Waldkirch Street and Fairground Organs - Their Construction, Makers and Products

Waldkircher Verlag, Germany, 1993. Good secondhand condition.

Waldkirch, a small town in Germany's Black Forest, is known to mechanical music enthusiasts world-wide for its once flourishing craft industry which produced hundreds of magnificent mechanical organs and orchestrions.

There has long been a demand amongst serious enthusiasts for a book about Waldkirch organs giving technical information detailing the disposition and musical characteristics. This need has been perfectly met by respected author Herbert Juttemann, who has a great understanding of mechanical musical instruments in general.

50 colour plates and several hundred informative diagrams and photographs accompany the easily understood text, outlining the different types of pipes, pneumatic actions and mechanisms found in products of the various Waldkirch factories.