Dobson Pipe Organ Builders, Ltd
style='font-weight:normal'>., Lake City, IA, has built a new organ for Elliott
Chapel of Presbyterian Homes, Evanston, IL. The firm's opus 64 of two
manuals, 26 stops and 25 ranks features mechanical key action and electric stop
action, with an 8-level solid state combination action. The two cases are of
rift sawn white oak with fumed finish. Manual keys are of ebony and rosewood;
the music rack has a veneer of elm burl. Wind pressures are 72 mm for manuals,
78 mm pedal; flexible winding. The chapel underwent major renovation under the
direction of architect Edward Sovik; all new chancel furnishings, removal of
carpets, and new lighting were included in a project which removed interior
stairways, placing them on the outside of the building, thereby doubling the
opening between the chancel and nave. The organ is divided into two cases, with
the Pedal division on the left and the manuals and keydesk on the right. The
organ was dedicated in recitals by Frederick Swann on November 26-27, 1994.
Consultant was Margaret McElwain Kemper, recently appointed Director of Music
and Organist of the Presbyterian Homes.
GREAT
16'
Bourdon
8'
Prestant
(facade #1-30)
8'
Chimney
Flute
4'
Octave
4'
Nachthorn
22/3'
Twelfth
2'
Fifteenth
style='mso-tab-count:1'>
13/5'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Seventeenth
IV
Mixture
8'
Trumpet
Tremulant
Sw/Gt
SWELL (Expressive)
8'
Gedackt
8'
Salicional
8'
Celeste
FF
4'
Principal
4'
Traverse
Flute
2'
Piccolo
11/3'
Gemsquinte
16'
Bassoon
8'
Oboe
PEDAL
16'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Subbass
16'
Bourdon (Gt)
8'
Prestant
(facade #1-20)
8'
Gedackt
(ext)
4'
Choralbass
(ext)
16'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Trombone
8'
Trumpet
(ext)
Gt/Ped
Sw/Ped
Levsen Organ Company,
Buffalo, IA, has built a new organ for St. Paul's Episcopal Church,
Atlanta, GA. The two-manual, 22-rank organ is the firm's opus 20. The
console and casework are of oak, with basswood for the windchests and internal
structure. Metal flues were made by Thomas Anderson of North Easton, MA; reed
pipes are from Trivo; wood pipes were made by the Levsen shop.
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> The detached console features a
micro-processor relay and fiber optic data transmission. Dr. Calvin Grimes is
organist of St. Paul's. David Crawford Stills and Joyce Finch Johnson
performed inaugural recitals.
GREAT
8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Diapason
8'
Lieblich
Gedeckt
8'
Salicional
4'
Octave
22/3'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Quint
2'
Super
Octave
SWELL
8'
Lieblich
Gedeckt
8'
Salicional
8'
Quintadena
4'
Lieblich
Flute
4'
Salicet
22/3'
Nazard
2'
Piccolo
8'
Oboe
Tremolo
PEDAL
16'
Bourdon
8'
Lieblich
Gedeckt
4'
Octave
4'
Lieblich
Flute
2'
Super
Octave
Kegg Pipe Organ Builders, Uniontown, OH, has built a new
organ for Sebring United Methodist Church, Sebring, OH. This seven-rank unit
organ fills this 120-seat church and replaces an aging electronic instrument.
The new pipe organ employs no electronic voices, and uses varied scaling in the
principals, flutes and reeds. The derived mixture is the first attempted by the
Kegg company, and has one break. It is drawn from the Octave and the Quint.
With the exception of the 8' Principal stop, the entire instrument is
enclosed in a shallow swell box set into the existing chamber. The standard
Kegg console is a terraced drawknob design with a walnut exterior, and is
fitted with a multiple memory SSL combination system. The manual keys are
reversed color, and are fitted with tracker touch: naturals are covered in
ebony and sharps are covered in walnut with polished bone caps; pedal sharps
are of walnut. The console and façade cases are of white oak.
Construction and installation were done by Charles Kegg, Frank Vinton and Lois
Lee. Tonal finishing was done by Charles Kegg and Fredrick Bahr. The organ was
dedicated December 18, 1994 by W. Robert Morrison, FAGO, of Canton, OH. Joyce
Gorby is organist and music director for the church.
GREAT
16'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Bourdon
8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Principal
8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Rohrflöte
8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Viole
8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Viole
Celeste
4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Octave
4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Flute
2'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Fifteenth
III
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Mixture
8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Oboe
Swell
to Great
SWELL
8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Rohrflöte
8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Viole
8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Viole
Celeste
4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Principal
4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Flute
22/3'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Nazard
2'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Flute
11/3'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Larigot
16'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Contra Oboe
8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Oboe
4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Oboe
Tremulant
Swell
16
Swell
4
PEDAL
32'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Resultant
16'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Bourdon
8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Principal
8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Bourdon
4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Octave
16'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Oboe
4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Oboe
Great
to Pedal
Swell
to Pedal
TONAL RESOURCES
8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Principal
61p
4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Octave
73p
11/3'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Quint 49p
16'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Rohrflöte
style='mso-tab-count:1'> 97p
8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Viole
GG 54p
8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Celeste
TC 49p
16'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Oboe
style='mso-tab-count:1'> 85p
