New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-03-18
Spaeth Retires From Bust
ness Conducted For a
Quarter Century.
Vogelpohl & Sons Will Con-
tinue. Plan Improve
ments-

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organ making, during which time
their organs have become known
turnout the entire West, the firm of
Vogelpohl & Spaeth has been dis
solved. The factory is to be con-
tlnued, however, by H. H. Vogelpohl.
The new firm which will be known
as H. H. Vogelpohl & Sons, will
promptly begin period of expan-
! sion. The factory is to be enlarged
and new machinery installed this
summer.
For twenty-five years New Ulm
has been the home of the only pipe
organ factory in the Northwest. The
nearest rival factory is at Milwau-
kee. During this time the. firm of
Vogelpohl & Spaeth have made and
installed hundreds of organs turnout
the West. The greatest share of the
instruments have been erected in
Minnesota cities but they may also
be found in Nebraska, Ohio, Kansas,
Wisconsin and the Dakotas.
The firm is at the present time
building an organ for Ellsworth,
Kansas, and Ernest C. and Herman
A. Vogelpohl have been in Milwaukee
for the past three weeks installing
a big organ in the Salem Evangelical
church of that city. This organ is a
gigantic affair Of twelve registers
and over six hundred pipes. The
organ was dedicated March LIST and
was at that time tested by Prof.
Stanger of Illinois, who gave a re-
cital on it and declared it to be
superb as to tone and construction. It
is equipped with all the most modern
appliances and is furnished with an
]efectric blower. The cost Of the
organ was about $1,000. An un-
usual circumstance in connection with
it is that the church in which it is.
placed is within three blocks of a
rival Milwaukee organ company's.
factory. This certainly speaks we'll
for the quality of the New Ulm in
strumcnt and the enterprise of the.
New Ulm firm.
Messrs. Vogclpohl have not return
cd as yet but will be home some time
this week. They are making an ex-
tended business trip to Chicago,
SheDoygan and Minneapolis, LOOKING
Tor machinery for the factory. The
new machinery to be installed is a
very complicated woodworking ma
chine for scroll-work, band-sawing.
joining, etc., and is capable of a doz-
en- different processes to save time
and labor. It will cost in the NEIGH
borhood of $500. An additional $500
will be spent in charging the pres
ent factory.
The nrocoeS Of -ool;.
pipe organ is a wonderfully intricate
one. The innumerable parts must be
ntted together with the utmost nice
ty. Some 700 pipes are used in one
OF the big organs and all these must
De carefully voiced" and attuned.
This alone calls fer a high degree of
skill and experiences. The pipes range
IN size from the tiny wood reeds a
few inches in length to the gigantic
metal pipes which make church
vibrate. The metal pipes are com
posed of composition metal of lead
and tin, which vsries with the tone
desired. A pipe containing a large
amount of lead gives a soft, flute
like sound while if tin predoninates
tone resembling a stringed instru-
ment is produced. After the organ
IS finally assembled, all these pipes
must be readjusted. About two
months are required to complete an
organ of this size. The entire organ
is constructed at the local factory
with the exception of the metal pipes
which are bought ready made and are
then adjusted.
The factory is looking forward to
rush year as they already flooded
with contracts which will take them
well into the. summer to complete.
The next organ is to be installed at
Ellsworth, Kansas, and is about the
size of the Milwaukee instrument. "a
big twelve-register, modern eonstruc-
ton organ will then be sent to Long
Prairie, Minnesota, and one Of the
same size will be erected at Lake
vile, MINI. Many other contracts are
IN view which makes it imperative to
enlarge the plant at once.