Hand-pumped pipe organ: Hymn Now Thank We All Our God on a 1907 Vogelpohl & Spaeth Pipe Organ

Hymn “Now Thank We All Our God” played on Vogelpohl & Spaeth Opus 52, built in 1907 in New Ulm, Minnesota. Organist: Mrs. Rebecca Visser, Director of Music at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota. Bellows boy: Josh Sellner This organ was originally built for a rural Lutheran congregation near Brookings, South Dakota. It has been relocated several times in its lifetime, the most recent installation being the Church of the Japanese Martyrs in Leavenworth, Minnesota (rural Sleepy Eye). The installation was carried out by Josh Sellner in August of 2023, with assistance from members of the local Latin Mass congregation. The side panel of the organ has been removed to show the air reservoir bellows (with the bright white leather towards the center of the video frame) being hand-pumped, as would’ve been done when the organ was originally built in 1907, before the installation of electricity in the organ’s original home. The organist signals the pumper to begin pumping with the Bellows Signal knob at the beginning of the video. The organ is now also equipped with an electric blower as well.