Organ of the Dorpskerk Nieuw Scheemda

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Organ of the Dorpskerk Nieuw Scheemda
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General
alternative name Schnitger organ
place Dorpskerk Nieuw Scheemda
Organ builder Arp Schnitger
Construction year 1695
Last renovation / restoration 1968/1988, Metzler / Bernhardt Edskes
epoch Baroque
Organ landscape Netherlands
Technical specifications
Number of registers 8th
Number of rows of pipes 10
Number of manuals 1
Tone tract Mechanically
Register action Mechanically
Organ in 1935

The organ of the Dorpskerk Nieuw Scheemda in the municipality of Oldambt in the Dutch province of Groningen is a positive from the organ builder Arp Schnitger from 1695. The four-foot-based instrument has eight stops on a manual and an attached pedal . Besides the organ in Bergstedt Church , the work in Nieuw Scheemda is the only surviving positive by Schnitger. After its reconstruction in 1968, the instrument played a major role at the Groninger Schnitger Conference in August 1969.

Building history

New building by Schnitger in 1698/1699

According to Schnitger, he supplied the church with a small organ with seven registers without a pedal. Little is known about the construction and the further history. Schnitger built a case for ten registers that would have been enough for a two-manual organ with a double drawer.

The brochure structure is divided into five parts. The elevated, polygonal central tower is surrounded by two two-story flat fields, which are divided by a battlement bar and whose whistles are now silent. Instead of pointed side towers, Schnitger built two large flat fields on the outside for practical reasons. All pipes fields include top and bottom with white setted from veil work. The carving next to the central tower and the side wings show openwork acanthus tendrils . The central tower is completed by a crown with a gold-plated pommel. The white side wings end in gilded, music- making putti with wind instruments.

Later work

Schnitger's master apprentice Johan Radeker had the organ in care until 1719. The hobby organ builder Roelf Const worked on the instrument in 1784 and serviced it. After the enlargement of the organ loft in 1809 changed Nicolaas Anthonie Lohman, son of Dirk Lohmann , in 1810 the disposition . He renewed the prospect pipes and replaced three registers. In 1817/1818 carved side wings were added. WK Beukema replaced the wedge bellows with a magazine bellows with a scoop bellows around 1920.

Restorations

With the advice of Klaas Bolt and Cornelius H. Edskes , the Metzler Orgelbau company, under the direction of Bernhardt Edskes, reconstructed the original condition. Only the prospect pipes from 1810 were retained. The wind chest, keyboard and action have been restored and the original disposition restored. The blind wings from 1817/1818 were replaced by carved wings (17th or 18th century) that came from the former organ of the secularized church in Eppenhuizen (municipality of Eemsmond , Prov. Groningen), which itself was possibly the work of Schnitger's workshop could be.

The Schnitger pipe inventory, which had partly been moved on the wind chest, was returned to its original location. For the registers that were replaced, Schnitger scale lengths served as a template for a reconstruction, partly using material from Lohman. The labia of the prospect pipes in the central tower were corrected and their cores replaced. The trumpet 8 ′ was reconstructed from the organ of the Dorpskerk Eenum .

Edskes carried out further measures in 1988. He moved the wedge bellows across behind the organ, renewed a wind tunnel and lowered the wind pressure a little. He also re-intoned the pipework and modified the mood. The side wings with the angels come from the broken Lohman organ in Eppenhuizen and were attached in 1990.

Disposition since 1968 (= 1695)

I Manual CDEFGA – c 3
Praestant 4 ′ S / L / E
Holpijp 8th' S.
Quintadena D 8th' L / E
Fluit 4 ′ S / E
Quint 3 ′ S / E
Octaav 2 ′ S.
Mixing door III E.
Trumpet 8th' E.
Pedal CDEFGA – d 1
attached S.
  • Tremulant (S), windless
Remarks
S = Schnitger (1695)
L = Lohman (1810)
E = Edskes (Metzler) (1968/1988)

Technical specifications

  • 8 registers, 10 rows of pipes.
  • Wind supply :
    • 1 wedge bellows (Edskes)
    • Wind pressure: 64 mm water column
  • Windchest (Schnitger)
  • Action:
    • Keyboards (Schnitger)
    • Tone action: mechanical
    • Stop action: mechanical
  • Mood :
    • modified mid-tone tuning
    • Pitch: one semitone above normal (a 1 = approx. 466 Hz)

literature

Web links

Commons : Organ of the Church of Nieuw Scheemda  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arp Schnitger Orgeln (Dutch), accessed on March 2, 2018.
  2. ↑ Fock: Arp Schnitger and his school. 1974, p. 236.
  3. ↑ a b Edskes, Vogel: Arp Schnitger and his work. 2nd edition 2013, p. 61.
  4. ↑ Edskes, Vogel: Arp Schnitger and his work. 2nd edition 2013, p. 190.
  5. ↑ a b Edskes, Vogel: Arp Schnitger and his work. 2nd edition 2013, p. 191.
  6. ↑ Victor Timmer: 'Een zeer aftandsch instrument'. Uit Groninger kerken huispijporgels (en related instruments). In: Het Orgel . Volume 62, 2018, Issue 1, pp. 20–33 (on Eppenhuizen: pp. 21–24). The organ in Eppenhuizen came from the 17th or 18th century and was replaced by a new instrument in 1882. Based on a drawing of the Eppenhuizen organ, Timmer refers to the fact that important details (design of the prospectus or arrangement of the pipes in the prospectus) are similar to the preserved Schnitger organs in Hamburg-Bergstedt (positive) and in Mensingeweer (Rückpositiv, formerly in Pieterburen ) exhibited. Timmer continues to raise the possibility for discussion that the current grand pianos in Nieuw Scheemda could be the original. You should then have wandered back and forth between the organs in Nieuw Scheemda and Eppenhuizen.
  7. ↑ page by H.-W. Coordes , accessed March 2, 2018.

Coordinates: 53 ° 12 ′ 36.3 ″  N , 6 ° 56 ′ 33.1 ″  E