Is the organist on the spectrum? Seems like it.

Is it still intact and working?

Beautiful ❤ your pedalwork in socks?

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

I am a Catholic. Growing up, we had several Lutheran neighbors, Missouri Synod, and ALC or LCA. don't remember. There were wonderful neighbors. I respected them. When I was in Grade School, i listened to KFUO in St. Louis (a Lutheran station at Concordia Seminary). I always thought Lutherans had the best music.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Tell that person to stop banging around down there!😜

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.

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

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

Wicks often during the 60s&70s disposed good pipe work for their junk. They did make good wood pipes. But the reeds varied a lot if they were any good. That faggotto can’t hold its self. Doesn’t seem like they kept much of the Tellers.

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

Love hearing the Richard Purvis toccata played

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

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

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

Perhaps a Clarion, as in the Schlicker or a Schalnei

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

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

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

I’m almost certain that this organ was used in either a movie or series and played off as an organ from the 1600s in Mexico. Just judging by the façade as I remember it.

The organ in St. Boniface church in New Vienna sure is special. Thanks for sharing!

That full reed chorus on the pedal !!!!!! Have mercy !!!!! It's wonderful. That's what it will sound like when Christ returns !

⭐️🔑🔑🤩🏏🤩🥇🥇🏠🕯️👨‍👩‍👧👨‍👩‍👧

This old gem deserves a 16’Trombone as an addition.

Those are the sounds an organ should make!

I was waiting for a table at a restaurant in St. Louis, and noticed Rosie there wearing a “E.& G.G. Hook and Hastings” cap. I struck upo a conversation with her and learned a bit about this instrument and she told me about this video. I told her dinner companions that it was about a one-in-a-thousand chance that another customer at a restaurant would recognize what “E. & G.G. Hook” was!

What is the intro piece?

Absolutely tremendous Instrument. I remember back when I was younger I would always check out the recording of Todd Wilson playing the organ works of Maurice Duruflé from my local public library and absolutely falling in love with it. It was an absolute thrill and a dream come true to hear that instrument live during the 2019 Organ Historical Society Convention, having Alcée Chriss III play the Duruflé Toccata and following it with an encore of a transcription of Tea for Two by Art Tatum on that pipe organ was nothing short of a tremendous recital.

The Irony of this is that I never got a chance to hear this organ in real life when I lived in Iowa, but I am glad Brent and Andrew did a video here this organ is absolutely tremendous for a rural parish church. As far as other historic Iowa pipe organs there is an 1896 II/27 W.W. Kimball pipe organ at Union Sunday School in Clermont, Iowa. (Roughly an hour's drive northwest of New Vienna) That particular organ is the largest surviving unaltered Tubular-Pneumatic pipe organ built by Kimball. I am absolutely thrilled to see someone document the diversity pipe organs of Iowa. I have a personal connection to two pipe organs in Cedar Rapids they are the II/15 1992 Op. 22 M.L. Bigelow tracker organ at St. Andrew Lutheran Church which was the first pipe organ I played, and the 3/12 1928 WurliTzer Theatre Organ at the Paramount Theatre in downtown Cedar Rapids which was where I became a theatre organ enthusiast on the behalf of the late James Oliver who maintained and slightly enlarged that instrument in the mid-1980s. It was also one of two theatre organs that were nearly lost in a calamitous flood in 2008.

Very fine artistic colors and sound derived from merging older Moller organ and the newer Reuter. The Reuter VP really knows how to explain how they produced this instrument; it is worth listening to!

OHS visited this church and organ at the 1986 convention in eastern Iowa. My first OHS convention. New Vienna was the evening recital that particular day of the convention, William Kuhlman played the recital. The organ received its OHS historic organ plaque at the beginning of the recital. It was a memorable evening, the temperature was reasonable and before the recital some of the church windows were open and birds were singing in the churchyard. To come across this magnificent church and beautiful organ in a very small town far out in the Iowa countryside seemed a bit other-worldly. (I grew up in NJ and prior to 1986 had never been to Iowa, so what did I know?) I'm so glad to see the instrument is still there and that the church understands and values what it has.

What a beautiful instrument. George Ashdown Audsley (writing around the time this organ was built) was very vocal in his belief that the main 8ft should be called "Principal" rather than "Open Diapason", and he was also strongly of the opinion that choruses should be much milder than those normally supplied by English and American organ builders. Hearing this one makes me think he was definitely onto something. With a dab of TLC this organ could sound spectacular but what a testament to Schuelke that it sounds as good as it does after over 130 years. Thank you for posting.

Amazing! Do you know where Schuelke learned his trade in Germany? Sauer?

Wonderful organ, lovingly maintained.

What a lovely instrument! A side note, When I looked up the town on a map app, while not an organ site, is where the movie Field of Dreams was filmed.

What a fabulous instrument! I should think that even our best builders today would be proud of this work.

what was the total cost of this project?

My guess is that calling the knob "Oboe & Bassoon" tells 1890s organists that the rank is full compass. Thank you for posting this video. I had forgotten about this pilgrimage instrument; and, man, this organ really gives a good account for itself.

Andrew playing this organ brought the hymn Salve Regina to life! I like how Andrew has the inclination to play and demonstrate in such a way to incorporate not just demonstrating an organ, he connects well with each setting he is in.

The comments on here complaining about the organist’s demeanor are just cruel and unnecessary. Brett thanks her for demonstrating on short notice. She was not prepared or expecting to do this, and played brilliantly when demonstrating organ music on the instrument. Be kind, and appreciate the gifts she brought to this FREE video you are enjoying.

WOW That organ has a BEAUTIFUL HIGH REGISTER!!!! And what a selection of stops for an organ of that age!!!!

This is one of the nicest organs that you have explored. What a gem, all around!

WOW!!! what an absolutely beautiful instrument!