Porcelain organ

Organ positive, porcelain pipes in the prospectus, built by Orgelbau Jehmlich

A porcelain organ is an organ in which pipes are made of porcelain .

history

A loft find by Ludwig Zepner in 1950 inspired him to take up the attempts of Johann Joachim KÄNDER from the 1730s and those of Emil Paul Börner from the 1920s and to start building the first porcelain organ together with the company Jehmlich Orgelbau Dresden and the Staatliche Porzellans Realization of the Meissen Manufactory in 2000.

For the first time in the world, Zepner succeeded in developing the ceramic pipe shape through its manufacturing process, controlling the changes in the drying and firing process and thus producing tunable pipes. In this way, a positive organ with 22 porcelain pipes was created in the prospectus .

The further development and implementation of a porcelain organ with glockenspiel (from the same company) is the Meissen peacock from Evergreen Mall ( Yokohama ). a. with 49 pipes and 40 bells made of porcelain.

Disposition of the Jehmlich organ from 2000

Manual C – g 3 Gedackt B / D 8th' Reed flute B / D 4 ′ Porcelain flute B / D 2 ′ X Fifth B / D 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′

Remarks

X = in the prospectus

• Loop division at a ⁰ / b ⁰

Technical specifications

• 4 registers, 22 porcelain pipes, 36 wooden pipes, 170 metal pipes
• Body length of the largest porcelain pipe: 112 cm
• Body length of the smallest porcelain pipe: 48 cm
• Wind chest: sliding chest
• Casing:
  • Material: pear tree
  • Inside of the door leaves with porcelain plates decorated with crystal glaze (design: Christoph Ciesielski, Meissen)
• Action :
  • Mechanical tone action
  • Mechanical stop action
• Mood :
  • Height a ¹ = 415 Hz / 440 Hz / 465 Hz (transposable)

Recordings

• Sounding porcelain. Works by Johann Sebastian Bach , Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Matthias Eisenberg . Matthias Eisenberg on the Jehmlich organ with pipes made of Meissen porcelain. Jehmlich / Elton, Dresden 2001.

Web links

• Porcelain Organ 2000 Details on the website of Jehmlich Orgelbau Dresden
• Meissen Pfau 2007 Details on the website of Jehmlich Orgelbau Dresden
• Video

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Johannes Eichental: White Gold in Meißen - Conversation with Ludwig Zepner. Accessed July 22, 2011. (With views for details.)
2. ^ Ludwig Zepner - The sculptor and leader of the collective | MDR.DE , accessed July 22, 2011.
3. ↑ History of the origin of the porcelain pipe
4. ^ Patent granted , accessed July 24, 2011.
5. ↑ See Meissener Pfau , last paragraph. In: 300 years of Dresden and porcelain. Press release from July 2, 2007 on dresden.de. ( Memento from April 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Details from Jehmlich Orgelbau, accessed on July 22, 2011.