Veil board

Organ in Freiberg Cathedral with gilded veil boards over the pipes

Veil boards are usually wood carvings on the prospectus of an organ . They are used to decorate the organ and 'disguise' the empty spaces between the pipes and the case frame. Veil boards are filigree and permeable in order not to shield the sound of the pipes on the one hand, but to modulate it easily on the other. Sometimes the ornamental pattern of pipe shades are not carved but as fretwork ornamental cut. In contemporary organ building, modern metal veil boards can be found, which can be made of perforated sheets , wire mesh or metal rods. The entirety of the veil boards is called the veil work.
Other or older names for veil boards are blind wings or blind wings ; z. As were the sculptor Simon Fries 1685 Zwey cut blündtflügl to the organ of Maria Plain paid in 1686 made Matthias Steinle, cabinetmaker in Mattsee , a housing and Blindfliegel a positive in the Arnsdorfer Church of.
Italian organs usually have no veil boards, but in some cases instead of the same (partially stylized) curtains, such as. B. the Serassi organ (1795) in the St. Peter parish church of Madignano , and the Lombard organ (1818) in the cathedral of Avignon .
The term veil board or blind wing is also used for decorative leaves on the side of baroque altarpieces .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ASP : Act 1180/14, concerning Maria Plain. Quoted from: Roman Matthias Schmeißner: Studies on organ building in pilgrimage churches of the Archdiocese of Salzburg . Dissertation University Mozarteum Salzburg 2012, p. 249 and 261.
2. ^ ÖKT 10 : The monuments of the political district of Salzburg, Vienna 1913, p. 378.
3. ↑ Example: Description of the Altar of the Mauritius Church of Biberach (Wolfgang Westermann: . Parish Church "St. Mauritius" Prinzbach-Schoenberg parish of St. Mauritius in 2002.)