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Toledo, Cathedral, Gospel organ and Epistle organ
Pedro de Liborno Echeverría 1755/58 (Epistle organ) and José and Valentin Verdalonga 1797 (Gospel organ)
State of preservation: Epistle organ: several alterations during the 19th century; Gospel organ: minor later changes but compass enlarged at an unknown date.
Toledo cathedral received two choir organs after 1750: first the Epistle organ on the southern side of the Coro by Pedro de Liborno Echevarría, in a case by German López, with its remarkable inscription „non plus ultra“ („not further beyond“), quoting the motto of emperor Charles V (Carlos I of Spain) "plus ultra" but also a cant on the opposite organ above the southern entrance, the famous "El Emperador" built by Juan Gaytan in 1543.
At the northern side of the Coro the brothers José and Valentín Verdalongo built the Gospel organ, which, in comparison, reveals some modern elements of the time around 1800.