Small Projects and Proposals

This chapter invites the reader into Scheibe's workshop, into the day-to-day work of an organ builder. Scheibe's work involved not just building and renovating large organs, but also regular maintenance and tuning, examinations of organs (some of them built by colleagues and competitors), submission of proposals to renovate or build new organs (some successful, some not), and undertaking small projects. Projects considered include the new organ for Gundorf (and its examination by Georg Friedrich Kaufmann of Merseburg), proposals made to Leutzsch, Gollma, Stötteritz, the Georgenhaus in Leipzig, and to the St. Jacob's Church in Köthen. In addition, Scheibe's regular maintenance of Leipzig's organs at St. Paul's, St. Thomas's, St. Nicholas's, St. John's, and at the New Church, is documented.