, causes a reasonable amount of noise pollution. FC Sion...
, Kiedrich
Kiedrich
Kiedrich is a community in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany.- Location :The community lies in the Rheingau on the south slope of the Taunus, some 2 km north of the town of Eltville am Rhein and 3 km from the banks of the Rhine.- Neighbouring...
and Ostönnen. It was originally built in 1457 and rebuilt in 1513. After undergoing several other modifications through the years it was restored to its 1513 condition by Jürgen Ahrend
Jürgen Ahrend
Jürgen Ahrend is a German organ builder famous for restoring instruments such as the Rysum organ and the Arp Schnitger organ in St. Jacobi, Hamburg as well as building original instruments...
and Gerhard Brunzema in 1959. The organ has seven organ stop
Organ stop
An organ stop is a component of a pipe organ that admits pressurized air to a set of organ pipes. Its name comes from the fact that stops can be used selectively by the organist; some can be "on" , while others can be "off" .The term can also refer...
s on one keyboard
Musical keyboard
A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument, particularly the piano. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the...
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Stop List
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- Meantone tuning
- Slider chest*
- Wedge bellow*
Annotations
Literature
- Walter Kaufmann: Die Orgeln Ostfrieslands. Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich 1968.
- Ralph Nickles: Orgelinventar der Krummhörn und der Stadt Emden. Hauschild, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3929902621.
- Harald Vogel, Günter Lade, Nicola Borger-Geweloh: Orgeln in Niedersachsen. Hauschild, Bremen 1997, ISBN 3931785505.
- Harald Vogel, Reinhard Ruge, Robert Noah, Martin Stromann: Orgellandschaft Ostfriesland. 2. print. Soltau-Kurier-Norden, Norden 1997, ISBN 3928327194.