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Three Kimball Pipe Organs in Missouri

by R. E. Coleberd
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Introduction

The Kimball Company of Chicago was one of the foremost pipe organ builders in America in the first three decades of the twentieth century.  Instruments of all sizes in churches, colleges, theaters, homes and municipal auditoriums across the country made the Kimball organ well-known to churchgoers and the music world of that era. The name lives on in epic instruments in St. John's Episcopal Church, Denver, and the Minneapolis Civic Auditorium, others lesser-known, and in the recollections of older generations. Ironically, very little has been written about the company and its instruments, apart from David Junchen's perceptive summary of the firm and its theater organ work.1 A systematic study of the tonal philosophy and practices of the firm, as well as design features and construction details of their instruments, is long overdue. No comprehensive history of the pipe organ and its builders in America in the twentieth century can be complete without a major study of Kimball.

George T. Michel, a forgotten figure in the pantheon of notable American tonal directors and voicers, was the heart and soul of the Kimball pipe organ. His superb voicing talents, which embraced the full spectrum from reeds to strings to a Diapason chorus, were complemented by the skills and experience of other factory personnel including superintendent Oscar J. Hagstrom, voicer Joseph J. Carruthers, pipemaker Frank A. Meyer, and the astute front-office businessmen Wallace Kimball, Walter Hardy, and the much-traveled Robert P. Elliot. Yet as Van Allen Bradley remarks, correctly, in his company history Music for the Millions: "It was Michel more than any other man who gave the Kimball pipe organ of the 20th Century its great reputation."2

Junchen was unsparing in his praise of Michel: "His reeds were constructed with a jeweler's precision. They had distinctive tone colors, stood rock solidly in tune and were perhaps more uniform note per note than any ever built. Michel's strings set the standard by which all others were judged. Their richness, timbre and incredible promptness of speech, even in the 32' octave, have never been surpassed."3

This article takes a close look at three instruments in two small liberal arts colleges in western Missouri--Park College in Parkville and Missouri Valley College in Marshall--as examples of Kimball's work in the 1930s, near the close of its glorious era in organbuilding. The 1930s were the crucial decade before WWII when changing tastes and preferences swept the pipe organ market. The King of Instruments began to break away from the romantic and orchestral paradigm of the 1920s and earlier and moved toward "old world" antecedents and the classic ensemble. How did Kimball, progressive throughout its history, articulate and implement these changes? The stoplists under discussion shed light on Kimball's approach to organbuilding in that watershed era. The recital programs dedicating these instruments are representative of organ recital fare during that period and in contrast to recent times.

The 1930s demand closer scrutiny. The pioneering work of Walter Holtkamp and G. Donald Harrison is well documented. What about other builders and their instruments? The majority were family-owned firms where change came slowly and was often viewed as a threat. Thus much of the industry fell behind in the emerging trends. These builders were reluctant to depart from stoplists that had worked so successfully a decade earlier. They moved gingerly into mixtures and mutations, while holding onto favorite stops of the previous era--solo reeds, for example. Likewise, there was a pronounced lag in voicing philosophy and technique. The distinctive character and blending quality of independent mutation ranks, which are tuned to pure‚--not tempered--intervals, was scarcely appreciated by voicers accustomed to wide-scale diapasons and other unison stops. What mutations existed were frequently extensions of foundation stops. Mixtures of the 1920s were largely confined to the narrow scale string-sounding Dolce Cornets. 

The following analysis is made possible by the vivid recollections of one elder statesman of the organbuilding fraternity, the brief remarks of another who has passed on, and the insights of several contemporary observers well-acquainted with Kimball instruments and the 1930s era.

Charles McManis, living and working in semi-retirement in Woodbury, Connecticut, helped install the 1938 Kimball at Park College, an inspiring early step in his long and distinguished career as an independent builder in Kansas City, Kansas. Charles has close family ties to Park College. His grandfather was one of the original seventeen students enrolled when classes began on May 12, 1875, in an old stone hotel downtown. His parents were both graduates of the school.4

Another prominent builder in the postwar era who observed Kimball and their work was Franklin Mitchell (1917-1998), tonal director of the Reuter Company from 1951 to 1993. As a sophomore at Missouri Valley College in 1935, sitting in the back of the chapel, Mitchell observed George Michel finish the new three-manual organ. This experience and the ensuing summer employment at the Kimball factory in Chicago, at the invitation of Michel, inspired Mitchell to become an organbuilder and significantly influenced his work. As Jack Sievert, formerly Mitchell's colleague at Reuter and now with the Schantz Company points out, certain aspects of Mitchell's early work at Reuter bore the unmistakable stamp of George Michel and Kimball.5 Mitchell's failing health and death on March 31, 1998 precluded additional detailed comments which would have added importantly to this analysis.

Park College

Located in northwest Missouri, in the town of Parkville on the Missouri River nine miles upstream from Kansas City, Park College was founded in 1875, the realization of a long-cherished dream of George S. Park whose name it bears. A Vermont native and veteran of the Texas War of Independence, Park was a successful land speculator and devoted churchman, whose name graced the village he founded in 1844. For two decades, Park pleaded with the Presbyterian Church to establish a college in what was then considered the frontier. His dream was made possible by Dr. John McAfee, a professor at Highland College in Kansas who came as the school's first president, providing the experience and leadership required to establish it. McAfee's vision for Park College was a work-study curriculum affording poor students the opportunity to obtain a college education and was symbolized in the new school's motto "Fides et Labor" (faith and labor).6

The Graham Tyler Memorial Chapel is one of the first buildings one sees when approaching the campus and forms an appropriate introduction to a historically church-related institution of higher learning. Standing majestically in front of a terraced green hillside, this modified Gothic edifice, with a cruciform floor plan, features an English hammer-beam ceiling in the nave and, above the altar in the chancel, an exquisitely detailed wood carving of the Last Supper by Alois Lang (see photos).7 Seating 700, the building was designed by Kansas City architects Greenbaum, Hardy & Schumacher, who were awarded a bronze medal by the Kansas City chapter of the American Institute of Architects for the design of the best institutional building in the area in 1931.8

The new chapel was made possible by an $80,000 bequest of Mary G. Tyler (total cost $135,000) in memory of her father, Graham Tyler, a Philadelphia merchant. It followed the "Old Stone Church" erected in 1852, and its successor McCormick Chapel, given by Mrs. Cyrus Hall McCormick of Chicago in memory of her husband, the farm machinery magnate and inventor of the McCormick reaper. These chapels housed only reed organs. Miss Tyler recommended the building be patterned after the Russell Sage Memorial Chapel in East Northfield, Massachusetts on the campus of the Northfield Mount Hermon School.9

In his quest for a suitable pipe organ for the new chapel, the president of Park, Dr. F. W. Hawley, wrote to his friend from student days at McCormick Seminary, Dr. Paul W. McClintock, then director of research in the Department of Building Fund Campaigns at the Presbyterian church headquarters in Philadelphia. Dr. Hawley requested advice and recommendations and McClintock was happy to oblige. Their correspondence offers a rare glimpse of the role of a consultant in an organ project, a role whose numbers are legion in the history of the organ business in America, and sheds light on the brutal, white-hot competition for work in the dark days of the Great Depression.10

McClintock began by strongly recommending that Hawley engage William H. Barnes as consultant for the project, which Hawley did. "You will find Barnes wonderfully helpful. He has a thorough knowledge of the organ, perhaps a better knowledge than any other living American and I know from my contacts with him that his advice is absolutely unbiased and can be thoroughly depended upon."11 In the meantime, Hawley wrote McClintock that he was "quite strongly inclined toward the Reuter Organ" because of the short distance (50 miles) from Parkville to Lawrence, Kansas. He mentioned that the founders of Reuter had trained at Casavant.12 McClintock quickly dismissed Hawley's concern over proximity to a nearby factory as a criterion for choosing a builder. He pointed out that builders had agents coast-to-coast and even in Laurel, Mississippi (where he had lived), a serviceman was never more than six hours away.13

Hawley asked whether McClintock was familiar with the Robert Morton Company of Van Nuys, California, a firm he had never heard of but one of the many firms sending in proposals once word got out that Park was buying an organ. The local representative was offering a $13,000 instrument, built for a theater in Oklahoma City but refused upon delivery, for $3,500. "I do not want to buy a cheap organ but if we can buy a good organ that will meet our needs at a very low cost we want to take advantage of all the saving we can," Hawley wrote. The representative also proposed a $15,000 new organ for $10,000 as an "introductory offer."14

McClintock continued by offering his opinion on builders whom he divided into two classes. In the first class he named: Austin, Casavant, Estey, Hook & Hastings, Kimball and Skinner. Their work can be "thoroughly depended upon," he said, adding that Skinner excels in reeds and Hook & Hastings in diapasons. In the second class he included: Hall, Kilgen, Midmer-Losh, Moller and Pilcher, builders whose work is "very good" but does not embrace the "same careful attention as to construction, mechanism, voicing and tonal balance." He faulted Reuter for lacking tonal balance and excessive octave coupling which he called duplexing. He wrote off Bennett whose instruments he had found unsatisfactory.15

President Hawley circulated the specification drawn up by Barnes, together with a cover letter, to twelve builders. Bids were received from Estey, Kilgen, Midmer-Losh, Moller, Pilcher, Reuter and Welte-Tripp.16 The Reuter sales manager, William C. Verney, was eager to obtain the contract and solicited support from friends whom he thought would be influential with Hawley. One was a prominent Kansas City lawyer, Thad B. Landon, who wrote Hawley: "I just want you to know that I had come in very close touch with these people . . . on some matters in the past few years and feel they are very good people with whom to work."17 Another was A. O. Thompson, well-known Kansas City lumber yard operator and trustee of the college, who while vacationing in Los Angeles sent a telegram to Hawley in care of Barnes: "Would appreciate your favoring Reuter organ provided price and quality are equal to other makers."18 In January, 1931, Hawley traveled to Chicago, to meet with Barnes and listen to several instruments. Based upon his own preference for the Kimball sound as well as Barnes' recommendation, he signed a contract with Kimball for a $15,000 organ. The terms were $5,000 upon delivery (and acceptance) and three annual installments of $3,333 each plus six percent interest.19 Kimball was represented in the negotiations by Herbert Hyde, well-known Chicago organist, composer and music impresario who joined Kimball in the Fall of 1930 after four years as western representative for Skinner.20

The Kimball pipe organ was given in memory of Mrs. Annette Young Herr of Mifflinsburg, Pennsylvania by her children. A twenty-three rank, three-manual instrument with four-rank echo division prepared for (see stoplist), it was designed by William Harrison Barnes, remembered today for his multi-edition and widely-circulated book, The Contemporary American Organ. Barnes presided at the console during commencement week, June 6-8, 1931. He played for the baccalaureate service and the chapel dedication program on Saturday, the organ dedication recital on Sunday evening, and commencement Monday morning. 21

The Barnes dedicatory recital (see program) featured traditional organ fare and the work of contemporary composers Joseph Bonnet, Marco Enrico Bossi, Joseph Clokey, Giuseppe Ferrata and Bernard Rogers.22 Appearing frequently in recital programs during this period, these composers are seldom heard in performances today. The Mendelssohn selection was from Elijah. Clokey's "Dripping Spring" was a character piece, so-called because the title describes the work. The Schubert number was a transcription.

A full-page biographical sketch of Barnes was featured in the Commencement Program. It began with his BA degree from Harvard and his organ study with Wallace Goodrich, dean of the New England Conservatory of Music, and with Clarence Dickinson in New York. His several church organist positions in the greater Chicago area were enumerated as were his offices in professional associations. He was also an associate editor of The American Organist. In recognition of his services to the college and his prominence in the organ world, Barnes was awarded an honorary doctorate (Mus.D) by Park College at this commencement.23

The 1931 Kimball organ specification (see stoplist) bore a strong resemblance to the previous era, and was in marked contrast to the two later Kimballs in this article. The Great manual contained a unit Diapason at 16', 8' and 4', a scheme which results in scaling discontinuity and octave overlap. Arguably, this sort of unification never works in building a true Diapason chorus. The Grave Mixture, a tepid stop comprising a Twelfth and Fifteenth with no breaks, was no Mixture at all. The wide-scale Clarabella was borrowed from the Pedal.

The Swell division was built around a unit Bourdon of 97 pipes. Also conspicuous in this tonal palette was a tapered flute and Celeste, played as one stop, and a Waldhorn, a robust reed voice which played at both 16' and 8' pitches. The Choir manual contained four independent ranks with the balance borrowed from the Great. The Celeste was matched with the Dulciana, not the Gamba, standard practice for that period. The nine-stop Pedal division embraced only two unified independent ranks with others, chiefly 16' voices, borrowed from the manual divisions. Again, this was typical of this period. The prepared for Echo organ stoplist was nearly identical to those of other builders in this era.

The organist and choirmaster at Park from 1921 to 1953 was Dr. Charles L. Griffith, 1887-1969 (see photo). A graduate of William Penn College in Iowa, where he taught music for 17 years before coming to Park, Griffith earned an M.A. degree from Grinnell College, also in Iowa, and a Ph.D. in music from the University of Iowa. He was awarded honorary degrees by Park and William Penn. After 21 years at Park, Griffith retired and returned to William Penn, as chairman of the Fine Arts Department. Griffith Hall, the Fine Arts Building at William Penn, is named in his honor.24

On the evening of December 25, 1937, scarcely six years after its completion, the beautiful Graham Tyler Chapel caught fire and burned to the ground. The blaze, believed to have started in the basement, spread rapidly and soon the roof fell in.25 The Kimball organ was destroyed as were objects d'art in the chancel. Construction of an identical replacement edifice began immediately. The Lang carving replaced a painting of The Lord's Supper above the altar in the chancel. A new and larger Kimball organ, with casework and display pipes to be duplicates of the first instrument, was ordered. Kimball was represented in the negotiations by N.W. Hillstrom who was quick to praise the new stoplist proposed by Barnes. "It is a very fine specification and would indeed make a glorious organ for the Chapel," he wrote, calling attention to the changes in each division including a "cohesive and vibrantly rich Diapason chorus" on the Great. He was particularly effusive about the 32' Sub Bourdon on the Pedal. "It is a charming stop against the softest of manual combinations and one that in my opinion should be included in every organ of note."26

The rebuilt chapel and the new three-manual, thirty-six rank Kimball organ (the five-rank Antiphonal division was prepared for) were dedicated during Fine Arts Week, October 23-30, 1938 in a program series. The inaugural recital Monday evening was again played by William H. Barnes, now Dr. Barnes, who also presented a lecture entitled "The Organ" Tuesday morning. His 1938 recital was more standard fare (see program), concentrating largely on works closely identified with the organ but also including Hugh McAmis' "Dreams," a work frequently played during that era.27

The recitalist Tuesday evening (see program) was the legendary Edna Scotten Billings, for decades the grande dame of Kansas City organists. Mrs. Billings chose a demanding program, including the very difficult "Variations de Concert" by Joseph Bonnet. Wednesday evening's program featured several instrumentalists, along with college organist Charles Griffith and his wife Blanche Noble Griffith, soprano. The series closed Thursday evening with an organ recital (see program) by Joseph A. Burns, a well-known local keyboard artist. He selected three compositions by Enrico Bossi, and "Le Vol du Bourdon" which is known today as "The Flight of the Bumble Bee."28

The 1938 Kimball (see stoplist) differs radically from the 1931 specification, reflecting the maturing classical outlook of Barnes and Michel. The Great division features a unit Gemshorn, which works very well in pitch, color and blending quality, and an authentic principal chorus, carefully voiced and capped with a Mixture IV made of tin. The Hohl Flote, a dark, broad scale voice which fills out the ensemble, is a wooden rank with arched upper lips and is full length in the 8' octave. It contrasts sharply with the Rohrflote on the Swell. The Great Trumpet, reflecting the orchestral paradigm, is Tromba sounding, confined and fundamental, designed to dominate the chorus on full organ. The Great Mixture begins on the 12th, the lower pitch typical for the period when organists were accustomed to using the super-coupler on full organ. Mixture composition and scaling of principal ranks was based upon this assumption. Each pipe of the mixture is winded on a separate valve.

The foundation for the Swell is the unit Rohrflute with a compass of 16' to 2', by now a trademark of George Michel. The Swell Trumpet, in contrast to the Tromba voiced Great Trumpet, is a brighter, more harmonically developed, open sound. The Salicional has a slight edge, and the Flauto Dolce, reminiscent of the Skinner voice of this name, is not as assertive as even a Dulciana but loud enough to be heard. The Corno d'Amour, a capped trumpet nearly identical to a Flugelhorn, serves in place of the customary Oboe. The Swell design also featured the Contra Fagotto as the 16' reed voice in place of the Waldhorn in the 1931 stoplist.

The Choir manual, boasting exquisite strings, Viola and Dulciana, and a notably fine clarinet, is voiced as a mild principal ensemble, a tad soft in an otherwise carefully balanced instrument. The 8' Concert Flute is made of wood harmonic pipes, and the 4' Lieblich Flote is a capped metal rank of singular beauty. The Pedal division, as in 1931, counts only two ranks with unification, plus many borrows from manual ranks. The five lowest pipes of the 32' Sub Bourdon, GGGG to BBBB, are enormous in scale, much larger than the following pipes in the 16' octave. The first seven notes in the 32' octave are resultants. The five-rank Antiphonal organ, in contrast to the projected 1931 stoplist (never installed), was added the following year and contained a Diapason and and Octave. The Park College Stylus, apparently referring to these stops commented: "Two new stops in connection with the echo organ will combine the features of both the echo organ and the antiphonal organ."29

Seated at the console demonstrating the instrument to the writer, Canon John Schaefer, organist and choirmaster of Grace and Holy Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in downtown Kansas City who is staff organist at Park, remarks that this Kimball organ has "real character" and an enduring quality that has survived the fads and fashions of the postwar era to remain a most attractive instrument. Carefully planned and executed, it is a tribute to the artistry of George Michel. Schaefer remarks that if there is a weakness in this instrument it is in the mutations, derived from the Dulciana in the Choir and Flute in the Swell, which "don't do much."30  In keeping with the period, the entire instrument was under expression when installed although subsequently the shades of the Great and Pedal divisions were removed.

The primary function of the Graham Tyler Chapel today, no longer used for scheduled chapel services by the college, is as one of the most popular wedding venues in the metropolitan area. Park College is now an independent school with no denominational affiliation. The epic Kimball organ, a noteworthy instrument by a neglected builder in a bygone era, was renovated in 1978 by Charles McManis who praised it in a letter to the college president as a noteworthy example of the "Clarified Ensemble" in the contemporary epoch of American organbuilding.31 When funds permit, it is scheduled for a full restoration by the Quimby Pipe Organ Company.

Missouri Valley College

Founded in 1888 by Cumberland Presbyterians, Missouri Valley College is located in Marshall, Missouri, a town seventy miles east of Kansas City, settled in 1839 and named for Chief Justice John Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court. Marshall is the county seat of Saline County, so named because of numerous salt springs in the area. Stewart Chapel, built in 1906 (see photo), was given by prominent St. Louis lawyer Alphonso C. Stewart, L.L.D., a trustee and lifelong benefactor of the school, in honor of his father, General A. P. Stewart, Confederate States of America.32 The chapel was remodeled in 1935, a gift of Mrs. Olive Depp Richey, widow of an early trustee of the college. The new Kimball organ was designated the James Edward Richey Memorial Organ.33

The organist and keyboard professor at Missouri Valley was Claude Leslie Fichthorn, 1885-1972 (see photo). A native of Reading, Pennsylvania, where he studied piano, organ and voice in his youth, Fichthorn served local churches as organist and choirmaster while yet a teenager. Then, even without a college degree, he taught at Ursinus College in Pennsylvania before coming to Missouri Valley, in 1912, to teach piano. The following year he studied voice in Paris with Louis Dubigny, then returned to Missouri Valley where he completed a B.A. degree in 1916. In 1931, Fichthorn obtained an M.A. from Columbia University. He also held the A.A.G.O. certification. From 1920 to 1935, he was organist and choirmaster of the Westport Presbyterian Church in Kansas City and afterward, for twenty years, held the same position at the Methodist Church in Marshall.34

As the resident impresario of Marshall, Fichthorn, now dean of the school of music at Missouri Valley, was a man of broad musical interests and boundless energy. He orchestrated what must have been one of the most extensive musical programs for a town of 8500 people to be found anywhere. In addition to directing the keyboard, choral and instrumental music offerings of the college and serving as organist and choirmaster at the Methodist Church organ on Sunday morning, he organized and directed the Marshall Symphony, an ambitious project for a rural community but one not entirely unknown in the state.35 Fichthorn was awarded an honorary Mus.D. from Missouri Valley in 1948, in grateful recognition of his forty years of devoted service to the school. And in 1962, in reply to a citation for his half century of service to the school he said: "I have had fun and enjoyed my work, and that is why it has been so wonderful."36

Dean Fichthorn played the opening recital on the twenty-six rank three-manual Kimball organ on Thursday evening, December 5, 1935 (see program), preceding rededication of the chapel and dedication of the organ on Sunday afternoon. The Marshall Democrat-News described the forthcoming recital as designed to exhibit the tonal resources of the new organ. Bach's D-Minor Toccata and Fugue was said to be his work most often heard on radio since it was judged as more dramatic than the composer's other works which were deemed more classical. The choice of Widor's Toccata, selected specifically to exhibit the tonal colors of the organ, reflected the belief that as the premier organ composer of the late romantic period, he, unlike other composers, perceived the instrument's possibilities as an interpretive medium.37 Barbara Owen comments that his program was "quite ambitious" in that playing the complete Widor Symphony No. 2 was unusual, adding that organists and musicians in general weren't favorably disposed toward Stravinsky and the Firebird Suite in 1935. However, since Fichthorn was also an orchestra conductor, he most likely had a good feeling for orchestral works.38

In his program notes, Fichthorn asserted that Bach's fugues were the epitome of organ composition and the D-minor Toccata and Fugue was the most popular. The eight symphonies of Widor were said to be "unequaled in breadth of concept and richness of imagination" and the second symphony "more lyrical" than the others. The chimes of a church in Canada were the inspiration for Russell's "The Bells of 'St. Anne de Beaupre." Fichthorn described his composition "In the Forest" as: "An afternoon in the forest, heard are the peaceful brook, the call of birds, the threatening storm and a return to peaceful meditation." In that time as well as today, it was not unusual for organists to play their own works in a recital. Delius' "On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring" was portrayed as an impressionistic study by the recently deceased and the "most original" composer Great Britain has produced. Stravinsky's Firebird Suite was hailed as this composer's most popular work for orchestra.39

The choice of a three-manual design for an organ of just twenty-six ranks (see stoplist) was, no doubt, deemed appropriate for the teaching and performance demands of a college. With a budget limit of these resources, the voices were distributed over the manuals in a very interesting way. Professor Mary Ellen Sutton, organ teacher at Missouri Valley, 1968-73, described the unification and borrowing as "very skillful."40 The specifications for the instrument were written by Fichthorn and revised by William H. Barnes, with voicing and tonal finishing by George T. Michel. Program notes called attention to the thirty combination pistons and toe studs on the console incorporating the new Kimball Remote Control System. Also, a new non-rigid sound-absorbing material in the console made it as silent as possible. The entire instrument was under expression in two chambers.41

On the Great division, the Gemshorn lent itself well to unification, augmented the principal chorus, and added color and pitch. The 4' Flute, borrowed from the Swell unit Rohrflute, blended well with the 8' Harmonic Flute, while the Dulciana provided a soft stop on the division. The Diapasons I and II were a throwback to a previous era, indicating that the designers had not totally abandoned that paradigm. The Mixture began on the 15th, because there was no independent 2' stop on the division.

The Swell division, with the unit Rohrflute from 16' to 2' pitches, so typical of Michel, was supplemented by strings, string principals and a full reed chorus plus the ubiquitous Vox Humana, another vestige of previous times. Barbara Owen observes that on this Kimball, the Choir was nearly as large as the Swell, which was unusual for a period when the Swell was customarily the largest division of the organ. She notes that the absence of an Oboe among the reeds was also unusual. The 16' Waldhorn, frequently used by Skinner, would impart a "growl" at this pitch but was comparatively lacking in blending and solo quality and thus would disappear entirely from stoplists in the postwar era.42

The Choir began with an 8' Diapason borrowed from the Second Diapason on the Great. Therefore, it was most likely voiced as a string principal, as the independent voice on this division would customarily have been. The Melodia was unified to 4' and 2' and, in effect, would most likely have been a Wald Flute at 4' since the scales for the Melodia and Wald Flute were often the same. The reeds on the Choir, French Horn, Cor Anglais and Clarinet, were solo voices from the symphonic era.

Recalling the instrument from the perspective of the postwar era and his practices as tonal director of the Reuter Company, Franklin Mitchell said the diapasons would be considered a tad "hooty" today, while the trumpet was big in scale and would pass today as a tuba. The Clarinet was very "conventional" and sonorous. The Salicional string was thin and keen. The Waldhorn was a mild 16' reed with not much character. Mitchell commented that George Michel later veered toward diapason type strings, such as a small Geigen, which were not nearly as authentic as an orthodox string voice.43 Sadly, this notable instrument was lost when the chapel burned on February 28, 1973.44

Summary

The 1930s, marking the close of one epoch and the beginning of another, were a major turning point in the history of the pipe organ in America. The Kimball Company was an industry icon before WWII and a builder deserving of recognition today. The three instruments discussed above were milestones in the history of Kimball and representative of the progress of this landmark era in terms of several criteria. These include the emergence of an authentic principal chorus capped with a mixture, the place of chorus reeds in an ensemble and the role of mutations--although failure to embrace them as independent voices. Most important, they reflect Michel and Kimball's vision and implementation of the fundamental concepts of pitch, color, contrast and blend in the design and voicing of the inimitable King of Instruments.        n

                                   

R. E. Coleberd writes frequently on the history and economics of pipe organ building.

 

For research input and critical comments on earlier drafts of this paper the author gratefully acknowledges : Tom Atkin, Wilson Barry, E.A. Boadway, Christopher Bono, Carolyn Elwess, Laura Gayle Green, Alan Laufman, Charles McManis, Albert Neutel, Barbara Owen, Michael Quimby, Pam Reeder, Lois Regestein, John Schaefer, Katharine Fichthorn Schanz, Jack Sievert, and Mary Ellen Sutton.

 

Bibliographical material on Park College is found in Fishburn Archives, McAfee Memorial Library, and on Missouri Valley College in Murrell Memorial Library. The author expresses his appreciation to Carolyn McHenry Elwess of Park and Pam Reeder of Missouri Valley for their assistance.

Notes

                  1.              Junchen, David L., Encyclopedia of the American Theater Organ, Pasadena, California: Showcase Publications, Vol. 1, 1985, pp. 206-209.

                  2.              Bradley, Van Allen, Music for the Millions: The Kimball Piano and Organ Story, Chicago, Illinois: Henry Regnery Company, 1957, p. 191.

                  3.              Junchen, op cit, p. 209.

                  4.              Charles McManis, letter to the author, October 8, 1998.

                  5.              Jack Sievert, letter to the author, September 30, 1998.

                  6.             A Chronicle of Memories: Park College--1875-1990, Copyright by the Alumni Association of Park College, Parkville, Missouri, 1990, pp. 17-21. Also C. M. Elwess, "Park College: Past, Present and Future," Alumni Directory, 1995, p. V.


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Alois Lang (1871-1955), was a native of Oberammerg

 

PARK COLLEGE

PARKVILLE, MISSOURI

 

DEDICATION

ANNETTE MATILDA HERR ORGAN

PROGRAM

June 7, 1931

William Harrison Barnes

 

1. (a) Caprice Heroique                Bonnet

    (b) Reverie  Bonnet

    (c) Andante (Grand Piece Symphonique)   Franck

2. (a) Scripture and Prayer        Pres. Frederick W. Hawley

    (b) He, Watching Over Israel             Mendelssohn

3. (a) The Legend of the Mountain       Karg-Elert

    (b) Scherzo Rogers

    (c) Dripping Spring Joseph Clokey

4. Remarks concerning the Tonal Structure of the Organ         Barnes

5. (a) Nocturne                 Farrata

    (b) Beside the Sea   Schubert

    (c) Toccata (Gothic Suite)   Boellmann

 

Benediction

 

PARK COLLEGE

PARKVILLE,  MISSOURI

 

DEDICATORY RECITAL

William H. Barnes, Mus.D. (Park)

Monday evening, October 24, 1938

at eight o'clock

 

Grand Choeur Dialogue               Gigout

Sketch in D Flat               Schumann

St. Anne's Fugue             J.S. Bach

Chorale Prelude "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"               J.S. Bach

Prelude and Fugue in B Flat     J.S. Bach

Chorale Prelude "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming"     Johannes Brahms

Ronde Francais                 Boellmann

The Mirrored Moon      Karg-Elert

Pastorale              Cesar Franck

Chorale in E Major        Cesar Franck

Dreams                 McAmis

Theme And Variations                  Widor

 

Graham Tyler Memorial Chapel, Park College, Parkville, Missouri

W.W. Kimball, 1931

 

Great Organ (enclosed)

                  16'          Open Diapason (unit) 85 pipes

                  8'             First Diapason 61 pipes

                  8'             Second Diapason (from 16' Diap)                                            61 notes

                  8'             Clarabella (ext Pedal Bourdon) 17                                            pipes

                  8'             Concert Flute 61 pipes

                  4'             Octave (from 16' Diap) 61 notes

                  4'             Flute Harmonique 61 pipes

                  II              Grave Mixture 122 pipes

                  8'             Trumpet 61 pipes

                                    Chimes, 20 tubes

Swell Organ

                  16'          Bourdon (unit) 97 pipes

                  8'             Diapason 73 pipes

                  8'             Chimney Flute (from Bourdon) 73                                           notes

                  8'             Salicional 73 pipes

                  8'             Vox Celeste 73 pipes

                  8'             Spitz Flute Celeste 134 pipes

                  4'             Octave 73 pipes

                  4'             Flute (from Bourdon) 73 notes

                  22/3'      Nazard (from Bourdon) 73 notes

                  2'             Piccolo (from Bourdon) 73 notes

                  16'          Wald Horn 85 pipes

                  8'             Horn (from Wald Horn)

                  4'             Clarion (from Wald Horn)

                                    Harp (prepared for) 49 bars

Choir Organ

                  8'             Diapason (from Gt Second Diap)                                             61 notes

                  8'             Concert Flute (from Great) 61                                                                       notes

                  8'             Gamba 73 pipes

                  8'             Dulciana 73 pipes

                  8'             Unda Maris 61 pipes

                  4'             Harmonique Flute (from Great) 61                        notes

                  4'             Dulcet (Dulciana) 61 notes

                  8'             Clarinet 73 pipes

                  8'             Harp (from Swell)

Echo Organ (prepared for)

                  8'             Gedeckt 61 pipes

                  8'             Viol Aetheria 61 pipes

                  8'             Vox Angelica 61 pipes

                  4'             Flute (ext) 12 pipes

                  8'             Vox Humana 61 pipes

                                    Chimes

Pedal Organ

                  32'          Resultant 32 notes

                  16'          Diapason 44 pipes

                  16'          Second Diapason (from Great) 32                                            notes

                  16'          Bourdon 44 pipes

                  16'          Second Bourdon (from Swell) 32                                                               notes

                  8'             Octave (from Diapason) 32 notes

                  8'             Flute (from Bourdon) 32 notes

                  8'             Flauto Dolce (from Swell Bour-                                                                    don) 32 notes

                  16'          Wald Horn (from Swell) 32 notes

 

Source: The Diapason, March, 1931, page 2.

 

Graham Tyler Memorial Chapel, Park College, Parkville, Missouri

W.W. Kimball, 1938

 

Great Organ

                  16'          Contra Gemshorn (ext.) 12 pipes

                  8'             First Diapason 61 pipes

                  8'             Second Diapason 61 pipes

                  8'             Hohl Flote 61 pipes

                  8'             Gemshorn 61 pipes

                  4'             Octave 61 pipes

                  4'             Gemshorn (ext.) 12 pipes

                  4'             Flute Harmonique 61 pipes

                  IV            Fourniture 244 pipes

                  8'             Trumpet 61 pipes

                                    Chimes (Deagan "D" Kimball spe-                                           cial, piano hammer action) 25                                                                 tubular bells

                                    Tremolo

Swell Organ

                  16'          Lieblich Gedeckt (ext.) 12 pipes

                  8'             Geigen Diapason 73 pipes

                  8'             Rohrflote 73 pipes

                  8'             Salicional 73 pipes

                  8'             Voix Celeste 73 pipes

                  8'             Flauto Dolce 73 pipes

                  8'             Flute Celeste (T.C.) 61 pipes

                  4'             Octave Geigen 73 pipes

                  4'             Flute d'Amour (ext.) 12 pipes

                  22/3'      Nazard (ext.) 61 notes

                  2'             Flautino (ext.) 61 notes

                  13/5'      Tierce (prepared for)

                  IV            Plein Jeu 244 pipes

                  16'          Contra Fagotto 73 pipes

                  8'             Trumpet 73 pipes

                  8'             Corno d'Amour 73 pipes

                  8'             Vox Humana 61 pipes

                  4'             Clarion 73 pipes              

                  8'             Harp (prepared for)

                  4'             Celesta (prepared for)

                                    Tremolo

Choir Organ

                  16'          Contra Viola (ext.) 12 pipes

                  8'             Viola 73 pipes

                  8'             Viola Celeste (T.C.) 61 pipes

                  8'             Concert Flute 73 pipes

                  8'             Dulciana 73 pipes

                  8'             Unda Maris (T.C.) 61 pipes

                  4'             Lieblich Flote 73 pipes

                  4'             Viola (ext.) 12 pipes

                  4'             Dulcet (ext.) 12 pipes

                  22/3'      Dolce Twelfth (Dulciana) 61 notes

                  2'             Dolce Fifteenth (Dulciana) 61                                                                        notes

                  8'             Clarinet 73 pipes

                                    Chimes (Great)

                  8'             Harp (prepared for)

                  4'             Celesta (prepared for)

                                    Tremolo

Antiphonal Organ

Manual

                  8'             Diapason 61 pipes

                  8'             Melodia 61 pipes

                  8'             Viiole d'Amour 61 pipes

                  8'             Vox Angelica 49 pipes

                  4'             Octave 61 pipes

                                    Tremolo

Pedal Organ (Installed 1939)

                  32'          Sub Bourdon GGGG-BBBB* 5                                                                  pipes

                  16'          Open Diapason 44 pipes

                  16'          Bourdon 56 pipes

                  16'          Contra Viola (Choir) 32 notes

                  16'          Lieblich Gedeckt (Swell) 32 notes

                  8'             Octave (ext. Open Diapason) 32                                                                  notes

                  8'             Flute (ext. Bourdon) 32 notes

                  8'             Gemshorn (Great) 32 notes

                  8'             Stillgedeckt (Swell) 32 notes

                  4'             Flute (ext. Bourdon) 32 notes

                  16'          Contra Fagotto (Swell) 32 notes

                                    Chimes (Great), 8'

* First 7 notes Resultant

Pedal Antiphonal

                  16'          Lieblich Bourdon (ext. Melodia) 12                       pipes

 

Source: The Diapason, September 1, 1936, pp. 1-2.

 

PARK COLLEGE

PARKVILLE, MISSOURI

 

EDNA SCOTTEN BILLINGS

Organist

Tuesday evening, October  25, 1938

at eight o'clock

 

The Program

 

I

First Concerto  Bach

Allegro

Grave

Presto

Choral Prelude, "My Inmost Heart Doth Yearn"           Bach

Fugue in G Minor           Bach

 

II

Piece Heroique                  Franck

Saluto Angelico from "Cathedral Windows"   Karg-Elert

Romance             Bonnet

Lamento               Bonnet

Variations De Concert Bonnet

 

PARK COLLEGE

PARKVILLE, MISSOURI

 

ORGAN RECITAL

 

Joseph A. Burns, A.B., M.Mus., F.A.G.O.

Thursday evening, October 27, 1938

at eight o'clock

 

The Program

 

I

Fantasie And Fugue in G Minor              Bach

Ave Maria           Bossi

Siciliana, Stile Antico    Bossi

Scherzo in G Minor      Bossi

 

II

Clair De Lune  Karg-Elert

Chorale Inprovisation, "Jerusalem, Thou City Built On High"                Karg-Elert

Le Voldu Bourdon         Rimsky-Korsakoff

Andante Cantabile          Widor

Toccata in F      Widor

 

Stewart Chapel, Missouri Valley College, Marshall, Missouri

W.W. Kimball, 1935

 

Great Organ

                  16'          Contra Gemshorn (ext.) 12 pipes

                  8'             Diapason I 73 pipes

                  8'             Diapason II        73 pipes

                  8'             Harmonic Flute 73 pipes

                  8'             Dulciana (Choir) 61 notes

                  4'             Octave 73 pipes

                  3'             Flute (Swell) 61 notes

                  III            Mixture (12, 15, 19) 183 pipes

                  8'             Trumpet  73 pipes

                                    Chimes

                                    Harp

                                    Celesta

                                    Tremolo

Swell Organ

                  16'          Lieblich Gedeckt (ext.) 12 pipes

                  8'             Geigen Principal 73 pipes

                  6'             Rohrflote 73 pipes

                  8'             Flute Dolce 73 pipes

                  8'             Flute Celeste 73 pipes

                  8'             Salicional 73 pipes

                  8'             Vox Celeste 73 pipes

                  4'             Octave Geigen 73 pipes

                  4'             Flute d'Amour (ext.) 12 pipes

                  22/3'      Nazard (ext.) 61 notes

                  2               Flageolet (ext.) 61 notes

                  16'          Waldhorn 73 pipes

                  8'             Trompette 73 pipes

                  8'             Vox Humana 61 pipes

                  4'             Clarion 73 pipes

                                    Harp

Choir Organ

                  8'             Diapason (Great II) 61 notes

                  8'             Melodia 73 pipes

                  8'             Dulciana 73 pipes

                  8'             Unda Maris 73 pipes

                  4'             Flute (ext. Melodia) 12 pipes

                  4'             Dulcet (ext. Dul.) 12 pipes

                  22/3'      Dolce Twelfth (ext.) 61 notes

                  2'             Piccolo (ext. Melodia) 61 notes

                  2'             Dolce Fifteenth (ext.) 61 notes

                  13/5'      Dolce Tierce (ext.) 4 pipes

                  8'             French Horn 73 pipes

                  8'             Cor Anglais 73 pipes

                  8'             Clarinet 73 pipes

                                    Harp

                                    Celesta

                                    Tremolo

Pedal Organ

                  32'          Acoustic Bass 32 notes

                  16'          Open  Diapason 32 pipes

                  16'          Contra Gemshorn (Gt.) 32 notes

                  16'          Bourdon 32 pipes

                  16'          Lieblich Gedeckt (Sw.) 16 pipes

                  8'             Octave (ext. O.D.) 12 pipes

                  8'             Gemshorn (Gt.) 32 notes

                  8'             Flute Ouverte 32 notes

                  8'             Stillgedeckt 32 notes

                  4'             Super Octave 12 pipes

                  16'          Trombone (ext. Gt.) 12 pipes

                  8               Trumpet (Great) 32 notes

                                    Chimes

 

Source: The Diapason, January, 1936, pp. 1-2.

 

STEWART COLLEGE

MISSOURI VALLEY COLLEGE

MARSHALLL, MISSOURI

 

Dedicatory Recital

James Edwin Richey Memorial Organ

Thursday evening, December 5, 1935

Dean Claude Leslie Fichthorn, recitalist

 

Toccata and Fugue in D Minor                Bach

Symphony Number 2  Widor

Praeludium Circulaire

Pastorale

Andante

Salve Regina

Adagio

Finale

Marche Champetre        Boex

Largo, New  World Symphony               Dvorak

The Forest          Fichthorn

On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring               Delius

Firebird Suite    Stravinsky

Berceuse

Finale

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Quimby Pipe Organs, Inc.,

Warrensburg, Missouri

SkyRose Chapel, Rose Hills
Memorial Park, Whittier, California

Opus 46

 

SkyRose Chapel, in the Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier,
California, is located on a hill overlooking Los Angeles and the San Gabriel
and Sycamore Valleys. SkyRose Chapel is situated within beautifully landscaped
gardens that also do duty as a cemetery--SkyRose Chapel is the largest funeral
chapel in the world. Renowned architects Fay Jones and Maurice Jennings designed
SkyRose Chapel to be built of oak, Oregon redwood, bouquet canyon stone,
Douglas fir, and glass in a contemporary A-frame style that is at home in the
hills which the afternoon sun turns a vibrant rose color. SkyRose Chapel has
become popular as an attractive venue for weddings as well as for funerals.

The installation of a pipe organ in SkyRose Chapel had
always been the dream of Dennis Poulsen, Chairman of the Board of Rose Hills
Memorial Park. This dream was researched and brought to fruition by Mr. Poulsen
and Bruce Lazenby, Vice President of Engineering of Rose Hills Memorial Park.

The Rose Hills Foundation selected Quimby Pipe Organs, Inc.,
to build the pipe organ for the strikingly lovely SkyRose Chapel. The Quimby
pipe organ, Opus 46, has 65 ranks together with harp and chimes spread over
four manuals and pedal. The distinctly American design is eclectic in
conception and enables the instrument to perform a wide range of service and
organ literature. Messrs. Poulsen and Lazenby requested Michael Quimby, Tonal
Director, to design a tonal specification that would handle the diverse musical
demands required for funeral services, weddings, and recitals.

The instrument contains an unusually high proportion of
celeste ranks, and also a very high proportion of color reeds. The reeds in the
Solo division include several historic Skinner and Aeolian-Skinner ranks--the
Tuba Mirabilis (1924), French Horn (1946), English Horn (1946) and Corno di
Bassetto (1946). These ranks are included in the pipe organ on their original
windchest and reservoir. Also noteworthy are the 1924 Deagan "Class
A" Chimes and the restored 1929 Skinner Harp, both on their original
restored electro-pneumatic actions.

The electric blowers winding the organ amount to a total of
eleven and one-half horsepower, supplying wind at pressures ranging from
4" for the Choir division to 15" for the Tuba Mirabilis. There are
fourteen reservoirs and four schwimmers. The main chests, built by Quimby Pipe
Organs, Inc., are slider windchests built to the original Blackinton design
fitted with electro-pneumatic pallets. The Swell, Choir and Solo divisions have
68-note chests, providing additional topnotes for use with the octave couplers.
Electro-pneumatic unit chests are used for the offsets and extended ranks.

Quimby Pipe Organs' Opus 46 is located in an elevated
gallery near the rear of SkyRose Chapel. The visual presentation of the pipe
organ is of oak casework containing thirty-eight zinc façade pipes with
gold-colored mouths drawn from the Pedal 32' Principal and Great 16' Violone
ranks that are placed on platforms of escalating heights above the floor of the
gallery as well as nine oak pipes positioned along the side of the case. The
longest façade pipe, approximately 26' in length, is low G of the 32' Principal. The wood pipes along the side of the case are part of the Pedal 16' Bourdon rank. The Pedal 32' Posaune is full length, and is located behind the exposed wood pipes.

Quimby Pipe Organs' woodworkers constructed the case and
console in their workshop. Quimby Pipe Organs' designer and woodworkers
designed the oak organ case and console in consultation with Fay Jones and
Maurice Jennings in order to ensure an appearance in harmony with the
architecture of the Chapel. Harris Precision Products, Inc., of Whittier,
California, manufactured the console components and shipped them across the
country to Warrensburg where Quimby's woodworkers installed them in the
console. The console was then shipped back with the organ to Whittier! The
instrument is controlled by a multiplex relay with MIDI, including full
playback capability, and a combination action with 99 memory levels.
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There are eight pistons to each
division and eighteen general pistons, together with three ensemble pistons,
three programmable Crescendo settings, and numerous reversibles.

Members of Quimby Pipe Organs, Inc., who made significant
contributions to the construction of the SkyRose instrument included Doug
Christie, Chris Emerson, Charles Ford, Johanna Harrington, Eric Johnson, Kevin
Kissinger, Brad McGuffey, Michael Miller, Gary Olden, Michael Quimby, Wayne
Shirk, Stan Sparrowhawk, Elizabeth Viscusi, and Randy Watkins.

Dr. Frederick Hohman presented the pipe organ to the public
in the dedicatory recital of the SkyRose organ on Saturday, September 20th,
1997.

--Quimby Pipe Organs, Inc.

GREAT (unenclosed)

                  16'
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Violone
(1-14 façade)

                  8'
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Diapason
(1-7 from Ped Principal)

                  8'
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Principal

                  8'
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Violoncello
(ext)

                  8'
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Harmonic
Flute (1-12 from 8' Bdn)

                  8'
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Bourdon

                  4'
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Octave

                  4'
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Koppel
Flute

                  22⁄3'
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Quint

                  2'
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Super
Octave

                  11⁄3'
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Mixture IV

                  16'
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Bombarde
(ext)

                  8'
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Tuba
Mirabilis (Solo)

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Trompette
Harmonique

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Trumpet

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Cromorne
(Choir)

                  4'
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Clarion
Harmonique

                                    Tremolo

                                    Chimes
(Solo)

                  8'
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Harp
(Solo)

                                    Tower
Chimes (prepared for)

                                    MIDI
on Great

SWELL (enclosed)

                  16'
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Gedeckt

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Gedeckt
(ext)

                  8'
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Viola

                  8'
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Viola
Celeste

                  8'
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Salicional

                  8'
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Voix
Celeste (GG)

                  4'
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Principal

                  4'
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Nachthorn

                  4'
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Viola
(ext)

                  4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Viola
Celeste (ext)

                  22⁄3'
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Rohr Nasat

                  2'
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Octave

                  2'
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Flageolet

                  13⁄5'
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Tierce

                  2'
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Plein
Jeu IV (2' rank from Octave)

                  16'
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Hautbois

                  8'
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Trompette

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Hautbois
(ext)

                  8'
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Vox
Humana

                  8'
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Vox
Mystique (Vox Humana, box closed)

                  4'
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Clarion
(ext)

                                    Tremolo

                                    Chimes
(Solo)

                                    MIDI
on Swell

CHOIR (enclosed)

                  16'
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Silver
Flute (1-12 digital)

                  8'
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Flauto
Mirabilis (Solo)

                  8'
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Gamba
(Solo)

                  8'
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Gamba
Celeste (Solo)

                  8'
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Rohr
Flute

                  8'
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Gemshorn

                  8'
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Melodia
(1-12 from Rohr Flute)

                  8'
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Silver
Flute (ext)

                  8'
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Silver
Flute Celeste (TC)

                  4'
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Principal

                  4'
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Orchestral
Flute (Solo)

                  4'
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Spitz
Flute

                  4'
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Silver
Flute (ext)

                  22⁄3'
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Nazard

                  2'
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Octave

                  2'
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Block
Flute

                  13⁄5'
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Tierce

                  1'
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Mixture
III

                  16'
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Cromorne

                  8'
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Trompette
Harmonique (Great)

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Cromorne
(ext)

                  4'
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Clarion
Harmonique (Great)

                  8'
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Tuba
Mirabilis (Solo)

                                    Tremolo

                                    Chimes
(Solo)

                  8'
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Harp
(Solo)

                  4'
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Celesta
(Solo)

                                    MIDI
on Choir

SOLO (enclosed)

                  16'
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Contra
Gamba (1-12 digital)

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Flauto
Mirabilis

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Gamba
(ext)

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Gamba
Celeste

                  4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Orchestral
Flute

                  4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Gambette
(ext)

                  8'
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English
Horn

                  8'
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French
Horn

                  8'
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Corno
di Bassetto

                  8'
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Tuba
Mirabilis

                  4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Clarion
Tuba (ext)

                                    Tremolo

                  8'
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Harp

                  4'
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Celesta
(ext)

                                    Tower
Chimes (prepared for)

                                    Chimes
(20 tubes)

                                    MIDI
on Solo

PEDAL (unenclosed)

                  32'
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Sub
Principal (1-7 digital, 8-31 façade)

                  32'
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Contra
Bourdon (1-12 digital)

                  16'
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Principal
(ext)

                  16'
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Violone
(Great)

                  16'
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Bourdon
(ext)

                  16'
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Gamba
(Solo)

                  16'
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Gedeckt
(Swell)

                  16'
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Silver
Flute (Choir)

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Octave
(ext)

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Violoncello
(Great)

                  8'
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Viola
Celeste II (Swell)

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Bourdon
(ext)

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Gedeckt
(Swell)

                  4'
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Choral
Bass

                  4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Bourdon
(ext)

                  22⁄3'
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Mixture IV

                  32'
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Contra
Posaune (full length, ext Great Trumpet)

                  32'
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Contra
Basson (1-12 digital, ext Swell Hautbois)

                  16'
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Posaune
(ext Great Trumpet)

                  16'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>         
Bombarde
(Great)

                  16'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>         
Hautbois
(Swell)

                  16'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>         
Cromorne
(Choir)

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Tuba
Mirabilis (Solo)

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Trumpet
(Great)

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Trompette
Harmonique (Great)

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Hautbois
(Swell)

                  4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Clarion
(ext Great Trumpet)

                  4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Hautbois
(Swell)

                  4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Cromorne
(Choir)

                                    Chimes
(Solo)

                                    MIDI
on Pedal

Lively-Fulcher Organbuilders, Alexandria, Virginia

St. Olaf Catholic Church,
Minneapolis, Minnesota

 

In 1997, Fr. John Forliti, Pastor of St. Olaf Church,
appointed Dr. Merritt Nequette and a parish committee to lead an organ project
at the church. The committee enlisted the services of Jonathan Biggers as organ
consultant. After a thorough study, Lively-Fulcher Organbuilders of Alexandria,
Virginia was chosen to build the new instrument which was installed and
completed in July, 2001.

The organ was inaugurated in a series of concerts in 2002
beginning with a service of blessing by Archbishop Harry J. Flynn, Archbishop
of St. Paul and Minneapolis, and organ recital performed by Dr. Lynn Trapp,
director of worship and music, organist, at St. Olaf Church, on February 9,
2002.  A hymn text by Delores
Dufner, OSB was commissioned for the occasion.

The series of inaugural concerts featured a recital and
masterclass by Swiss organist, Guy Bovet; a program of organ and contemporary
music with Twin Cities artists; Pipedreams Live hosted by Michael Barone of
Minnesota Public Radio and performers of the Liturgical Organists Consortium;
field days for elementary students to learn about the king of instruments; and
an organ and orchestra concert with Jonathan Biggers, organist, and the Kenwood
Chamber Orchestra, orchestra in residence at St. Olaf Church, conducted by Ken
Freed. This concert included the premiere of a commissioned work for organ and
orchestra composed by Richard Proulx.

The instrument has 61 stops and 67 ranks (49 independent
registers) playable over five divisions, Grand Orgue, Récit Expressif,
Positif Expressif, Bombarde and Pédale. The manual and pedal key actions
make use of electric slider windchests and the stop action is electric, complete
with state of the art combination action, 256 levels of memory and a sequencer.
The wind supply is regulated by a traditional bellows system linked to the wind
chests by wooden wind lines. The console is built in a low profile, curved jamb
configuration to enhance the organist's ability to follow the liturgy and
conduct the choir. The console has natural keys covered in bone and sharp keys
of solid ebony. The internal layout of the divisions within the organ case
places the Positif Expressif centrally in the lower middle of the case and the
Grand Orgue above that with the Récit Expressif behind the Grand Orgue.
The Bombarde reeds are located in the Positif box and the Pédale
division is divided on either side of the manuals and behind the 16-foot pedal towers
in the case. Wood pipes were made in the organbuilders' workshop and metal
pipes were made to their specifications in Germany.

The casework, constructed of African mahogany, takes its
inspiration from the contemporary architecture of the room and has simple
Scandinavian design elements yet a firm traditional layout. The façade
pipes are made of 72% tin and include pipes from the Grand Orgue Montre 16',
Montre 8' and Pédale Montre 8'. The organ is completely housed within
its own freestanding casework and because of the deep gallery around three
sides of the room is positioned at the front center of the church. A
Cymbelstern stop is provided on the instrument and the church's tower bells can
be played from the Récit keyboard.

The design of the pipe shades for the instrument is tied to
the rich traditions associated with St. Olaf. They are made of basswood with
patterns of dragons, eagles and serpents which are found in the Book of Kells.
These designs are slightly earlier than King Olaf's time, but they are strong
Scandinavian symbols from the period. The cross piercing the crown is based on
an 8th-century piece made for St. Rupert. The crown motif was specifically
chosen to represent St. Olaf and the crosses and crowns are covered with
24-carat gold leaf.

The tonal inspiration for the instrument is firmly based in
19th-century France but is designed and voiced with a broad literature base in
mind. The Tutti is robust to support large choirs, orchestra, and the singing
of a capacity crowd of worshipers. The organ has a wide variety of soft colors
as well. The broad foundation tone of the 8-foot stops and thick-walled
expressiveness of the Récit and Positif boxes ensure the accompanimental
versatility necessary for the performance of choral and solo literature. The
warm yet clear broadly scaled principal chorus work, blended with the mutations
and reed colors associated with Clicquot and Cavaillé-Coll, make for a
versatile medium for the main body of the organ literature. The voicing and
blending of individual stops coupled with the color requirements of French,
German and English literature allow the convincing performance of a wide range
of literature. This instrument is not meant as a copy of any one style nor is
it intended to be a collection of styles trying to do everything, but rather is
intended to be a modern instrument of the 21st century speaking with its own
voice.

--Lynn Trapp

 

GRAND ORGUE

                  16'
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Montre

                  8'
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Montre

                  8'
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Flûte
à cheminée

                  8'
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Flûte
harmonique

                  8'
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Violoncelle

                  4'
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Prestant

                  4'
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Flûte
ouverte

                  22⁄3'
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Quinte

                  2'
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Doublette

                  2'
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Fourniture
V

                  8'
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Trompette

                  4'
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Clairon

                                    Tremulant

                                    Octaves
graves

                                    Récit
sur G.O.

                                    Positif
sur G.O.

                                    Bombarde
sur G.O.

POSITIF EXPRESSIF

                  8'
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Montre

                  8'
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Bourdon

                  8'
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Flûte
douce

                  8'
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Flûte
celeste

                  4'
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Prestant

                  4'
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Flûte
conique

                  22⁄3'
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Nazard

                  2'
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Doublette

                  2'
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Quarte
de nazard

                  13⁄5'
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Tierce

                  11⁄3'
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Larigot

                  1'
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Fourniture
IV

                  8'
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Trompette

                  8'
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Cromorne

                                    Tremulant

                                    Octaves
graves

                                    Récit
sur Positif

                                    Bombarde
sur Positif

                                    Positif
unison off

RÉCIT EXPRESSIF

                  16'
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Bourdon

                  8'
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Diapason

                  8'
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Viole
de gambe

                  8'
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Voix
céleste

                  8'
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Cor
de nuit

                  4'
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Prestant

                  4'
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Flûte
octaviante

                  2'
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Octavin

                  2'
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Plein
Jeu IV

                  22⁄3'
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Cornet II

                  16'
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Basson

                  8'
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Trompette
harmonique

                  8'
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Hautbois

                  8'
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Voix
humaine

                  4'
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Clairon
harmonique

                                    Tremulant

                                    Octaves
graves

BOMBARDE (floating)

                  16'
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Tuba
magna (ext)

                  8'
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Tuba
mirabilis

                  4'
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Cor
harmonique (ext)

                  8'
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Cornet
V (tg)

PÉDALE

                  32'
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Contre
soubasse (electronic)

                  16'
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Grosse
flûte

                  16'
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Montre
(G.O.)

                  16'
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Soubasse

                  16'
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Bourdon
(Récit)

                  8'
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Montre

                  8'
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Flûte
(ext)

                  8'
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Bourdon
(ext)

                  4'
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Prestant
(ext)

                  4'
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Flûte
ouverte (ext)

                  22⁄3'
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Fourniture IV

                  32'
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Contre
bombarde (ext)

                  16'
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Bombarde

                  16'
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Basson
(Récit)

                  8'
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Trompette

                  4'
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Clairon
(ext)

                                    Tirasse
Bombarde

                                    Tirasse
G.O.

                                    Tirasse
Positif

                                    Tirasse
Récit

 

G.O./Positif manual transfer

Chimes sur G.O.

Tower Bells sur Récit

Cymbelstern

Pedal & Manual pistons coupled

Sequencer

 

Weston Harris and Thomas J. McDonough, Organ Crafters of
Los Angeles
, have completed a
three-manual, 38-rank organ at St. Augustine By-the-Sea Episcopal Church, Santa
Monica, California.  The organ
incorporates elements from the church's previous organ built in 1967 by Abbott
and Sieker Organ Builders as well as the historic Möller/Estey organ at
Bridges Hall of Music, Pomona College (recently replaced by Fisk Opus 117).
Other pipework was donated from the private collection of Mr. Joseph Horning, a
prominent Los Angeles organist and organ consultant who died in 2000.

The church is located at the popular Third Street Promenade
at Santa Monica Beach Pier. The organ enjoys a high gallery placement in an
extraordinary acoustical setting. Given this exceptional location, the new
organ's tonal style is based largely on the 1948 Aeolian-Skinner organ of the
Salt Lake City Tabernacle, where Mr. Harris studied organ performance and
apprenticed in organbuilding. The voices are gentle, and choruses finely
layered.

The previous organ (see photo) was installed in 1967 as a
temporary instrument for the new church following the arson burning of the
church's historic 1867 building. The new organ case forms the Positiv Organ
featuring pipes from the Bridges Hall of Music (front tower pipes) and wood
Holzgedeckt pipes. The flute pipes were obtained from a burnt-out church in
nearby Venice, California. They were barely rescued--being quickly pulled from
their windchest just as the wrecking ball was knocking through the chamber
walls. The fire scarring on the pipes provides an extraordinary antique patina
for the new organ case design.

--Weston Harris

 

GREAT (enclosed)

                  8'
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Diapason

                  8'
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Bourdon

                  8'
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Augustine
Flute

                  8'
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Flute
Celeste

                  4'
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Octave

                  4'
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Forest
Flute

                  22⁄3'
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Twelfth

                  2'
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Fifteenth

                                    Mixture
IV

                                    Cymbale
III

                  8'
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Cromorne

                  8'
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Trumpet

                  4'
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Clarion*

                                    Tremulant

                                    Gt/Gt
16-4

SWELL (enclosed)

                  8'
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Geigen
Principal

                  8'
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Rohr
Flute

                  8'
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Viola

                  8'
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Viola
Celeste (TG)

                  4'
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Principal

                  4'
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Flute
d'Amour

                  2'
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Octavin

                  11⁄3'
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Mixture III

                  16'
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Bassoon
(1-12 extension)*

                  8'
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Trompette

                  8'
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Oboe

                  4'
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Clarion

                                    Tremulant

                                    Sw/Sw
16-UO-4

POSITIV (unenclosed)

                  8'
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Principal

                  8'
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Holzgedeckt

                  4'
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Principal*

                  4'
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Gedeckt*

                  2'
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Principal*

                  8'
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Oboe
(Sw)

                  8'
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Mounted
Cornet IV (TG)

                                    Pos/Pos

                                    Pos/Gt

                                    Tower
Bells (8 Whitehall bells)

STATE TRUMPET (unenclosed)

                  16'
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State
Trumpet*

                  8'
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State
Trumpet

                  4'
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State
Trumpet*

                                    Trumpet
to Gt

                                    Trumpet
to Sw

                                    Trumpet
to Pos

PEDAL (enclosed in Great)

                  32'
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Contra
Bourdon*

                  32'
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Dolce
Gedeckt*

                  16'
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Principal

                  16'
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Bourdon

                  16'
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Lieblich
Gedeckt (1-12 ext)*

                  8'
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Diapason

                  8'
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Bourdon*

                  8'
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Flauto
Dolce (Sw)

                  4'
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Choral
Bass*

                  4'
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Flute*

                  32'
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Contra
Posaune*

                  16'
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Posaune
(1-12 extension Gt Trumpet)

                  16'
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Bassoon
(Sw)

                  8'
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Posaune
(Gt)

                  8'
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State
Trumpet*

                  4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Clairon
(Gt)

 

Full interdivisional couplers

*indicates unification

W. W. Kimball Op. 7231 Restoration, St. John’s Cathedral, Denver

Michael Friesen

Michael Friesen, of Denver, Colorado, is an organ historian who specializes in the history of organbuilding in America in the 18th and 19th centuries. He was President of the Organ Historical Society from 2003 to 2007.

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St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, Denver, Colorado, has announced that Spencer Organ Company, Inc. of Waltham, Massachusetts will restore the cathedral’s historic 5,949-pipe organ built by W. W. Kimball of Chicago. The four-manual, 96-rank Kimball organ, Op. 7231 of the firm, was dedicated on May 18, 1938, and was the last major instrument constructed before Kimball ceased organ-building operations in 1942 after the outbreak of World War II.
Founded in 1857, Kimball was a major manufacturer and supplier of musical instruments, primarily pianos and reed organs. Pipe organ manufacture began in 1891. Altogether, the company built and installed 7,326 organs throughout the United States and abroad. Most of the firm’s large instruments have been replaced, neglected, or substantially rebuilt. The Denver Kimball is now prized because of its completely original condition (not a pipe has been changed), preserving a rich English Cathedral aesthetic popular between the wars.
Although the instrument has been well maintained during its 71 years, it has developed the mechanical problems that come to all pipe organs with age and wear through heavy use. To preserve the instrument and keep it in optimal condition, the cathedral has committed to a comprehensive restoration process. Much of the organ was removed in June 2009, not only for restoration, but also to allow repairs and improvements to the organ’s chamber (built in a part of the cathedral intended as a temporary brick structure that has since become permanent). The organ restoration will include replacement of leather components, repair and renewal of mechanisms, and a thorough cleaning and re-regulation of all pipes.
The Spencer Organ Company, Inc., founded in 1995 by Joseph Rotella, specializes in the restoration of electro-pneumatic pipe organs. The Spencer firm, with eleven employees, has been entrusted with the restoration and maintenance of numerous Skinner, Aeolian-Skinner, and Kimball organs. The Denver project is a two-year program of staged work, beginning with the June removal and scheduled for completion in fall 2011.
The Kimball restoration is part of an effort at St. John’s to improve several aspects of the building in commemoration of its 150th anniversary in 2010–11, which includes the 100th anniversary of the cathedral building itself. (The parish was founded in 1860; the current cathedral building was dedicated in 1911.) Fund-raising for those projects and anniversary programs is underway. The cathedral is considering the commission of new organs for the rear gallery and St. Martin’s Chapel, details of which will be announced later. Throughout this process, St. John’s will continue its extensive music program without interruption.
St. John’s has purchased an instrument built in 1869 by the Boston, Massachusetts firm of E. & G. G. Hook, its Op. 476, for use as a temporary instrument while the 1938 Kimball organ undergoes restoration. The Hook was formerly in the First Methodist Church of Lawrence, Massachusetts, its original home. The congregation currently using that building did not need the Hook for their worship and offered it for sale through the Organ Clearing House.
The Hook is a two-manual, 17-stop, tracker-action instrument, contained in a free-standing walnut case with Victorian-stencilled façade pipes. Co-restorers are Richard C. Hamar of Norwich, Connecticut and Susan Tattershall of Denver, with additional materials and/or labor furnished by Norman Lane and Rick Morel of Denver, Rubin Frels of Victoria, Texas, Barbara Owen of Newburyport, Massachusetts, and Michael Quimby of Warrensburg, Missouri. In addition, over 1,400 hours have been contributed to the project by many parish volunteers and non-parishioner friends, from youth to adult, who have helped with various tasks, ranging from making new trackers, cleaning all parts of the organ, sanding the old varnish off the case, and re-stencilling the decorative components.
The restoration project follows the Organ Historical Society’s Guidelines for Conservation and Restoration for pipe organs. The pedal action, which was converted to tubular-pneumatic action in 1911 by the Hutchings Organ Company of Waltham, Massachusetts, has been returned to mechanical action in Hook style. Subsequent tonal alterations had included substituting a 22⁄3′ mutation stop and a 2′ flute for the 8′ Keraulophon and 4′ Violina ranks in the Swell, respectively, and a 4′ Flute d’Amour displaced the 16′ Bourdon on the Great, which was moved to a jump slide. The Keraulophon pipes were found in the organ, and have been repaired and restored to their original place; the jump slide and the Flute d’Amour were removed, with the Bourdon being returned to its original location, which required a redesign of the toeboard. The 2′ principal rank will remain in the organ for the time being until suitable replacement Violina pipes are found. The case has been given a new traditional shellac finish, and the façade pipes are being restored to their original color scheme. Thus the original musical aesthetic, mechanical functioning, and appearance of the Hook is being restored to the greatest extent possible.
Coincidentally, St. John’s had previous relationships with the Hook firm, purchasing two organs from them in succession: first, a small organ in 1875, which was used in its original church building in downtown Denver, and then a second, large three-manual organ in 1881 for the first cathedral located at 20th and Welton Streets, which burned in 1903.
The Hook organ has been placed on the floor of the nave in the back of the cathedral while repairs and refurbishing of elements of the cathedral chancel are undertaken. St. John’s began offering a recital series on the Hook in January 2010. Further concert dates will be announced. For additional information, contact the Cathedral Music Office at 303/577-7717. 

St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral
Denver, Colorado
W. W. Kimball Company
Chicago, Illinois
Op. 7231, 1938

4 manuals, 96 speaking stops, 96 ranks, 5,949 pipes

Great (61 notes, Manual II, unenclosed, except as noted *)
16′ Double Diapason
16′ Quintaton*
8′ First Diapason
8′ Second Diapason
8′ Third Diapason*
8′ Harmonic Flute*
8′ Bourdon*
8’ Gemshorn*
4′ First Octave
4′ Second Octave*
4′ Flute Harmonique*
22⁄3′ Octave Quint
2′ Super Octave
IV Fourniture
III–V Full Mixture
16′ Contra Tromba*
8′ Tromba*
4′ Clarion*
Tremolo (for enclosed labial stops)
Chimes (Solo)

Swell (61 notes, enclosed, Manual III)
16′ Contra Salicional
16′ Echo Lieblich
8′ Geigen Principal
8′ Hohl Flöte
8′ Salicional
8′ Voix Celeste
8′ Rohrflöte
8′ Flauto Dolce
8′ Flute Celeste
8′ Aeoline
8′ Aeoline Celeste
4′ Octave Geigen
4′ Traverse Flute
22⁄3′ Twelfth
2′ Fifteenth
III Cornet
V Plein Jeu
16′ Waldhorn
8′ Trumpet
8′ Cornopean
8′ Oboe
8′ Vox Humana
4′ Clarion
Tremolo
Chimes (Solo)
Harp (Choir) 8′
Celesta (Choir) 4′

Choir (61 notes, enclosed, Manual I)
16′ Contra Dulciana
8′ Diapason
8′ Concert Flute
8′ Viola
8′ Dulciana
8′ Unda Maris
4′ Prestant
4′ Lieblich Flöte
4′ Viola
22⁄3′ Nazard
2′ Piccolo
13⁄5′ Tierce
16′ Bassoon
8′ Trompette
8′ Clarinet
8′ Orchestral Oboe
Tremolo
Harp (8′, 61 bars)
Celesta (4′, from Harp)
Chimes (Solo)

Solo (61 notes, enclosed, Manual IV)
16′ Contra Gamba
8′ Flauto Mirabilis
8′ Gamba
8′ Gamba Celeste
4′ Orchestral Flute
4′ Gambette
2′ Piccolo Harmonique
8′ Tuba Mirabilis
8′ French Horn
8′ Cor Anglais
4′ Clarion
Tremolo
Chimes (25 tubular bells)
Harp (Choir) 8′
Celesta (Choir) 4′

Pedal (32 notes, unenclosed [except for enclosed borrows])
32′ Open Diapason (ext.)
16′ Open Diapason
16′ Principal
16′ Double Diapason (Great)
16′ Geigen
16′ Violone
16′ Bourdon
16′ Contra Gamba (Solo)
16′ Contra Salicional (Swell)
16′ Echo Lieblich (Swell)
16′ Contra Dulciana (Choir)
8′ First Octave (ext. Op. Diap.)
8′ Second Octave
8′ Geigen (ext.)
8′ Cello (ext. Violone)
8′ Flute (ext. Bourdon)
8′ Stillgedeckt (Swell 16′ Echo Lieblich)
8′ Dulciana (Choir 16′ Contra Dulciana)
4′ Super Octave
4′ Flute (ext. Bourdon)
IV Mixture
32′ Contra Waldhorn (ext.)
16′ Trombone
16′ Waldhorn
16′ Tromba (Great)
16′ Bassoon (Choir)
8′ Trumpet
4′ Clarion
Chimes (Solo)

Antiphonal (Manual IV; prepared for, 21 blank drawknobs)

Antiphonal Pedal (prepared for, 7 blank drawknobs)

Summary
Division Stops Ranks Pipes
Great 18 25 1,489
Swell 23 29 1,973
Choir 16 16 1,132
Solo 11 11 791
Pedal 28 15+7 ext. 564

Total 96 96 5,949

Couplers and Accessories
# = indicator light provided

Couplers (by tabs on coupler rail):
Great Sub 16′
Great Super 4′
Swell Sub 16′
Swell Unison Off
Swell Super 4′
Choir Sub 16′
Choir Unison Off
Choir Super 4′
Solo Sub 16′
Solo Unison Off
Solo Super 4′
Great to Pedal 8′
Great to Pedal 4′
Swell to Pedal 8′
Swell to Pedal 4′
Choir to Pedal 8′
Choir to Pedal 4′
Solo to Pedal 8′
Solo to Pedal 4′
2 blanks [intended for Antiphonal to Pedal 8′, 4′]
Swell to Great 16′
Swell to Great 8′
Swell to Great 4′
Choir to Great 16′
Choir to Great 8′
Choir to Great 4′
Solo to Great 16′
Solo to Great 8′
Solo to Great 4′
Choir to Swell 8′
Solo to Swell 8′
Swell to Choir 16′
Swell to Choir 8′
Swell to Choir 4′
Solo to Choir 8′
Great to Solo 16′
Great to Solo 8′
Great to Solo 4′
5 blanks [intended for Antiphonal division coupling to be determined]

Reversibles (by thumb piston and toe stud):
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal
Choir to Pedal
Solo to Pedal
Antiphonal to Pedal
Swell to Great
Choir to Great
Solo to Great
#Mezzo Sforzando (settable)
#Sforzando (settable)
#32′ stops off
#16′ stops off

Combinations (by thumb piston):
General 1–10
Great 1–8
Swell 1–8
Choir 1–8
Solo 1–8
Antiphonal 1–6
General Set
Cancel

Combinations (by toe stud):
General 1–10
Pedal 1–8
Pedal to Combinations On/Off (all manual divisions)
Pedal to Combinations 1st/2nd Touch
Pedal Movements:
balanced Enclosed Great expression pedal
balanced Choir expression pedal
balanced Swell & Master expression pedal
balanced Solo expression pedal
#balanced Crescendo pedal
#Chimes Soft (hitchdown)
#Chimes Sustain (hitchdown)
#Harp Sustain (hitchdown)

Accessories:
Expression Pedal Adjuster
#Signal Light
#Current Light

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St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral
Denver, Colorado
E. & G. G. Hook
Boston, Massachusetts
Op. 476, 1869

2 manuals, 17 speaking stops, 15 ranks, 772 pipes

Great (58 notes, CC–a3)
16′ Bourdon [TC]
8′ Open Diapason
8′ Stopped Diapason Bass
8′ Melodia [TC]
8′ Gamba [TC]
4′ Octave
2′ Fifteenth
II Mixture [11⁄3′ + 1′]

Swell (58 notes, CC–a3,
enclosed)
8′ Stopped Diapason Bass
8′ Stopped Diapason Treble [TC]
8′ Keraulophon [TC]
4′ Flute Harmonique
2′ Principal [originally 4′ Violina]
8′ Bassoon
8′ Oboe [TC]

Pedal (27 notes, CC–d1)
16′ Sub Bass
8′ Flöte

Couplers and Mechanicals
Swell to Great
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal
Swell Tremulant
Bellows Signal
Four Composition Pedals:
Great Forte
Great Piano
Swell Forte
Swell Piano

New Organs

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John-Paul Buzard Pipe Organ Builders, Champaign, IL, has built a new organ for First Congregational Church, Crystal Lake, IL: opus 16, 18 stops, 24 ranks. Although the original church was built in 1867, this is the congregation's first pipe organ. The first instrument was a reed organ which served faithfully for nearly 100 years. The reed organ's handsome case was made into the church's pulpit, still in use today. A Hammond electronic instrument followed, which the new pipe organ replaces.

The church expanded its crowded chancel to accommodate the
large music program and the new organ, installed front and center as a backdrop
for the worship space. The project incorporated the organ's design into the
greatly expanded chancel, harmonizing with the stately American colonial
architecture of the building.

The tonal design is a contemporary adaptation of American
organbuilding styles prevalent when the church was originally built. One notes
a large percentage of wood pipes as in earlier times. There are more open and
harmonic stops than one might typically see in new "eclectic"
instruments. The disposition of the flute choruses, large-scaled Great Open
Diapason, and plaintive English Oboe are also reminiscent of many 19th-century
organs. The inclusion of mixtures on both manuals, a full battery of Swell
reeds, employment of contemporary voicing techniques and classic scaling
concepts provides a contemporary sound for leading hymn singing, accompanying
choral and instrumental ensembles, and rendering a wide variety of solo
literature.

The Great division is located in the left side of the organ
case, with the Swell enclosed on the right side. The Pedal is divided between
both the Great and Swell. Facade pipes are from the Pedal 8' Octave and Great
8' Open Diapason, made from lightly polished English tin. Members of the Buzard
staff include: Phillip Campbell, Brian K. Davis, Stephen Downes, Charles Eames,
Michael Fisher, Charles R. Leach, Stuart Martin, Jay Sallmon, and Ray Wiggs.
Eva Wedel is minister of music of the church; Barbara Thorsen is organist.

GREAT

                  16'
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Lieblich
Gedeckt (wood)

                  8'
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Open
Diapason (tin - facade)

                  8'
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Melodia
(open wood)

                  4'
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Octave

                  4'
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Flute
d'Amour (wood)

                  2'
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Fifteenth

                  11/3'
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Fourniture IV

                  8'
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Minor
Trumpet (Sw 16')

                                    Cymbalstern

                                    Gt
16-UO-4

                                    Sw
16-8-4

SWELL

                  8'
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Stopped
Diapason (wood)

                  8'
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Salicional

                  8'
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Voix
Celeste (TC)

                  4'
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Principal

                  4'
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Harmonic
Flute (open metal)

                  2'
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Flageolet
(harmonic)

                  2'
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Plein
Jeu IV

                  16'
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Basson

                  8'
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Trompette

                  8'
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Oboe

                  4'
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Clarion
(ext 16')

                                    Tremulant

                                    Sw
16-UO-4

PEDAL

                  32'
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Subbass
(1-12 elect ext Bourdon)

                  32'
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Lieblich
Gedeckt (1-12 elect ext Gt)

                  16'
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Bourdon
(wood)

                  16'
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Lieblich
Gedeckt (Gt)

                  8'
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Octave
(tin - facade)

                  8'
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Bass
Flute (ext)

                  8'
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Gedeckt
Flute (Gt)

                  4'
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Choral
Bass (ext)

                  16'
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Trombone

                  16'
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Basson
(Sw)

                  4'
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Clarion
(Sw 16')

                                    Gt
8-4

                                    Sw
8-4

B. Rule & Co.,
New Market, TN, has recently completed a four-stop practice organ for a
residence in Knoxville, TN. A simple mechanical action of cherry backfalls and
correctly-sized pallet valves ensure a responsive touch, including a definite
sense of "pluck." The action compensates for seasonal humidity
changes. Several ranks of 19th-century pipework, small-scaled and gently
voiced, were incorporated into the organ. 
The old Vox Humana was revoiced into a regal-type reed. The Principal
4', made by Paul Byron of York, ME, has eight polished tin pipes in the facade.
The customer, who has experience with building harpsichords from kits, was able
to do some of the work, including painting the case, recovering the recycled
keyboards (c. 1865) with boxwood, and cutting out the patterns in the
ornamental center door panels. Windpressure 23/4"; temperament 1/6 comma,
after van Biezen; compass 56/30; couplers I/Ped, II/Ped, II/I.

MANUAL I

                  8'
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Chimney
Flute

                  4'
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Principal

MANUAL II

                  8'
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Gedeckt

                  8'
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Vox
Humana

PEDAL

                                    I/Ped

                                    II/Ped

The Schlicker Organ Company, Buffalo, NY, has built a new organ for Forest Park United Methodist
Church, Fort Wayne, IN: three manuals, 36 ranks. The new organ replaces an
instrument that was severely damaged by fire. Some of the pipework was
restored, rescaled, and revoiced in keeping with the concept of the new instrument.
The 3-manual English style console is moveable, and the choir has flexible
seating, allowing a variety of performance possibilities. Chest design is
electric slider with a solid state combination action.

GREAT

                  16'
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Gemshorn
(prep)

                  8'
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Principal

                  8'
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Hohl
Flute

                  8'
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Gemshorn
(ext, prep)

                  4'
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Octave

                  4'
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Spitz
Flute

                  2'
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Octave

                  IV
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Mixture

                  8'
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Trompete

                                    Chimes

                                    Zimbelstern

SWELL

                  16'
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Bourdon

                  8'
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Bourdon
(ext)

                  8'
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Viole

                  8'
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Celeste

                  4'
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Principal

                  4'
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Harmonic
Flute

                  2'
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Doublette

                  11/3'
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Quint

                  III
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Scharf

                  16'
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Oboe/Bassoon

                  8'
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Trompette

                  8'
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Oboe
(ext)

                  4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Clarion
(ext)

                                    Tremolo

CHOIR

                  8'
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Spire
Flute

                  8'
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Flute
Celeste

                  4'
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Rohr
Flute

                  22/3'
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Nazard

                  2'
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Principal

                  13/5'
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Tierce

                  III
style='mso-tab-count:1'>           
Cymbal

                  8'
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Clarinet

                                    Tremolo

FANFARE (prep)

                  16'
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Trompeta
(tc, ext)

                  8'
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Trompeta

                  4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Trompeta
(ext)

PEDAL

                  32'
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Resultant
(Gemshorn & Bourdon)

                  16'
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Principal

                  16'
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Gemshorn
(Gt, prep)

                  16'
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Bourdon
(Sw)

                  8'
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Octave
(ext)

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Bourdon
(Sw)

                  8'
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Gemshorn
(Gt, prep)

                  4'
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Octave

                  16'
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Posaune

                  16'
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Oboe/Bassoon
(Sw)

                  8'
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Posaune
(ext)

                  4'
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Oboe
(Sw)

John-Paul Buzard Pipe Organ Builders,
style='font-weight:normal'> Champaign, IL, has built a new organ for First
United Methodist Church, Park Ridge, IL: Opus 15, 34 stops, 42 ranks. The
church is a brick structure designed in the 1920s by a member of the
congregation. Of Tudor influence, the exterior features patterned brickwork,
interesting chimney treatments, and lavish half-timber work. The sanctuary's
interior features heavy hand-adzed dark oak beams, almost square windows, and
low arches.

The organ's cases were inspired by the oldest extant pipe
organ, in Sion, Switzerland. The heavy embattlement crenelations and mouldings
atop the towers and flats match details in the room and in architecture of the
period. The arched facade openings match the stained glass window frames and other broad arches elsewhere in the building. The casework of white oak is stained to harmonize with other furnishings. A simple universal pattern woven into circles is used for the pipeshades.

Tonal design was inspired by English cathedral organbuilding
style. A straight 3-manual organ would not fit within the available space or
projected budget, but the organ had to have a wide variety of unison colors,
complete choruses, mutation stops, reed stops for the Full Swell, a profound
pedal, and a high volume solo stop. A two-manual, divided swell concept was
developed to offer accompanimental flexibility and eliminate duplicate stops
needed to fill out a complete third division. Although inspired by English
examples, it is not an English romantic organ. A light articulation in the
speech of appropriate stops, moderate wind pressures, and inclusion of mutation
and mixture stops serve to make this an American organ of the 1990s.

Because of limited space in the balcony, the Great division
is housed in a free-standing case in front of the balcony rail; the Swell and
Pedal are in the balcony behind matching casework. The Great case is supported
by columns extending to the nave floor. English tin of 75% was used for the
facade pipes, incorporating the Great 8' Open Diapason, 4' Principal, and Pedal
8' Octave. Great flutes are 50% tin with relatively small mouths. Reed pipes,
with the exception of the low octave of the Pedal Trombone, are made entirely
of 50% tin, and utilize English shallots with varying degrees of opening and
taper. The Tuba 8' is horizontally mounted atop the swell box, just behind the
flats. The pipes retained from former instruments were thoroughly rebuilt and
revoiced for the new tonal concept. The Buzard staff included: Brian Davis,
voicer, pipe repair, tonal finishing; Stephen Downes, windchests, winding
system, framing, installation; Charles Eames, engineering, windchests,
electrical system, management; Michael Fisher, pipe repair, tonal finishing;
Charles Robert Leach, case, framing, installation; Stuart Martin, case,
framing, installation; Jay K. Salmon, office and Zen management; Ray Wiggs,
windchests, console, installation.

--John-Paul Buzard

GREAT

                  16'
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Lieblich
Gedeckt*

                  8'
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Open
Diapason

                  8'
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Flute
a Biberon

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Dulciana*

                  4'
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Principal

                  4'
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Koppel
Flute*

                  22/3'
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Twelfth*

                  2'
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Fifteenth

                  13/5'
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Seventeenth*

                  11/3'
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Fourniture IV

                  8'
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Minor
Trumpet (Sw 16')

                                    Tremulant

                                    Cymbalstern

                  8'
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Major
Tuba

                  8'
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Tuba
Solo (C25-C61)

SWELL "A"

                  8'
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Narrow
Diapason*

                  8'
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Salicional*

                  8'
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Voix
Celeste*

                  4'
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Principal*

                  2'
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Plein
Jeu IV

                  16'
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Basson

                  8'
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Trompette

                  8'
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Oboe

                  4'
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Clarion
(from 16')

                                    Tremulant

                  8'
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Major
Tuba (Gt)

                  8'
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Tuba
Solo (C25-C61, Gt)

SWELL "B"

                  8'
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Stopped
Diapason*

                  8'
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Open
Wood Flute Celeste

                  4'
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Traverse
Flute*

                  22/3'
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Nazard*

                  2'
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Block
Flute

                  13/5'
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Tierce*

                  11/3'
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Larigot

                  8'
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Clarinet

                                    Tremulant

PEDAL

                  32'
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Subbass
(1-12 electonic)

                  32'
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Lieblich
Gedeckt (1-12 electr)

                  16'
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Contra
Bass*

                  16'
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Violone
(wood)*

                  16'
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Bourdon
(wood)*

                  16'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>         
Lieblich
Gedeckt (Gt)*

                  8'
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Principal
(tin facade)

                  8'
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Violoncello
(ext)*

                  8'
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Gedeckt
Flute (ext Bourdon)*

                  4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Choral
Bass*

                  2'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Mixture
III*

                  16'
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Trombone

                  16'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>         
Basson
(Sw)

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Trumpet
(ext)

                  4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Clarion
(Sw 16')

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Major
Tuba (Gt)

* denotes old pipework

Austin Organs, Inc.,
Hartford, CT, has recently completed its Opus 2759 for Christ Church UCC
Congregational, Brockton, MA. The new building is octagonal in shape with the
organ situated 90° from the chancel. This position places the choir in
front of the organ with the solid-state drawknob console centered. The room
enjoys a favorable acoustic. The entire Choir division is prepared for. The
facade is composed of pipes from the Great 8' Principal, Great 8' Harmonic
Flute, Pedal 16' Principal, and Pedal 8' Octave. Director of music and organist
is J. Kimball Darling.

GREAT

                  16'
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Violone
(Ped-Sw)

                  8'
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Principal

                  8'
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Harmonic
Flute

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Violoncello
(Sw)

                  4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Octave

                  4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Flûte
à Cheminée

                  22/3'
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Twelfth

                  2'
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Fifteenth

                  IV
style='mso-tab-count:1'>           
Fourniture

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Hooded
Trumpet

                                    Tremulant

                                    Chimes

SWELL

                  8'
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Violoncello

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Cello
Celeste

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Chimney
Flute

                  4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Principal

                  4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Spire
Flute

                  22/3'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>     
Nasard

                  2'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Zauberflote

                  13/5'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>     
Tierce

                  IV
style='mso-tab-count:1'>           
Plein
Jeu

                  16'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>         
Basson

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Trompette

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Hautbois
(ext)

                  4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Clairon
(ext)

                                    Tremulant

CHOIR (prep)

                  8'
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Gedeckt

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Dulciana

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Celeste

                  4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Prestant

                  4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Coppel
Flute

                  2'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Spire
Principal

                  11/3'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>     
Larigot

                  II
style='mso-tab-count:1'>             
Scharf

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Cromorne

                                    Tremulant

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Trumpet
(Gt)

PEDAL

                  32'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>         
Resultant

                  16'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>         
Principal
(ext Gt 8')

                  16'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>         
Bourdon

                  16'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>         
Violone

                  16'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>         
Lieblich
Gedeckt (prep)

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Octave

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Bourdon
(ext)

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Violoncello
(Sw)

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Gedeckt
(Ch, prep)

                  4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Choral
Bass (ext)

                  II
style='mso-tab-count:1'>             
Fourniture

                  32'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>         
Contre
Basson (ext)

                  16'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>         
Trombone
(ext Gt 8')

                  16'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>         
Basson
(Sw)

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Trompette
(Sw)

                  4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Cromorne
(Ch, prep)

T. R. Rench and Co., Racine, WI, has completed a new organ for Coon Valley Lutheran Church, Coon Valley, WI. This is the third pipe organ in this Norwegian Lutheran church, and replaces a theatre organ installed in the 1950s. (The style 135 Wurlitzer is being re-installed in its original theatre in nearby Viroqua, WI.) Containing 17 sets of pipes (19 ranks), the new organ is of electro-pneumatic construction, and all windchests are of the unit type. Windpressures are 5" for the 16' Trumpet and 33/4" for the organ in general. The stoplist reflects 19th-century American and German Romantic tonal styles. However, a Cornet group is provided and the Swell division contains the basic elements of a Positive division. The layout of the instrument has the Swell in the organ chamber and the Great in front, contained by casework of walnut and mahogany. The front display pipes are from the church's first organ, restored to the original stencil designs and colors. Consultant to the church council was John Henley of Sauk City, WI.

GREAT

                  16'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>         
Sub
Diapason (ext)

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Open
Diapason

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Melodia

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Dulciana

                  4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Octave

                  4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Wald
Flute

                  2'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Fifteenth

                                    IIIMixture

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Trumpet

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Cromorne
(Sw)

SWELL

                  16'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>         
Lieblich
Gedeckt (ext)

                  8'
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Diapason

                  8'
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Gedeckt

                  8'
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Salicional

                  8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'>            
Celeste

                  4'
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Principal

                  4'
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Harmonic
Flute

                  22/3'
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Nazard

                  2'
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Principal

                  2'
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Piccolo

13/5'      Tierce

                  11/3'
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Larigot (ext)

                  8'
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Cromorne

                                    Tremulant

                  8'
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Trumpet
(Gt)

PEDAL

                  16'
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Sub
Bass

                  16'
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Lieblich
(Sw)

                  8'
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Open
Bass

                  8'
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Bourdon
(ext)

                  8'
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Gedeckt
(Sw)

                  4'
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Choral
Bass (ext)

                  16'
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Trumpet
(ext)

                  4'
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Cromorne
(Sw)

The Schlicker Organ Company, Buffalo, NY, has built a new organ for First United Methodist Church,
Green Bay, WI. The 29-rank organ is located in divided cases in the rear
gallery, allowing it to speak clearly into the nave. The tonal concept provides
a complete 2-manual organ with 8' Principal choruses in each division. In order
to increase tonal flexibility for solo literature as well as accompanying the
choir, three Swell stops were given a separate manual and couplers as a Solo
division. This allows them to be used as part of the Swell chorus or in
contrast to it. The three-manual, terraced drawknob console is prepared for a
future antiphonal division, playable from the Solo manual. Schlicker's artistic
director, J. Stanton Peters, designed the specification and scaling to include
broad scaled principals with high cut-ups and a wide spectrum of colors, producing
a vocal quality and versatility in its liturgical function.

GREAT

                  16'
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Bourdon

                  8'
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Principal

                  8'
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Rohr
Flute

                  4'
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Octave

                  4'
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Spire
Flute

                  2'
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Octave

                  II
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Sesquialtera

                  IV
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Mixture

                  8'
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Trumpet

SWELL

                  8'
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Gedeckt

                  8'
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Gamba

                  8'
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Celeste
FF

                  4'
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Principal

                  2'
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Doublette

                  III
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Scharf

                  16'
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Bassoon

                  8'
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Harmonic
Trumpet

                  8'
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Oboe

                                    Tremolo

SOLO (enclosed with Swell)

                  8'
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Geigen
Principal

                  4'
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Harmonic
Flute

                  8'
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Cromorne

                                    Tremolo

ANTIPHONAL (prep)

PEDAL

                  32'
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Resultant

                  16'
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Principal

                  16'
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Subbass

                  8'
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Octave

                  8'
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Bourdon

                  4'
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Octave

                  IV
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Mixture
(prep)

                  16'
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Trumpet
(ext Gt)

                  16'
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Bassoon
(Sw)

                  8'
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Trumpet
(Gt)

                  4'
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Oboe
(Sw)

Visscher Associates,
Santa Cruz, CA, has built a new organ for Trinity United Methodist Church,
Chico, CA. Casework is of California walnut and Eastern black walnut. Facade
pipes in the towers are of polished copper, with the center pipe in each
"point" having a "flamed" upper lip of polished tin. Facade
pipes in the flats are of 75% tin. Key and stop action are mechanical. Swell
shades immediately behind the facade pipes provide expression for the manual
stops except the 8' Prestant. The depth from the wall to the front of the case
is 60 inches, which allows choir members to stand in front of the organ when
singing. To make the organ this shallow, bottom octave pipes of the Pedal 16'
Subbass and 16' Bassoon were located in recesses on the back wall to either
side of the main case. Having only space and funds for a smaller organ of 14
stops, the decision was made to opt for what is basically a single manual division with "either-or" registration, allowing any of the manual stops to be played on either keyboard. The option not taken, of dividing the stoplist between two independent divisions, would significantly decrease registration possibilities. Manual stop levers move up to the "on" position for the upper keyboard, to a detent in the middle for off, and down to the "on" position for the lower keyboard. The bottom 12 pipes of the 16' Contra-Bassoon are unique in that they employ "Haskell" miters for
the bottom octave. The two-piece resonator has a half-length "cap" of
parallel proportions fitting over a half-length, tapered bass, creating a
continuous taper, full-length, 16' resonator in nine feet. Dr. David Rothe was
consultant and played the dedication recital. Molly Wadsworth was chair of the
organ committee, and Ellen Rowan is Pastor of the church. Visscher Associates'
staff involved in building this organ included Lorraine Emery, Bret Smith,
Timothy O'Brien, Ernesto Sustaita, Gwen Shupe, and William Visscher.

MANUAL I or II

                  8'
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Prestant

                  8'
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Viol
(1-4 from Gedeckt)

                  8'
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Celeste
(TC)

                  8'
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Gedeckt

                  4'
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Octave

                  4'
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Spire
Flute

                  2'
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Spindle
Flute

                  11/3'
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Quint

                  III
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Mixture

                  8'
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Trumpet

                                    Chimes

PEDAL

                  16'
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Subbass

                  8'
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Stopped
Bass (ext)

                  16'
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Contra-Bassoon

                  8'
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Bassoon
(ext)

 

Accessories

Tremulant

16' Contra-Bassoon reversible

I/Ped reversible

II/Ped reversible

II/I reversible

J.F. Nordlie Company,
Sioux Falls, SD, has built a new organ for Edina Community Lutheran Church,
Edina, MN: an electro-mechanical action instrument of six ranks. The free
standing case and open keydesk are constructed of rift sawn red oak. The low 20
pipes of the Principal 8' are made of polished aluminum and make up the facade.
The console is connected to the organ by a single fiber optic cable allowing
flexibility in placement. The integrated combination/relay action as built by
Matters, Inc., allows complete programmable control over the switching system
and a sophisticated combination action complete with transposer and player
mechanism. Carsten Slostad is Music Director for the church and served as
consultant on the organ project. The organ was built in the Nordlie shop by
craftsmen John F. Nordlie, Paul E. Nordlie, Trintje Nordlie, David L. Beyer,
Martin D. Larsen, Eric Grane, James Greenwald, and Beth MacDonald.

Analysis

A Bourdon 16' 85 pipes, 13-85 enclosed, 1-24 wood, variable
scale, 1-40 Gedackt, 41-54 Rohrflöte, 55-85 Blockflöte

B Principal 8' CC-g'' 44 open metal pipes unenclosed, 1-20
aluminum facade

C Octave 4' c°-g'''' 56 open metal pipes unenclosed

D Gemshorn 8' 85 pipes, enclosed, variable scale

E Quinte 11/3' CC-d''' 51 pipes, enclosed, variable scale

F Terz 13/5' c°-d''' 39 pipes, enclosed

G Trumpet 16' prepared

GREAT

                  16'
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Bourdon
A

                  8'
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Principal
B

                  8'
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Gedackt
A

                  8'
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Gemshorn
D

                  4'
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Octave
C

                  4'
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Rohrflöte
A

                  22/3'
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Quint E

                  2'
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Octave
C

                  13/5'
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Terz F

                  1'
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Mixture
II-III D&E

                  16'
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Trumpet
G (prep)

                  8'
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Trumpet
G (prep)

                  4'
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Clairon
G (prep)

SWELL

                  8'
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Gedackt
A

                  8'
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Gemshorn
D

                  4'
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Rohrflöte
A

                  4'
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Gemshorn
D

                  22/3'
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Quinte E

                  2'
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Principal
C

                  2'
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Gemshorn
D

                  13/5'
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Terz F

                  11/3
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Quint E

                  16'
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Trumpet
G (prep)

                  8'
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Trumpet
G (prep)

                  4'
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Clairon
G (prep)

PEDAL

                  16'
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Bourdon
A

                  8'
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Principal
B

                  8'
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Gedackt
A

                  8'
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Gemshorn
D

                  51/3'
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Quint A

                  4'
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Octave
C

                  4'
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Gedackt
A

                  2'
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Octave
C

                  11/3'
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Mixture III
C&E

                  16'
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Harmonics
D

                  16'
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Trumpet
G (prep)

                  8'
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Trumpet
G (prep)

                  4'
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Clairon
G (prep)

MIDI

Eight programmable stops x nine levels memory for a total of
72 MIDI stops. All stops with choice of coupling or non-coupling and accessible
in any division. Connections for MIDI in, MIDI out, and MIDI thru.

New Organs

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First Baptist Church, Ocala, Florida

 

The Wicks Organ Co., Highland, Illinois, Opus 6382

 

In 1992, First Baptist Church of Ocala, Florida began a process of rebirth after a fire claimed all they had: furnishings, libraries, a concert grand piano, a Skinner pipe organ, choir robes, hymnals and Bibles. The congregation built a new 2,800-seat facility, which is one of the largest churches in Ocala. The final step of their rebuilding process was bringing a pipe organ into the new building.

David Kocsis, Wicks Area Sales Director writes:

Among the unique features of this project, the organ was to be a gift from a non-member--but one whose daughter and son-in-law were members. Secondly, the church provided a single sheet outlining their requirements for this instrument. The organ was to be a "supplemental" instrument, used mostly to enhance the 25-piece orchestra and 180-voice choir. It would also, upon occasion, be used as a recital instrument. They wanted an instrument of the "American Classic" school with the following characteristics incorporated: four-manual drawknob console; multiple Principal choruses; plentiful and opulent strings; a variety of flute choruses and solo stops; reeds to complement the overall instrument and offer solo opportunities; a Pedal division that offers strong, solid underpinning with at least two 32’ stops; a Trompette-en-Chamade of polished copper with flared bells; exposed pipework across entire chamber area (52 ft.) to eliminate existing latticework and grillwork; preparation on console for Chimes and Zimbelstern; MIDI capability.

Our proposal was for an instrument of 74 pipe ranks over five divisions with an additional four 32-foot computer-generated stops in the Pedal division, using the Walker Paradox system. The plan also called for (at the direction of the church) preparations for an 11-rank Solo division, and a 9-rank Antiphonal division.

We decided early on that Daniel Angerstein would tonally finish the instrument. Although First Baptist, Ocala was not a bad room, the irregular shape and carpeting did not make it acoustically live, either. Our factory-trained technician in Florida, Mr. Robert Campbell, would handle the  installation.

The specification for the instrument was a joint venture design involving Area Director David Kocsis, his associate Herb Ridgely, and voicer Dan Angerstein. After the contract was signed in late November, 1998, the three members of the design team met at the church to study the acoustics, room layout, chamber space, etc., so that detailed design work could begin. On the drive back to Atlanta, the pipe scales for the organ were discussed and finalized. The entire organ would be on 5" wind pressure with the notable exception of the Trompette-en-Chamade, which was to be on 10" wind pressure, and the Choir division English Tuba on 12". In order to "ring" the room, the Great 8' Principal would be built to a 40 scale, and the Great 8' Montre a 42 scale. One of the features of the design is the placement of the lowest pipes of the Pedal 16' Open Wood in the organ facade, stained to match the rest of the woodwork in the sanctuary. This placement allows the most profound of 16-foot foundation tone immediate access to the room. Of particular interest in the Walker system designed for this organ is that the computer-generated harp in the Choir can also be used with the Tremulant, providing a vibraharp sound.

There are several ancillary console controls that enhance ease of playing such a massive console, and also add facility to the instrument. These include: Pedal, Solo and Swell Melody couplers to the Great, all Swells to Swell, all Mixtures Off, all 32's Off, All Reeds Off, and All Celestes Off. To allow maximum visibility and eye contact between the organist and the minister of music, all inter-manual couplers were placed in the stop jambs, rather than on a coupler rail. This resulted in a console somewhat wider than normal (slightly over 8 feet). There are eight divisional pistons and 15 General pistons with 32 levels of memory. A 13-position transposer is included. The main body of the casework is painted semi-gloss off white, again matching the main color in the sanctuary. The whole idea was to give the impression that the building and the organ had been conceived as an integral whole.

The first of two truckloads of pipe organ arrived in Ocala on March 22, 2000, and the second truck arrived on April 12. Installation was completed on June 3 and voicing of the instrument in the room began on June 5. The logistical problems associated with installing a large pipe organ are many. The crew faced a 52-foot facade that begins 12' above the top choir riser and extends upward to accommodate full length 16-foot metal Principals and full length 16-foot Open Wood pipes. Bob Campbell's crew had scaffolding from floor to ceiling that would cover one of the four sections, and it took a considerable amount of careful planning to insure that all work was completed on one bay before tearing down the scaffolding and moving it to the next location.

From the beginning of the installation, the entire organ facade was covered every Sunday during church services so that the completed installation could be unveiled at one time. This occasion occurred on Sunday, June 4, 2000. The Sanctuary was dimly lit, and at the appropriate time, the entire organ facade was lit by a battery of specially placed lighting. This was only the prelude--the organ was heard for the first time by the congregation on July 2.

We at Wicks thank the committee and staff of first Baptist Church of Ocala for placing their trust in us to build an instrument according to their wishes. In particular, we would like to thank Dr. Ed Johnson, Sr. Pastor; Mr. Terry Williams, Minister of Music; and Mr. Larry Kerner, Chair of the Organ Committee. The entire congregation placed its confidence in us from the outset, and was extremely helpful from the beginning of the detailed design process through the installation. Several members of the church also volunteered their time and talents to help with the installation, especially with fitting and trimming of the facade to accommodate slight building irregularities. This really was a "team" effort, and everyone should be very proud of the results.

The dedication of the new IV/74 instrument at the First Baptist Church of Ocala, FL will be held on Sunday, September 24, 2000, featuring John Weaver, organ chair at The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and The Julliard School of Music in New York City.

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GREAT

1. 16' Montre

2. 16'    Bourdon

3. 8' Principal

4. 8' Montre (from #1)

5. 8' Flute Couverte

6. 8' Flute Harmonique

7. 4' Octave

8. 8' Gemshorn

9. 4' Nachthorn

10. 22/3' Twelfth

11. 2' Fifteenth

12. 2' Hohlflute (from #6)

13. 13/5' Seventeenth

14. IV-V Fourniture

15. IV Cymbale

16. 16' Kontra Trompete (from #17)

17. 8' Trompete

18. 8' Trompete en Chamade (10≤ w.p.)

19. Tremulant (Flutes)

20. Chimes [D]

21. Zimbelstern

22. Pedal Bass Coupler to Great

23. Swell Melody Coupler to Great

24. Solo Melody Coupler to Great

25. MIDI on Great

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SWELL (Enclosed)

26. 16' Bourdon Doux

27. 8' Geigen Principal

28. 8' Rohrflute (from #26)

29. 8' Viola Pomposa

30. 8' Viola Celeste

31. 8' Flauto Dolce

32. 8' Dolce Celeste TC

33. 4' Prestant

34. 4' Flauto Traverso

35. 22/3' Nazard

36. 2' Quarte de Nazard

37. 13/5' Tierce

38. IV-V Plein Jeu

39. III-IV Cymbale

40. 16' Contre Trompette

41. 8' Trompette

42. 8' Oboe

43. 8' Vox Humana

44. 4' Clairon (from #40)

45. 8' English Tuba (Ch)

46. 8' Trompette en Chamade (Gt)

47. Tremulant

48. MIDI On Swell

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CHOIR (Enclosed)

49. 16' Gemshorn [D]

50. 8' English Diapason

51. 8' Flute Ouverte

52. 8' Gemshorn

53. 8' Gemshorn Celeste TC

54. 4' Principal

55. 4' Koppelflute

56. 2' Principal

57. 11/3' Larigot

58. 1' Principal (from #56)

59. II Sesquialtera

60. IV-V Scharf

61. 16' Dulzian (from #62)

62. 8' Cromorne

63. 4' Rohr Schalmei

64. 16' English Tuba TC (from #65)

65. 8' English Tuba (12≤ w.p.)

66. 8' Trompette en Chamade (Gt)

67. 8' Harp [D]

68. 4' Harp Celesta [D]

69. Tremulant

70. MIDI On Choir

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SOLO (Enclosed)

15 Prepared Stops

71. 16' Trompette en Chamade TC (Gt)

72. 8' Trompette en Chamade (Gt)

73. 4' Trompette en Chamade (Gt)

74. 16' English Tuba TC (Ch)

75. 8' English Tuba (Ch)

76. 4' English Tuba (Ch)

77. MIDI On Solo

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ANTIPHONAL (Floating)

12 Prepared Stops

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ANTIPHONAL PEDAL

1 Prepared Stop

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PEDAL

78. 32' Contra Principal [D]

79. 32' Contra Bourdon [D]

80. 16' Open Wood

81. 16' Bourdon

82. 16' Principal

83. 16' Montre (Gt)

84. 16' Bourdon Doux (Sw)

85. 16' Gemshorn (Ch)

86. 8' Octave

87. 8' Major Bass (from #80)

88. 8' Bourdon (from #81)

89. 8' Viola (Sw)

90. 8' Open Flute (Ch)

91. 62/5' Gross Terz (Gt)

92. 51/3' Gross Quinte (Gt)

93. 4' Choral Bass

94. 4' Cantus Flute

95. 2' Flute (from #94)

96. IV Grave Mixture

97. IV Acuta

98. 32' Contra Bombarde [D]

99. 32' Contra Fagotto [D]

100. 32' Cornet des Bombardes IV

101. 16' Bombarde

102. 16' Contre Trompette (Sw)

103. 16' Kontra Trompete (Gt)

104. 16' Dulzian (Ch)

105. 8' Trompette

106. 8' Trompete (Gt)

107. 8' Oboe (Sw)

108. 4' Bombarde Clarion (from #101)

109. 4' Oboe (Sw)

110. 4' Schalmei (Ch)

111. 8' Trompette en Chamade (Gt)

112. 8' English Tuba (Ch)

113. Chimes (Gt)

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Couplers

Sw/Gt 16 8 4

Ch/Gt 16 8 4

So/Gt 16 8 4

Ant on Gt

So/Sw 16 8 4

Ant on Sw

Sw/Ch 16 8 4

So/Ch 16 8 4

Ant on Ch

Ant on So

Gt 16 UO

Sw 16 UO 4

Ch 16 UO 4

So 16 UO 4

Ant UO 4

Gt/Ped 8 4

Sw/Ped 8 4

Ch/Ped 8 4

So/Ped 8 4

Ant/Ped 8

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Charles M. Ruggles, Conifer, Colorado, has built a new organ for The Randolph Church, Randolph, New Hampshire. The organ is designed on classic models typical of instruments found in New England and European churches; two manuals and pedal, mechanical action. Its structural and tonal characteristics make it suitable for the needs of The Randolph Church--for service playing, accompanying congregational singing, and playing a wide segment of standard organ literature. The case features cherry wood frame, redwood panels, and walnut trim. The Rohrflöte 8 and Octave 2 are common between the two manuals; the Bourdon 16 is an extension of the Bourdon 8. Manual compass 56 notes, pedal compass 30 notes; standard AGO pedalboard. Couplers, operated by foot levers, include Great to Pedal, Swell to Pedal, and Swell to Great.

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GREAT

                  8'             Principal

                  8'             Rohrflöte

                  4'             Octave

                  2'             Octave

                                    Mixture

                                    Sesquialtera II (from middle c)

SWELL

                  8'             Rohrflöte

                  8'             Gamba (tenor C)

                  4'             Flute

                  2'             Octave

                  8'             Dulcian

PEDAL

                  16'          Bourdon

                  8'             Bourdon

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B. Rule & Company, New Market, Tennessee, has rebuilt and installed a Hook & Hastings organ for Covenant Baptist Church, Houston, Texas. Built by Hook & Hastings in 1893 for First Baptist Church of Georgetown, Kentucky, the organ was removed from this church in 1963. It was owned for many years by David Bottom, of Lexington, Kentucky, who set it up in several different locations before carefully putting it in storage several years ago. B. Rule recommended the organ to Covenant Baptist Church, who bought it from David Bottom. Compass: 58/27.

B. Rule & Co. rebuilt the organ, including a complete rebuild of the chests and bellows and re-covering the manual keys with bone. The hand-pumping mechanism was also restored. Two changes were made: the Dulciana was replaced with a 2' Fifteenth, and the Oboe was extended to full compass from its previous tenor C status.

The small new sanctuary has a concrete floor and live acoustics, creating an environment which encourages congregational singing. The acoustical consultant was Charles Boner. The organist of the church is Carl McAliley, who played a joint dedication recital with Bruce Power on March 4.

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GREAT

                  8'             Open Diapason

                  8'             Melodia

                  4'             Octave

                  2'             Fifteenth

SWELL

                  8'             Stopped Diapason

                  8'             Viola (1-12 from St. Diap)

                  4'             Harmonic Flute

                  8'             Oboe

PEDAL

                  16'          Bourdon

Accessories

                                    Sw/Gt

                                    Gt/Ped

                                    Sw/Ped

                                    Sw/Gt Octaves

                                    Tremolo

                                    Blower Signal

 

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Lauck Pipe Organ Company, Otsego, Michigan

Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights,
Illinois

Trinity Christian College is a four-year liberal arts college founded in
1959 and located in Palos Heights, Illinois, a suburb 25 miles southwest of
Chicago. It is dedicated to providing students with a quality higher education
in the Reformed Christian tradition. The college has grown extensively in
recent years with many new buildings erected. In 2001, the college dedicated a
new 1,200-seat auditorium: The Martin and Janet Ozinga Chapel. The chapel is
also the home of the college's music department with faculty offices, rehearsal
rooms, a recital hall, a music computer lab, and practice rooms. An organ for
the auditorium was envisioned from the building's conception.

Under the chairmanship of music department chair Helen Van Wyck, a committee
was formed to choose a builder for the organ. Paula Pugh Romanaux was selected
as the consultant to work with the committee. After visiting several of our organs,
Lauck Pipe Organ Company was chosen to build the organ. Working with the
builder, the committee decided that the instrument would be located at the back
of the stage and would occupy the central position. The committee felt that an
organ with a detached console would prove more flexible, especially when used
with orchestra and to accompany small ensembles.

Several designs for the organ case were prepared ranging from traditional to
contemporary, the latter being chosen. The proportions of the case are generous
in order to fill the expansive rear wall of the stage area. The façade
consists of the 16' Principal, 8' Pedal Octave and the 8' Great Diapason,
with  pipes of polished tin. The
casework is arranged so that the Pedal division occupies the center and two
outer towers. Between the left and center tower is the Great Principal chorus
with the Choir division above. Between the right and center towers are the
Great flutes and reed with the Swell division above. A shallow case with
expression shades capable of a full range of motion allow for excellent egress
of sound. The emblem at the top of the center tower is the college's logo done
in relief and gilded.

Over the past 30 years, we have built many French-terraced consoles with
curved terraces, but Marilyn Mulder, the school's organ instructor, suggested a
console based on a design she saw at Chicago's Orchestra Hall. From her
photograph, we designed and built a console with straight, oblique terraces.
The woodwork is of cherry to match other furnishings in the chapel. The
terraces, keycheeks, manual and pedal sharps, and drawknobs are all of
rosewood. The manual naturals are of bone. Peterson supplied the MIDI system
and combination action. Lauck manufactured the coupler and relay systems, as
well as the electric expression servos.

The room, alas, suffers from insufficient reflection of sound. As we worked
with the acoustician and architect, the organ committee and I realized we would
not be able to have all of our requests granted; the acoustician was more
interested in absorbing rather than reflecting sound. The architect and
building committee did agree that the expansive drywall ceiling would be well
supported and made up of a double layer glued together so as to not absorb the
lower frequencies. Preliminary acoustical tests of the room proved that we
needed a lot of sound to fill it. The organ had to be scaled very boldly, with
variable scales and higher cut-ups being freely employed. In addition, generous
wind pressures, especially in the reeds, would be used. Our tonal concept was
to establish well-developed Principal choruses in each division, colorful and
contrasting flute choruses, and chorus reeds that bind together well. This goal
was achieved and supplemented by colorful solo reeds and strings with character
and variety.

The Great is based on a 16' Principal. The 8' extension of the Principal can
be used as a second Diapason and creates a rich fond d'orgue with the open and
stopped flutes. Mutations provide for a Great Principal Cornet. To ensure a
bold, full pedal, the 16' Diapason is really a 16' open wood located in the
central tower of the case. The Great 16' Principal is also available in the
Pedal for use in lighter textures, while the 8' Octave and 4' Choralbass are
independent. The Trumpet-en-Chamade is made of tin and is voiced on 10 inches
of wind pressure using domed parallel shallots. The Pedal Trombone unit is also
voiced with domed parallel shallots on 8 inches of wind pressure. The Swell
reeds are on 6 inches of wind with the Bassoon/Oboe having tapered shallots and
the Trumpet/Clarion parallel shallots. The Swell Gamba and Gamba Celeste are
slotted with rollers throughout. It is a well-developed string tone with good
strength and carrying power; however, the expression boxes and shades are
heavily built and can make the strings evaporate when desired. The Swell also
has a Flute Celeste, which is built as a Ludwigtone; basically, two wood pipes
built with a common middle wall on one foot. The Choir Viola and Viola Celeste
are of about equal power to the Swell strings but are not slotted and are of a
broader tone quality. They are voiced to work together perfectly yet retain
their individual colors.

The Lauck employees that built Opus 55 include: Craig Manor, console design
and construction, wood pipes; Ken Reed, pipemaker, office manager; Ben Aldrich,
design, windchests, foreman; Bob Dykstra, windchests, wood pipes, casework;
Dick Slider, windchests, lower casework; Dan Staley, circuit board
manufacturing, wiring; Jim Lauck, design, voicing, tonal finishing; Jonathan
Tuuk; tonal finishing.

--Jim Lauck

Lauck Opus 55, 2002

3 manuals, 46 ranks, electric action

GREAT

16' Principal  (61 pipes)

8' Diapason (61 pipes)

8' Principal (12 pipes)

8' Rohrflute (61 pipes)

8' Flute Harmonique (61 pipes)

4' Octave (61 pipes)

4' Principal (12 pipes)

4' Flute Octaviante (12 pipes)

22/3' Quint (61 pipes)

2' Superoctave (61 pipes)

13/5' Tierce (61 pipes)

IV Fourniture (244 pipes)

8' Trumpet (61 pipes)

8' Trumpet-en-Chamade (61 pipes)

                        Great
to Great 4

                        Swell
to Great 16-8-4

                        Choir
to Great 16-8-4

                        Zimbelstern

SWELL

16'  Bourdon (12 pipes)

8' Bourdon (61 pipes)

8' Gamba (61 pipes)

8' Gamba Celeste (49 pipes)

8' Flute Celeste (49 pipes)

4' Principal (61 pipes)

4' Spitzflute (61 pipes)

2' Blockflute (12 pipes)

V Mixture (293 pipes)

16' Bassoon (61 pipes)

8' Trumpet (61 pipes)

8' Oboe (12 pipes)

4' Clarion (12 pipes)

Tremulant

Swell to Swell 16-UO-4

CHOIR

8' Gedeckt (61 pipes)

8' Viola  (61 pipes)

8' Viola Celeste (49 pipes)

4' Principal (61 pipes)

4' Koppelflute (61 pipes)

22/3' Nazard (61 pipes)

2' Octave (61 pipes)

2' Flautino (12 pipes)

13/5' Tierce (61 pipes)

11/3' Larigot (5 pipes)

III Scharff (183 pipes)

8' Cromorne (61 pipes)

8' Trumpet-en-Chamade (Gt)

Tremulant

Choir to Choir 16-UO-4

Swell to Choir 16-8-4       

PEDAL

32' Sub Bourdon (electronic ext)

16' Diapason (open wood) (32 pipes)

16' Principal (Great)

16' Subbass (32 pipes)

16' Bourdon (Swell)

8' Octave  (32 pipes)

8' Principal (Great)

8' Bass Flute (12 pipes)

4' Choralbass  (32 pipes)

II Rauschquint (64 pipes)

II Mixture  (24 pipes)

32' Contra Bassoon (electronic ext)

16' Trombone (32 pipes)

16' Bassoon (Swell)

8' Trumpet (12 pipes)

4' Clarion (12 pipes)

4' Cromorne (Choir)

Great to Pedal 8-4

Swell to Pedal 8-4

Choir to Pedal 8-4

Lauck Pipe Organ Company

92 - 24th Street

Otsego, MI 49078-9633

Telephone: 269/694-4500

Fax: 269/694-4401

<[email protected]>

Cover photo by Richard Lanenga

 

Paul Fritts and Co., Tacoma,
Washington, has built a new organ for Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York.
The mechanical-action pipe organ is installed in the 500-seat Mary Anna Fox
Martel Recital Hall of the Belle Skinner Music Building. It contains 34 stops
distributed over two manuals (Hauptwerk and Positiv) and Pedal.

The tonal design reflects both the North and Middle German schools of
organbuilding from the first half of the eighteenth century. North German
features include fully independent manual and pedal divisions with
well-developed upper work; a full spectrum of mutation stops (two on double
draws); and seven reed stops, 20% of the registers. Middle German building is
represented by a variety of six manual 8' flue stops; the “gravity”
of 16' stops in each manual division and four 16' pedal stops; a Tierce rank
which can be added to the Hauptwerk Mixture; and the inclusion of the Positiv
division in the main case, rather than positioned to the rear of the player.

The northern features pay homage to the seventeenth-century style of Arp
Schnitger and the middle German school points more to the pre-Romantic
eighteenth-century styles of Wender, Trost, Hildebrandt and others. The new
Vassar organ is well-suited for music of J. S. Bach with its cosmopolitan
mixture of northern, middle, and southern European traits. Other literature
from the sixteenth-century through the works of Mendelssohn will also sound to
advantage.

The new organ is placed centrally in a gallery nine feet above the stage
floor in the front of the hall. The case has a bright burgundy enamel finish.
Gold leaf highlights the gray painted pipe shades. The case and many internal
parts are crafted from popular. 
Many other woods were chosen for their various properties, including
mahogany, oak, maple, ebony, redwood and sugar pine.

Along with the new organ came alterations to the organ gallery and stage
area significantly improving acoustics, and a climate control system for the
recital hall. The Marian and Speros Martel Foundation Inc. donated funds
covering both the organ and hall improvements. Glenn D. White recommended
acoustical improvements, and Richard Turlington designed architectural plans
for the room. Frances D. Fergusson, President of Vassar College, initiated the
project. George B. Stauffer was consultant.

To inaugurate the new instrument, Merellyn Gallagher, James David Christie,
and Joan Lippincott played solo recitals in February and March 2003.

HAUPTWERK

16' Principal

8' Octava

8' Rohrflöte

8' Viol di Gamba

4' Octava

4' Spitzflöte

Nasat/Cornet II*

2' Superoctava

Mixture Tierce

Mixture IV–VI

16' Trompet

8' Trompet

POSITIVE

8' Geigenprincipal

8' Gedackt

8' Quintadena

4' Octava

4' Rohrflöte

2' Octava

2' Gemshorn

11/3' Quinte

Quint/Sesquialtara II*

Mixture IV–V

16' Fagotto

8' Dulcian

PEDAL

16' Principal**

16' Violon

16' Subbass

8' Octava***

8' Bourdon***

4' Octava

Mixture V–VII

16' Posaune

8' Trompet

4' Trompet

* Double draw

** Bottom octave transmission from Hauptwerk

*** Extension

Couplers

                        Positiv
to Hauptwerk

                        Hauptwerk
to Pedal          

                        Positiv
to Pedal

Manual/Pedal compass: 56/30, flat pedalboard

Burnished tin front pipes

Solid wood casework with pipe shades carved by Judy Fritts

Suspended key action

Mechanical stop action

Variable tremulant

Three bellows fitted with pedals for foot pumping

Wind stabilizer

Pitch: A 440

Temperament: Kellner

Wind pressure: 74 mm. (ca. 3≤)

Fabry Pipe Organs, Inc., of Fox
Lake, Illinois, has completed the 5-rank antiphonal division added to the
original Möller organ in Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church, Homewood,
Illinois.

Fabry Inc. installed the original M.P. Möller instrument (2 manuals, 19
ranks) in 1980 in the rear balcony of the sanctuary and has been maintaining
the organ since that time. The console was prepared for an antiphonal division.
On many occasions while tuning the instrument, the organist, Mrs. Phyllis
Silhan, would always say, “I hope I get to see this instrument completed
before I retire.” Twenty-two years later, the church elected to add the
antiphonal division.

The new antiphonal division was installed in October of 2002. The original
specification for this division--8' Gedeckt, 4' Gemshorn, 2' Flautino, II
Mixture--was changed to 8' Gedeckt, 4' Octave, 4' Harmonic Flute, 2' Fifteenth,
and 8' Oboe. A new solid-state relay was provided that is totally prepared for
the addition of a small antiphonal console.

Fabry Inc. would like to thank the organist, Mrs. Phyllis Silhan, and
Reverend Dr. Timothy Knaff, who coordinated the entire project. David G. Fabry
built all the chestwork and new casework. Crew leader Joseph Poland handled the
installation.

GREAT

8' Principal

8' Bourdon

4' Octave

2' Super Octave

IV Fourniture

8' Trompette (Sw)

SWELL

8' Rohrflote

8' Viola

8' Viola Celeste

4' Spitz Principal

4' Rohrflote (ext)

2' Hohlflote

III Scharf

8' Trompette

ANTIPHONAL (new division)

8' Gedeckt

4' Octave

4' Harmonic Flute

2' Fifteenth

8' Oboe

PEDAL

16' Contra Bass

16' Rohr Bourdon (ext)

8' Principal (Gt)

8' Rohrflote (Sw)

4' Nachthorn

16' Bombarde (ext)

4' Clarion (Sw)

COUPLERS

                        Gt
& Sw to Ped 8

                        Sw
to Gt 16-8-4

                        Gt
4

                        Sw
16-UO-4

                        Antiph
to Ped 8

                        Antiph
to Gt 8

                        Antiph
to Sw 8

Cover feature (August 2005: Schlueter)

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A. E. Schlueter Pipe Organ Company, Lithonia, Georgia

Bethel United Methodist Church, Charleston, South Carolina

The history of Bethel United Methodist Church, like so many
Southern coastal churches, is unique and storied. Founded in 1797, it is the
oldest United Methodist church in Charleston on its original building site and
was the only Methodist church to remain open during the Civil War. The current
sanctuary, built in 1853, remains largely as it was originally built, with the
exception of the side balconies that were removed in 1886 after the Charleston
earthquake. Bethel Church took to heart John Wesley’s instructions to his
followers “to sing lustily, modestly, in time, and above all, to sing
spiritually,” and has made music a major part of worship. This
understanding of worship and music led the Board of Stewards in 1874 to write:
“after giving the subject full consideration, we are of the opinion that
an improvement in our singing is desired by a large number of our congregation
and that this can be obtained by the use of an instrument of some kind.”

The first keyboard instrument used at Bethel was a melodeon
that served the church from 1874 to 1887. In 1887 the church undertook a major
renovation to enlarge the chancel area with a choir loft and the installation
of a pipe organ. A chamber was built on the front of the church to house the
instrument. The new pipe organ was built by the Felgemaker firm of Erie,
Pennsylvania: 12 ranks over two manuals and pedal, mechanical action, with
hand-pumped bellows. The organ wind continued to be raised by human hands until
1921 when an electric motor was installed.

In 1934 the church donated the Felgemaker to Spring Street
United Methodist Church and contracted with Austin Organs of Hartford,
Connecticut for a new instrument of 14 ranks on three manuals and pedal. It
served the church well over the next 70 years albeit with a limited stoplist,
and was damaged by Hurricane Hugo in 1989. The organ was repaired but
consideration was under way to replace it with a larger instrument to meet the
choral and congregational accompaniment needs. The study for a new organ was
led by Greg Jones, organist/choirmaster of Bethel Church.

A. E. Schlueter Pipe Organ Company  was called in to consult on the possibilities for a new
instrument. Our firm is well acquainted with Charleston through previous
projects, and we were excited to again be working in this city. Working with
Greg Jones and the organ committee of Bethel United Methodist Church, our firm
found kindred spirits that were resolute in the need for an instrument that
could fully support the music program of this dynamic ministry. A strong desire
was to design an organ that harkened to the church’s previous
instruments.

While not working toward a specific style of organbuilding,
the specification was to incorporate the romantic orchestral nature of the
early-1900s American organs in conjunction with the chorus structure found in
instruments built in the later 1900s. In a sense we found an instrument
patterning itself loosely around the formative designs of early American
Classicism, which itself was influenced by many nationalistic organbuilding
styles. In keeping with this style, the English influence of American
Classicism was allowed to flourish in this specification in concert with the
romanticism of early twentieth-century Amercan tonal design. The church desired
an organ that could pay homage to the genius of Skinner and Harrison in a
collective whole that would please both.

A fundamental consideration for a new instrument was
placement. The organ chamber that was added in the late 1800s had no room for
additional pipework. The interior of the church did not allow any additional
encroachment by the organ. While we have enjoyed the challenge of designing and
building custom organ cases--indeed these often become an
instrument’s signature--our firm recognized and was sensitive to the
church’s desire that the front of the chancel remain visually unchanged.
The non-speaking façade pipes and casement had been built in the 1930s
and were both of sound construction. Therefore, the only possible solution was
to increase the size of the present organ chamber and utilize the old
façade and case. This presented the unique challenge of an exterior
change to the sanctuary. The rich history of this city and its architecture
have been protected by strict zoning and a board of architectural review. The
redesign of the church exterior would have to be minimal and follow the precept
of the 1887 architecture. Detailed plans were drawn up, and the City of
Charleston approved the request for a change to the church’s structure.

This new organ comprises three manuals--Great, Swell,
Choir/Solo--and Pedal. The eclectic stoplist pays homage to American and
English tonal concepts with a purposeful regard for the room acoustic and
worship style. 

Space considerations led us to design the third manual as a
combined Choir/Solo division. Careful stop choice, pipework design, and scaling
were considered, particularly at 4’ pitch. The division duality also governed
the choice of strings and reeds.

The tonal design and scaling of the organ began with
attending worship at the church and study of the current and previous organ
stoplists. We were resolute in the need for a complete chorus in each division,
strings, flutes of differing weights and textures, and orchestral and chorus
reeds. Located in the Choir/Solo is an expressive high-pressure reed battery
consisting of a hooded English Tuba, hooded Tromba Heroique, Clarinet, and
French Horn.  These stops are duplexed
between the Great and Choir/Solo divisions. 

In keeping with the congregregational accompanimental nature
of the organ, each division has been designed around an independent 8’
weighted principal chorus. The divisional choruses, while differing in color,
are designed to complement one to another as a unified whole. The mixtures are
lower pitched than what might be found in many contemporary instruments, and
were scaled and voiced to serve as a foil to the divisional chorus without
stridency.

The strings and companion flutes in the expressive divisions
are designed to build weightless accompaniment for choral work. The strings,
when taken as a whole, allow the organ to feature a divided string organ
division located between the Swell and Choir/Solo divisions, linked by means of
couplers. The usually diminutive Flauto Dolce and its companion Celeste were
designed to maintain a slight string edge evocative of an Erzähler as part
of the massed expressive string chorus.

Our experience servicing organs in this area taught us the
need for stability in the materials and action choices for a region that has
extremes of temperature and constant humidity. The chest action is
electro-pneumatic slider with all reeds on electro-pneumatic unit action. In
this manner flue and reed pipes are on an action that maximizes the speech
characteristics and quality for each type of pipe. It also permits the flues
and reeds to be placed on differing wind pressures and tremulants. The wind is
regulated with dual curtain valve spring and weighted reservoirs, providing
wind that is stable but without being stiff and unyielding.

An organ of this type, with its wind pressures and scales,
can build a very powerful ensemble, and it is very important that the organ be
under effective expressive control. This is accomplished with extra thick
expression shades that interlock. Expression motors provide over 40 stages of
travel for complete dynamic control. With effective expression, the solo reeds
are useful with the Great chorus--even the Solo English Tuba on 14”
of wind can be tamed for use as a Great chorus reed.

The organ is controlled from a three-manual drawknob console
built of American walnut and ebony. 
It includes features such as multiple level memory, transposer,
Great/Choir manual transfer, programmable ventil cutouts, programmable
crescendo and sforzando, record/playback capability, and MIDI.

The organ was tonally finished in our customary manner with
initial tonal work followed by several planned returns. In this manner it is
possible to be much more objective in tonal finishing and allows the organ to
be used in a service role to properly judge its weight, color and balance. The
organ was tonally finished under the direction of Arthur Schlueter III and
Daniel Angerstein with the assistance of Lee Hendricks, John Tanner, and Marc
Conley.

Since its installation, the organ has been used in a number
of community concerts and has served for performances in the Spoleto Music
Festival.

Quality organ building is never the result of one individual
but is the result of a team effort. A. E. Schlueter Pipe Organ Company wishes
to thank its staff including:

Art Schlueter, Jr., president

Arthur Schlueter III, vice president/ tonal and artistic
direction

John Tanner, vice president of production/tonal finisher

Howard Weaver, senior design engineer

Shan Dalton, office manager/administrator assistant

Bob Parris, executive assistant

Marc Conley, shop foreman/tonal finisher

Randy Wilson, assistant shop foreman

Rob Black, master cabinetmaker/CAD organ design

Michael Desimone, leather and small parts

Katrina Thornton, financial secretary

Joe Sedlacek, Sr., console wiring

Joe Sedlacek, Jr., organ assembly

Mark McCurley, wiring

Steve Springer, CNC operator/woodwright

Mark Montour, woodwright

Dustin Carlisle, organ assembly

Jeffery Chilcutt, organ assembly

Kelvin Cheatham, organ assembly

Kevin Cartwright, tuning and service

Bob Weaver, tuning and service

Othel Liles, electrical engineer

Patty Conley, organ assembly

Herb Ridgley, Jr. sales and support staff

Don Land, sales and support staff

David Still, sales and support staff

--Arthur Schlueter III

Bethel United Methodist Church, Charleston, South Carolina,

three manuals, 51 ranks

 

All manual stops 61 pipes, pedal stops 32 pipes, unless
otherwise indicated

 

GREAT (41/2” wind pressure)

16’           Double
Open Diapason (12 pipes)

8’               Open
Diapason

8’               Principal

8’               Violone
(49 pipes)

8’               Bourdon

8’               Harmonic
Flute (44 pipes)

4’               Octave

4’               Spire
Flute

22/3’     Twelfth
(prepared for)

2’               Fifteenth

V                   Cornet
(prepared for)

IV-V        Mixture
11/3’ (281 pipes)

8’               Clarinet
(Choir/Solo, prep. for Gt. Trumpet)

16’           Trombone
(Choir/Solo, non-coupling)

8’               Tromba
Heroique (Choir/Solo, non-coupling)

4’               Tromba
(Choir/Solo, non-coupling)

8’               English
Tuba (Choir/Solo, non-coupling)

                        Chimes

                        Great
to Great 4’

                        Tremolo

SWELL (flues 6”, reeds 61/4” wind
pressure)

16’           Lieblich
Flute (12 pipes)

8’               Chimney
Flute

8’               Geigen
Principal

8’               Viole
de Gamba

8’               Viole
Celeste TC (49 pipes)

8’               Flauto
Dolce

8’               Flauto
Dolce Celeste TC (49 pipes)

4’               Geigen
Octave (12 pipes)

4’               Koppel
Flute

22/3’     Nazard

2’               Flageolet

13/5’     Tierce

IV-VI      Mixture
2’ (300 pipes)

16’           Contra
Oboe (12 pipes)

8’               Trumpet

8’               Oboe

8’               Vox
Humana (separate tremolo)

4’               Clarion
(12 pipes)

                        Swell
to Swell 16’

                        Swell
Unison Off

                        Swell
to Swell 4’

                        Tremolo

CHOIR/SOLO (flues 6”, reeds 73/4”, Tuba
18” wind pressure)

16’           Gemshorn
(61 notes)

8’               English
Diapason

8’               Hohl
Flute

8’               Gamba

8’               Gamba
Celeste TC (49 pipes)

8’               Gemshorn

8’               Gemshorn
Celeste (49 pipes)

4’               Principal

4’               Traverse
Flute

2’               Piccolo

11/3’     Quint

III                  Choral
Mixture 2’ (183 pipes)

8’               Clarinet

8’               French
Horn

8’               Tromba
Heroique

16’           English
Tuba (49 notes, non-coupling)

8’               English
Tuba (non-coupling)

4’               English
Tuba (49 notes, non-coupling)

Choir/Solo (on tablet rail)                              

Choir/Solo to Choir/Solo 16’

Choir/Solo Unison Off

Choir/Solo to Choir/Solo 4’

Harp (61 notes, digital, on tablet rail)

Zimbelstern (9 bells, on tablet rail)

Tremolo  

PEDAL

32’           Untersatz
(32 notes)

16’           Principal
(12 pipes)

16’           Double
Open Diapason (Great)

16’           Gemshorn
(Choir/Solo)

16’           Bourdon
(12 pipes)

16’           Lieblich
Flute (Swell)

8’               Octave

8’               Open
Diapason (Great)

8’               Gemshorn
(Choir/Solo)

8’               Bourdon

8’               Chimney
Flute (Swell)

4’               Choral
Bass

4’               Cantus
Flute (Great)

III                  Mixture
22/3’ (Great)

32’           Contra
Trombone (32 notes, digital)

32’           Harmonics
(32 notes, wired cornet series)

16’           Trombone
(12 pipes, Choir/Solo)

16’           Contra
Oboe (Swell)

8’               English
Tuba (Choir/Solo)

8’               Tromba
(Choir/Solo)

8’               Oboe
(Swell)

4’               Clairon
(Choir/Solo)

Chimes (32 notes, Gt, on tablet rail)

Inter-manual couplers

Great to Pedal 8’                                                        

Great to Pedal 4’

Swell to Pedal 8’

Swell to Pedal 4’

Choir/Solo to Pedal 8’

Choir/Solo to Pedal 4’

MIDI on Pedal

Swell to Great 16’

Swell to Great 8’

Swell to Great 4’

Choir/Solo to Great 16’

Choir/Solo to Great 8’

Choir/Solo to Great 4’

MIDI on Great

Great to Choir/Solo 8’

Swell to Choir/Solo 16’

Swell to Choir/Solo 8’

Swell to Choir/Solo 4’

MIDI on Choir/Solo

MIDI on Swell

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