FREIBURG-IM-BRESGAU.
THE CATHEDRAL.—The Great Organ is a hanging one, and is pendent above a pillar half way down the north side of the nave. It was built in 1515, and repaired in 1818. It has two flat towers of seven pipes each, the largest being outside, with a V flat of 20 pipes between, above which is a statue of the Virgin and Child, with scroll work all gilt. The towers overhang the base on each side. The Choir Organ, which consists of a flat of nine pipes, between two flat towers of five pipes each, hangs in front of the organ gallery, which is a semi-octagon, with gilt open-work, and its corbel terminates in an angel playing a trombone. This organ is only played at the great festivals; the tone is said to be good. Showing under the south-east arch of the choir, is an organ placed on a platform, which fills up one bay of the south aisle. Its date is about 1700. It has three flat towers of five pipes each, the smallest in the centre with one pipe in each angle, so as to make the towers project slightly in front of the two flats, which contain ten pipes each. On each side of the case is a wooden screen containing a wheel window. The towers are crowned with open Gothic pinnacles, and the style is a mixture of Gothic and Renaissance. The organ gallery has open wood work about it. Three bellows stand in a loft on a level with the organ pipes. The blower stands on a floor level with the organ gallery, and works the bellows by means of ropes coming through the floor, as if he were ringing bells. The organ has but one manual, C C to f3 fifty-four notes, and a pedal from C C C to D, fifteen notes. Its naturals are black and its sharps white. Its contents are:
| Principal | 4 |
| Viole de Gambe | 8 |
| Quinte | 3 |
| Octave | 2 |
| Fagot Man. bass | 8 |
| Waldfloete disct | 8 |
| Octav bass | 8 |
| Sub-bass | 16 |
| Principal | 8 |
| Cornet | (Qy.) 8 |
| Bourdon | 8 |
| Floete | 4 |
| Mixtur | 5 ranks |
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| 2 } Draw stops without names. | |
| 3 } | |
The Nave Organ in this Church is a very good specimen of a hanging organ. 1869.
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FREIBURG IM BRESGAU
21ST. SEPTR. 1869.
ST. ——.—A Church (near the statue of Schwartz) the name of which I omitted to learn. At the west end in a very deep gallery, supported by many columns, is an organ of brown wood, in the Teutonic taste of the seventeenth century. It has a large centre tower, with a small flat of little pipes on each side; then a painted tower, beyond which is a wing of pipes, looking like the open shutter of a tryptich, the largest pipe being outside. The Choir Organ, which stands well away from the great case, has three towers, the least in the centre, with flats between. All the ornaments are painted white, and the pipes stand their natural heights, with carved work so fitted as to stand clear of them. The irregular effect is peculiar. 1869.