The only historical documentation that we have today is the one regarding the construction contract. We do not know how the work was finished nor how later interventions were carried out. The contract is very interesting because it shows many details about the instrument, the tender system and the awarding of the works.

It is clear that the organ suffered modifications after the contract, but none of these are documented.

Inside the pallet box, we can read part of an inscription:

“For the Honor of God and Mary Most Holy, Francisco de Hortega, Master Organ Builder for the King, built me in Marugán, in the year of our Lord 1747”

“The Curators of this Church being Mr Bernabé Jimeno and Mr Pedro Baion and from this town Mr Manuel Ignacio Jimeno, Gómez de Bonilla and Mr Feliciano Rodríguez”

Even though it is possible that the organ underwent more than one reform, as the modifications on the horizontal reeds and stop handles might suggest, it seems that the wind chest and the channel boards have not been dismantled nor modified since their installation in 1747.

The most obvious modification is the loss of the Dulzaina in the facade and the addition of the Trompeta Magna on the right hand, moving the 2nd Clarín to the right hand of the Dulzaina, and also the addition of a Violeta instead of the Dulzaina on the left hand.

These modifications are not documented, but our experience leads us to believe that Antonio Ruiz made an intervention at the end of the 18th century.

Apart from that, it seems that the organ has not undergone more reforms throughout its history.

All the pipe work seems to date from 1747, with the exception of the aforementioned horizontal reeds.

In 1980s the organ was started up by non-professionals; the effect of the intervention is hard to determine, but it did not modified the organ’s structure.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

*(1).- “El órgano en Valladolid y su provincia: catalogación y estudio” (“Organs in Valladolid and the province of Valladolid: cataloguing and study”
*(2).- Protocolo notarial: Protocolo Rueda Anuario Musical Esteban García Chico (Notarial protocol: Rueda Protocol Annual Musical Directory Esteban García Chico)