![]() Peterson only to be dismantled three years later during a church renovation. ![]() This organ was modified in 1870 and restored in 1910 by S.E. For the Lovefeast after the consecration service on November 9, 1800, one thousand buns were baked but so many people attended that buns had to be cut in half to serve the two thousand present. When there was debate in the congregation about its proper place, the matter was submitted to the lot that directed placement in the gallery on the steeple side. Such a large organ was usually located in a gallery with bellows placed in the attic. While most of the Lititz-built organs were white, this one was painted to resemble mahogany.Īfter he finished his last instrument for Salem, Tannenberg was too frail to make the trip for installation in Home Church and in his stead sent Bachmann who remained for a year to oversee the project. There were 150 metal pipes and 108 wooden pipes. Its console, the organ desk that contains keyboards and other controls, was reversed. His 1798 organ had one manual and five stops. In the case of Salem organs he suggested different stops (grouping of pipes) to make repairs easier. Tannenberg always considered three factors in design: size, durability, and use with other instruments. Father and son-in-law made most of their organ parts in a stone shop in Lititz but final assembly could be done only on site. In 1793, Johann Philip Bachmann, a trained instrument maker arrived and soon married David and Anna Rosina’s youngest daughter, Anna Maria. When Tannenberg had difficulty in hiring assistants, he requested help from Herrnhut. He had many assistants, one of whom, Joseph Ferdinand Bulitschek, moved to Wachovia where he built an organ for the Salem Gemeinhaus and another (destroyed in a 1942 fire) for Bethania Chapel. ![]() Tannenberg and his family moved to Lititz in 1765 where he is known to have produced 41 instruments before his death in 1804 in nearby York where he had gone to install an organ. ![]() It was used at Friedberg Moravian Church from 1824 until about 1900. It remained in use in Bethabara until 1798 when it was moved to Single Brothers’ House. This small one-rank organ, set up by Brother Johann Michael Graff, was played for the first time on July 8, 1762. In the early 1760s they constructed an organ for the Bethabara congregation, the first of the Wachovia trio. In 1757 he became assistant to Johann Gottlob Klemm, a Moravian organ builder trained at Dresden, and with him built and repaired instruments for Pennsylvania churches. Shortly thereafter he married Anna Rosina Kern. Tannenberg, born at Berthelsdorf, in Saxony near Herrnhut, 1728, was educated in Moravian schools before emigrating to the Bethlehem colony in 1749 to work as a joiner. It was used in two Salem chapels until it was stored in 1864 to be restored 100 years later by McManis Organ Company for the Single Brothers Saal. This instrument was first played for a song service (Singstunde) on May 22, 1798. More recently the Society has contributed $4000 for the preservation and conservation of an organ made by Tannenberg in 1798 for the Salem community. The Wachovia Historical Society pledged $12,000 to be paid over five years in support of this restoration. The parts of this organ, one of the three built by Tannenberg between the early 1760s and 1800 for the Wachovia settlement, had been stored in the attic of the old Boys School. In the summer of 1998, the great organ built in 1800 for Home Moravian Church and dismantled in 1913, was exhibited at the Gallery at MESDA (Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts) so that the public could watch the Staunton, Virginia, organ builders, Taylor and Boody, reassemble an historically important musical jigsaw puzzle. By the end of the eighteenth century there were three pipe organs in Wachovia built by David Tannenberg, an astonishing number in the new nation.
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