Adlung, Jakob
(1699–1762)
JAKOB ADLUNGADLUNG, JAKOBJAKOB ADLUNG [* 1699-† 1762] In extraordinary detail, Jakob Adlung documented his masterful understanding of all facets of organ construction and design—from the arrangement of pipes within the case to how they should be tuned, from a description of the characteristics of individual registers to the dispositions of over eighty significant instruments. Left in manuscript upon his death, Musica mechanica organoedi was published in two handsome volumes in 1768. With equal…