Castle Creek, Bellville
In 1981, Joseph T. Wells left the FBI to form Wells & Associates, a consulting group of criminologists dealing with fraud detection and deterrence. In 1988, he became Chairman of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, a 25.000-member professional organization headquartered in Austin, Texas. Mr. wells is featured frequently in national media, including the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes Magazine, ABC News'20/20, Nightline etc. In both 1998 and 1999, Mr. wells was named to Accounting Today magazine's annual list of the "Top 100 Most Influential People" in accounting.
During Summer 2000, "Castle Creek" the country house of Joseph T. Wells and his wife Judy, located on a 35 acre country-seat just outside the town of Bellville, Texas, was completed. It was their wish to install a small tracker organ in the music room and just at that time such an instrument, built in 1980 by Jan L. van den Heuvel - Orgelbouw bv, became available.Early September arrangements were made with the (first) owner, Mr. Han Vermeulen. Before the organ was shipped to Bellville in November 2000 the organ was throughout checked and the reserved rank was added.
The organ case is made of African mahogany, the woodcarvings, hand made from French-lime, as well as the mouth of the display pipes and name plates are gold plated with 23,5 Karat gold-leaf. The stop knobs are made from Black Ebony and the sheeks at both sides of the keyboard received inlay work of Ivory and Ebony.The pedal board was made of European oak.
In December 2000 the organ, which is the smallest organ ever built by Van den Heuvel, was installed and received its final voicing. Afterwards Judy Wells played the inaugural concert.
Bourdon 8'
Roerfluit 4'
Prestant 2' Bass/Treble
Quint 1 1/3' Basse
Quint 2 2/3' Treble
Tremulant
Pedal, C-d1
coupled to manual
Mechanical stop- and keyaction.
Instruments | Specification - Castle Creek, Bellville