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 organ, the church, the acoustics were truly beautiful.

LOVE the Wicks strings!

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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)

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.

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.

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