2019 Reuter - Wicks - Tellers/Sommerhoff Organ - Basilica of St. Francis Xavier, Dyersville, Iowa 

Brent and Andrew make an excellent team . . really enjoy their videos and demonstrations/explanations.....

This was unexpected! What great sounds, and all the ancient to old to modern pipework goes together amazingly. I can hear that this organ can play American, German, and even fiery French very effectively. What could’ve been a Frankenstein is actually a surprising tonal masterpiece. Bravo to whoever brought all of this together! One of my new favorites!

This organ, the church, the acoustics were truly beautiful.

LOVE the Wicks strings!

Lovely instrument. Reuter’s work is proof that resuse and adaptation of existing pipework can work well.

Love hearing the Richard Purvis toccata played

A wonderful result they achieved amalgamating the components here. Thanks Andrew and Brent.

I am loving this series of Iowa organs. Thank you.

Wonderful to hear the Purvis Toc. Festiva in the background.

Nice organ Brent I enjoy the video’s of the organ and pipes

Very nice blend of the various builders. Thanks for sharing.

This organ just has such a nice sound and character to it. Not all may agree, but I do like this one in particular. At least fr the video, nothing sounds overpowering and it all blends very well.

Good sounding organ.

The crumhorn and musette together make a great regal. That sort of nasty buzz really makes it pop.

The console is in a French style design which is really nice!

Given the different sources for the pipework in this organ, it's quite the (successful) Frankenstein's Monster of organ building.

Fascinating as always. Not sure what I'm seeing at 29"09 - inverted conical reeds (trumpets) but with slides on top held together with spiral springs? Never come across that before! One of them looks like a tuner's nightmare - slide not on level. But what an amazing sounding organ - for example that beautifully scaled Gt Fourniture that supports rather than screams over the chorus. And to echo what others have said - Brent and Andrew make an incredible presenting team. A very fine demonstration of an exceptional organ. Thankyou for posting.

Come to Pittsburgh!! Giant beckerath, huge skinner, casavants, ruffatis, mollers (nice ones)

Enjoyed the video! What's the toccata-like piece playing during the interior tour of the instrument?

This is another organ I ironically have not heard when I lived in Iowa, but I know where this is, in fact it is only just 25-30 miles to the north of where I used to go to for summer camp as a kid. It is really interesting that Wicks used a relatively unconventional material for their tuning slides on their metal pipework during the mid 20th century.

That great diapason chorus screams early 80’s Moller to me.

I grew up listening to a 1978 2/22 Wicks, and the Great Gedeckt here reminds me a lot of that organ's Great Bourdon. I think the Swell strings are better than the 1978 organ's Viola and Celeste, though.

Nice three manual mechanical action pipe organ so when keywords are couple together the key weight increases.

Perhaps a Clarion, as in the Schlicker or a Schalnei

Been loving these videos for years... but never understood why people that feel they must be in the building while during the recording, find it necessary not to just sit but must mess with the missals and hymnals in the pews and such. They even hit the audio recorder stand (14:50) in this video. smh. I know OMF and 'we' as visitors are guests, but come on peeps.

When are you coming to Pittsburgh to see the Von Beckerath at St. Paul’s Cathedral?

Gorgeous building. I love all the black. The current organ is stunning. Too bad Reuter got their mitts on it. In fifteen years, it will be falling apart, and the guarantees will have expired.