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Carl Weigle was the creator of the famous organ factory, first located in Stuttgart and later in Leinfelden‑Echterdingen (D). Originally from Ludwigsburg, he learned He began making organs alongside the undisputed Master of the time in Germany: Eberhard Friedrich WALCKER, whose first wife was Weigle's aunt. Having contributed to some of Walcker's major works, Weigle established himself. on his own in 1845. First, Weigle built mechanical transmission organs, with the famous cone tuners of which he had closely followed the tuning. His organ in Freudenstadt dates back to 1849. But from 1870, he built an exclusively electrical transmission organ, making it a pioneer of this type of transmission. In 1873, he presented one of his instruments at the Vienna Exhibition. Its large organ with 3‑keyboards (48 Registers) from Stuttgart (D) (Evangelical Church of Saint Jean) was built in 1876. Very avant‑garde from the point of view of technical progress, he was a fruitful inventor and experimenter, not only of transmission systems but also of harmonization methods and new stops. Very fond of Double Mouth Stops, he is particularly credited with the creation of the Jubalfloete; that is, from the stops of two adjacent mouths, very loud even at low pressure. The Weigle house built also Oboes with Mouth and the famous High Pressure Registers with names as evocative as: Grosgebeckt, Solo Gamba, Stentorphon, Tuba mirabilis... Carl Weigle transmitted He passed his company on to his son Friedrich in 1880, when he had almost reached his hundredth Opus. Friedrich was very faithful to his father's traditions. The address plate of the organ of the Protestant church in Bischwihr is still written as follows: : "CARL G. WEIGLE ORGELBAUMEISTER (STUTTGART) OPUS 237, 1900." 1 Most of the time, organs of the first half of the 20th century received a "pneumatic" transmission. The key on the keyboard is a type of valve that allows pressurized air to be sent through a thin pipe. This makes its way from the keyboard to the bed base, where a small bellows inflates and activates the valve that feeds the sound tube with air. It is evident what motivated the use of this type of transmission: From this point on, you could put the keyboard in any location, that is, build "independent" keyboards. The independent keyboard was all the rage at the beginning of the century. In effect, this advancement allowed the organist to look at the nave or allow Let the choir stand in front of the organ, keeping the console away from it. |
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