Hong Sung Church/Korea


In 2008 the church-community of the Presbyterian Church in Hong Sung/Korea gets its new church-organ.
The church-construction-project of Hong Sung Church is the at present biggest church construction-project in Korea and receives highest attention in the whole country.

For us more than an honor and task, to build one of the best organs in Korea!

In the following, we show you pictures of the manufacturing of the organ in our workshop.

Here, it goes to the stop list:
Stop-list
View of the swell box. The swivelling swell doors are installed later in the front.
The first 5 stops of the swell box are installed.
Trainee Karl Heinz Hermann mounts the organ bank.
The mobile substructure is ready. Now organ builder Tristan Lebherz puts the console-case on the mobile substructure.
As the next the upper part and the keyboard are inserted in the console.
The add-on-windchest for the Chamade 8´ is ready. Now Organbuilder Andreas Reinbold works at the mobile console. In the foreground you can see the substructure.
Organ-builder Andreas Reinbold works flat out on the add-on windchest for the Chamade 8´. This pipe-toeboard is positioned horizontal in the front. In any hole you can see in the wooden-block sticks one pipe.
A good view in the middle of this picture: The hatch to enter inside the organ-case.
Here you can see the bare brickwork in Hong Sung. In the middle is placed the organ-gallery.
Organ Builder Tristan Lebherz:

he has to work out the Keyboard case and roller-board.
Wednesday, May 23th:

Master Organ Builder Heinz Jaeger checks the finished three Manual keyboards.

The naturals are made of narrow-grained pine, the overlay-sharps are made of ebony and the sharps are made of bone.
Tuesday, May 22th:

In this picture Organbuilder Tristan Lebherz have a look at the layout. He builds the movable console in ash.

Wednesday April 25th 2007:

Mr.Suh - a member of Hong Sung Church visited our workshop and assembly hall to inspect our work and what is just ready for shipment.

Here picture with Mr.Suh and the reed-pipes.

The wooden pipes are ready in our workshop.

Mr.Suh got an introduction from OBM Heinz Jaeger in voicing and tuning metal-pipes for Hong Sung Church - assisted by Master of Voicing: Hartmut Reiser.

Both will travel to Korea to make the voicing in HS-Church middle of February 2008.

Mr.Suh took lot of pictures from the ready pipes for HSC, Mr.Jaeger explained the different types of pipes and specialities we build.

Mr.Suh and Mr.Brommer on the groundfloor and in front of the back side of the organ in our assembly hall. The organ is quite big. The width is 8 meter and highest point: 10 meter.
Mr.Suh inside the big Swell-Box case. At this place the lot of special pipes will be situated.

The windchests are ready and open to show to Mr.Suh.

Here the windchest of Main Organ.

Details of the Organ Case - back side pieces.


The big wooden sideboards of the Organ Case.

Windchest of II. Manual in preperation.

Die Stöcke sind auf Laenge und Breite geschnitten. Im naechsten Arbeitsschritt werden die Durchgangslöcher zur Windlade fuer jede einzelne Pfeife gebohrt.

The windchest  - II. Manual - growe up.

The slider are ready to finish.
Master Organ Builder Heinz Jaeger and Master of Voicing Hartmut Reiser with the Metall Pipes of Hong Sung Church.

The wooden parts had been stored and are now in our workshop to be perpared for the more than 200.000 Details we need to build up this big pipe-organ.

First wooden parts are cut.
We start with first special organ parts.

Cuting the big wooden parts.
January 2nd. 2007: Master Carpeter

Juegern Lay starts to cut the original Cherry and Oak Wood.

Now we start to build the big windchest and all ......

The new Hong Sung Church shown by a painting.

The final meeting with construction office people

December 14th 2006 in Seoul:

Also 2nd from left: Master Organ Builder Mr. Ahn and right side: Jaeger & Brommer representative Mr. Joseph Ahn and assistant Brian.

The new church: 4 floors from underground ar ready. Next step: to build up the church.

All should be ready until October 2007.
The Organ-Modell before delivery to Korea.

Master Organ Builder Wolfgang Brommer and Master Organ Builder Uli Sekat with the new plans in 1:10 and 1: 20 for producing a modell. Left side the plan in 1:10 scale.

The very first piece of wood for the new pipeorgan for the HONG SUNG CHURCH -Seoul handled by our master for keyboards: Frieder Asch. More details parts will be produced during the next 3-4 month.
Nach vielen Fragen und Antworten und der reiflichen Entscheidung dass "Jaeger & Brommer" die neue Orgel in die Hong Sung Church bauen darf unterschreiben dann Pastor Lee und Herr Ahn am 8. Juli 2006 den Orgelbauvertag.
Orgelbaumeister Heinz Jaeger und Orgelbaumeister Wolfgang Brommer unteschreiben den Orgelbauvertrag am 17.Juli 2006.

Der unterschrieben Vertrag ging dann am 17. Juli 2006 per DHL zurück nach Korea in die Hong Sung Kirche.

Jaeger & Brommer
ist seit über 18 Jahren Kunde bei DHL.
Pastor Lee bei seinem Deutschland-Besuch. Nach dem Besuch von mehreren Orgelbauwerkstaetten in Deutschland und Inspektion von vielen Orgeln spielte er u.a. auch unsere Orgel in der St. Nikolaus-Kirche in Freiburg - Opfingen.

Pastor Lee beim Besuch in unserer Werkstatt bei der Vorstellung unseres Prospektentwurf und Disposition fuer seine neue Kirchenorgel.
Pastor Lee erkundigt sich bei Orgelbaumeister Heinz Jaeger genau ueber den Aufbau unserer Orgeln und unsere Qualitaeten.


Stop list:

HW I. Manual C- a’’’

1. Bourdon 16‘
2. Principal 8‘
3. Voce Humana 8’ c°
4. Gamba 8’
5. Gedackt 8‘
6. Oktave 4‘
7. Hohlflöte 4‘
8. Quinte 2 2/3’
9. Oktave 2‘
10. Mixtur 5f. 2‘
11. Trompete 8‘
12. Chamade 8’

SW II. Manual C-a’’’

13. Rohrflöte 8‘
14. Salicional 8‘
15. Voix Celeste 8‘
16. Prinzipal 4‘
17. Rohrflöte 4`
18. Narzard 2 2/3‘
19. Flöte 2‘
20. Terz 1 3/5‘
21. Plein jeux 3-4 fach
22. Oboe 8’
23. Trompete harmonique 8‘
24. Basson 16’

Tremulant

III. Manual

Coupler Manual

Pedal C-f’

25. Prinzipal 16‘
26. Subbass 16‘
27. Oktavbass 8‘
28. Gedacktbass 8’
29. Choralbass 4’
30. Bassfloete 4’
31. Posaune 16‘
32. Trompete 8’

2  Zymbelsterne
Coupler: II-I, I-P, II-P, II-I Sub, II-I Super, I-I Sub, I-I Super
Setter: 4000 fach

The organ stands on a freely hovering gallery specifically created for the organ. The mobile console is situated on the altar-level.

© 2007 Waldkircher Orgelbau - German Organ Company
Gewerbekanal 3
79183 Waldkirch-Germany
info@german-organ-company.com

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