One manual organ with four ranks of pipes, 47 notes. 8' stopped wood, 4' stopped wood, 2' stopped wood, and 1' open metal pipes.

The rectangular oak case is on a stand. With molded cornice, surmounted by a carved acanthus-leaf scrolling. On either side is a carved, removable, panel with protruding cherub head. Fitted with two hinged doors, painted with two shields of armorial bearings: a black Maltese cross on a grey shield on the left, and the arms of the Kolner family on the right. The stand has a molded top, a deep fluted apron, and is supported on four square tapering legs with dies carved with the pendant acanthus leaves, the fronts with single flutings, molded bases and square, tapering feet. At the top of the case are two wedge bellows, operable either by pedal or by a second person at the left side of the case.

The facade is made upof the 1' open metal pipes, the lowest in the center, proceeding in whole tones in either direction. Although the bottom rail of the facade, just above the keyboard, is carved in relief "N. M. Ano MDCXXV," there is evidence to show that much of the organ dates from the 19th century; the wood bracketing and rails in the facade are recent additions.

The stop-action lies to the left of the keyboard, four iron levers operating the sliders. They are labeled, from top to bottom, "Gedact 16 fs – Gedact 8 fs – Gedact (sic) 4 fs – Otava 2 fs," contrary to their actual disposition.

Certain parts of the organ--the case (except the facade), the keyboard, the wind chest, the bellows, and certain bits of hardware--appear to date from the seventeenth century. Other parts--the pipes, the upper portion of the wind chest, and the facade--are more recent, probably added in the first half of the nineteenth century. Nearly all of the wood pipes have been re-voiced. The metal pipes are newer, possibly a 20th-century addition. Pasted on part of the wind chest visible through the removable left panel is an engravure of Nicholas Manderscheidt, a Nuremberg organ builder (1580-1662). This was probably added to give credence to the story that he was the builder, otherwise unprovable.

The 8' stopped wood rank is at the rear of the case, the upper 39 pipes at the extreme rear, with the lowest 8 pipes laid in front horizontally. The horizontal pipes lie with the longest on top, shortest on bottom. The lowest five are mitered in order to fit into the case. The pipes are nearly all papered on either side, but not on the front or rear. The two lowest pipes were at one time longer: marks are evident that the wood has been trimmed from C to D and D to D+. on the E pipe appears a scrap of paper with the date: "April 1850." The pipes are lettered in German tablature, with letters on the lower lip. The bodies of the pipes are lettered alphabetically through the first twenty-six, then numbered. Nearly all of the mouths have been re-voiced. The scaling halves at the 17th note, if the lowest pipe is accepted as C.

The 4' stopped wood rank lies in front of the 8'. it, like the 8', is papered on either side; nearly all are re-voiced. The two lowest pipes have been trimmed, as with the 8'. The scaling halves at the 19th semitone.

The 2' open wood rank is unpapered, though made by the same hand. Lead sheet flaps are used to tune the pipes. D-a are of one wood, a+-a+'' another. b'' and c''', now missing, have spaces for metal pipes. D and E were at one time C and D. The scaling of the pipes halves at the 17th semitone.

The 1' open metal pipes appear fairly new. The metal, spotted to indicate roughly 60 percent lead, is not heavily tarnished. The languids are heavily nicked. The two lowest pipes are marked C and D. The entire rank is numbered in red ink, and lettered in German tablature in black ink. The scaling halves at the 24th semitone.

The key-action is mechanical and direct, with very short trackers under each key leading to the chest and pallets. The keys are each on leather hinges. They are numbered 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, ...49, indicating the removal at some point, of the E and F keys. The sharps are pearwood, the naturals pine with black stain veneer. The chest is slider-action. Much of the underside is vellum, covering air channels: the sliders are all very near the front of the organ. A large part of the front page of the Munchener Zeitung of 1900 was used to repair the chest.

From the Chateau de Rethel (Ardennes) to the Karl Freund Collection, thence to the Belle Skinner Collection.