Michael Kestner's Organ in Cluj-Napoca
The Reformed wooden church, which once stood outside the medieval castle’s walls on the plot behind the Reformed Church with Two Towers, first received an organ in 1771, donated by Mrs János Farkas. On December 9, 1771, the consistory celebrated and recorded Mrs János Farkas’s freely offered gift of an organ for the church outside the walls... (Minutes of the Consistory of the Reformed Church Parish of Cluj) In 1774, the parish signed a contract with organ builder Michael Kestner. In exchange for the old organ and 315 German forints, Kestner completed a mechanical, nine-stop, short-octave organ with a built-in console and a slider chest in 1775. The nine stops were: Principal 8’ Coppel 8’ Principal Octav 8’ Flauta minor 4’ Flauta amabile 4’ Quint 2 2/3’ Superoctav 2’ Sedecima 1’ Mixtur 2 ranks The organ was adjusted by Márton Konnert in 1808, and in 1839 Bálint Szentgyörgyi carried out major repairs, gluing the wind chest, repairing the action, cleaning and tuning the pipes. In 1851, th...
