The organbuilder Traugott Wandke (1808–1870) left not only his tools but also a handwritten hymnal book, now at the library in Austin, written for the Bethlehem Lutheran Church down the road where is workshop and his largest instrument is still located. Wandke was born in 1808 in the town of Nickolschmiede in Silesia, today in Poland, and we assume he completed an apprenticeship as cabinet maker prior to his immigration in 1855, at the age of 47. We know very little of his life in Germany in contrast to his extensive notes of his life in Round Top. His detailed dairy during his trip from Hamburg to Galveston is a pleasure to read. He brought his wooden turning lathe (today at the museum in Round Top) with him and gave performances of his craftsmanship on the sail ship to the amusement of the crew and his fellow immigrants. Detailed descriptions of organbuilding and medical advise to the survival in Texas fallow in his notes. During the restoration of his instruments I was impressed from his accuracy of all his work. He hand-planed all wood to the perfect thickness in smallest fractions to built hundreds of organ pipes with a precision I only could do today with the help of machinery. It is clear to me his complex organs require an planing process with advanced knowledge of organbuilding. After reading his detailed measurements of the Eugenio Casperini Organ in the town of Görlitz, 80 kilometers from his home, I believe Wandke was very involved with pipe organs prior to his emigration and he must had training as an organbuilder rather an apprenticeship as a cabinet maker. He could have traveled often to Görlitz to tune the organs in town. He knew the world famous German Casperini family who builded organs for several generations. Eugenio Casparini had traveled to Italy to work as an organbuilder, was invited in to Vienna as “Organbuilder for the Emperor” and returned later to his workshop in Sorau only 30km from Wandkes home, to built 1706 his masterpiece the “Sonnenorgel” in Görlitz. Wandke took detailed measurements of this instrument. And not only measurements he had detailed description of every organ part including the characteristica of different organ stops. He came clearly with the intention of building organs to Texas. Although shortly after his arrival Wandke had to realize his ambitious preparations combining the finest Italien and German craftsmanship had little use in undeveloped Texas. To built his three instruments he scald down to almost two materials that their available to him but made the finest small organs simply from cedar wood and leather and one of them is at the Lutheran Church in Round Top.