THE 1748 ADAM EHRLICH ORGAN IN BAD WIMPFEN

The wonderful gothic protestant church of Bad Wimpfen is placed right next to the famous "blue tower". As Bad Wimpfen is located on a hill, the church as well as the blue tower can already be seen from some distance.
The baroque instrument inside the church has been built in 1747/48 by Johann Adam Ehrlich (1703-1784) and is the only completely preseved instrument of this famous organ builder, who was not only the founder of a whole dynasty of more than 18 organ and instrument builders, but is also often called the southern German Silbermann because of the exquisite tonal quality and the high-grade coverage type of his works.
This instrument can be seen as the ideal of the frankish organ.

Most interesting is the fact that right next to this instrument, in the Dominican church, one can find the other important Adam Ehrlich organ - a 32 stop instrument that was completed in 1752 directly after the other one. While the 1748 organ possesses a typically baroque disposition according to the southern and middle German tradition of the 17th and early 18th century, the 1752 instrument combines these traditions with the upcoming interest in emotionalism.

Unfortunately, the 1752 instrument has been restored in a very inexpert way in 1972, so that it has lost its wonderful sound nowadays. Many people are collecting money for the "re-restauration", but as the costs are esimated ca. 750,000 Euro (1,500,000 DM) it will take some more years until they can begin. Here is a picture of this wonderful instrument :

Of course - like in St. Johannes - PROSPECTUM supports this project. Every order of a "1748 Adam Ehrlich" sample set includes a donation to the Adam Ehrlich organ restauration society.
You may as well visit [www.orgelverein.de] and catch up on the latest news of the society or donate directly to them (their English page is under construction at the moment). Thanks a lot !

About this sample set :

This sample set has been recorded in 96kHz/24bit using Schoeps CMC5/Mk21 microphones and DBX 386 preamps.
It contains natural reverberation and all the original pipes - no repitched pipes have been used. The goal of this sample set is to reproduce the sound of this wonderful instrument as good as possible.

The HW2 version of this sample set ist identical but comes with the following temperaments :
Kirnberger II mod (1776) @ 440 Hz
Kirnberger II mod (1776) @ 468.4 Hz (original)