David Tannenberg
1770
German Reformed Church [1753]
Lancaster, PA, US
17 Ranks
Instrument ID: 49362 ● Builder ID: 6154 ● Location ID: 43434
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IMAGES
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STOPLISTS
| Haupt Manual🛈 | ||
| 8' | Principal | |
| 8' | Grob Gedackt | |
| 8' | Viol de Gambe | |
| 6' | Quinta | |
| 4' | Octave | |
| 4' | Klein Gedackt | |
| 2' | Supper Octave | |
| IV | Mixtur |
| Hinterwerk🛈 | ||
| 8' | Flauto Traversa | |
| 8' | Quinta Tona | |
| 4' | Principal | |
| 4' | Flöt duo | |
| 8' | Hautboy |
| Pedal🛈 | ||
| 16' | Supbass | |
| 8' | Violon |
Spellings from the original contract; pitches on knobs in German, i.e., "8Fuß"
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CONSOLES
Features:
2 Manuals 3 Divisions15 StopsMechanical (Unknown) Key ActionMechanical Stop ActionStop Layout: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Expression Type: Unknown
Combination Action: None
Control System: Unknown or N/A
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DETAILS
This instrument is: Not Extant and Not Playable in this location
The Reformed congregation in Lancaster signed a contract with Tannenberg on February 27, 1769 for a 15 stop organ of two manuals and pedal. This contract has been preserved in the church archives. The contract states that Tannenberg was to make all parts except the case. There were three bellows - each to be nine by four feet. The organ was to be completed by July 1, 1770 and cost £250. The case was made by George Burkhardt, a noted cabinet maker in Lancaster and the uncle of Conrad Doll. The five sectional case was quite impressive with much fine detail. The Tannenberg organ was installed in the church's first building from 1758.
Among the organists of the church were Conrad Doll and Caspar Schaffner. Both large keyboard music books by Schaffner have survived and provide a very important view of music from early Lancaster.
The Tannenberg organ was moved into the congregation's new church building in 1854. Here it remained until 1885 when it was replaced with an organ by Charles Durner. Durner used Tannenberg's case but changed the front pipes to zinc dummies in Tannenberg style. Side extensions were added to the case for the pedal pipes. The Durner organ was discarded in the 1950's but the front of the case remains in the church.
-- davidtannenberg.com
Database Manager on May 24th, 2012:
Updated through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -- The "Historical Papers and Addresses of the Lancaster County Historical Society," published by the Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa), 1917, report "A pipe organ was built for the First Reformed Church of Lancaster in 1769. It cost $668. Tannenberg built it. But even that was not the first one. Witham Marshe's diary, written in 1744, tells us 'there was a very poor organ in this church and badly played by the organist'"
Database Manager on March 28th, 2012:
Updated through online information from T. Daniel Hancock.
Database Manager on March 17th, 2012:
Identified through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -- The case remains in the church and has been integrated into the 1885 Durner organ, which replaced the Tannenberg. The Durner organ was in turn discarded in the 1950s, but the case remains in the church.
Webpage Links: 1770 Tannenberg Organ in Lancaster
Related Instrument Entries: Unknown Builder (1854) , Charles F. Durner (1885) , J. W. Steere & Sons (Opus 542, 1905) , W. S. Merritt (1933)
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