Wm. Johnson & Son Opus 543 (1880)

Images

Circa 1900 - The image is taken from an article--The Webber Correspondence--in THE TRACKER Volume 27, Number 1, Fall 1982. Author?? (Photograph by Thomas A Burrows, submitted by Stardust (Dusty) Johnson/Stardust (Dusty) Johnson)

Unknown - Central Music Hall exterior (Public Domain photo from the Chicagology website, used with permission from Terry Gregory/Database Manager)

Unknown - Music Hall interior with organ facades flanking the stage (Public Domain photo from the Chicagology website, used with permission from Terry Gregory/Database Manager)

Unknown - Central Music Hall exterior (1899 Central Music Hall flyer image/Database Manager)

Unknown - Music Hall interior (1891 illustration from The Presto, July 11, 1891 as reprinted in The Tracker, Vol. 28, No. 2, 1984, pg. 27/Database Manager)

Consoles

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Notes

2004-10-30 - The Marshall Field Department Store purchased Central Music Hall in 1900 and demolished the building for store expansion. The organ was moved to St. Martin's R. C. Church in Chicago and rebuilt by the Coburn & Taylor, 1900; it was rebuilt again in the 1902's by the Weiner Bros. and D. S. Wentz eventually provided the instrument with a used Casavant console (Op. 454, 1911, built for Temple Sinai, Chicago.) In 1982, the much-rebuilt organ was sold to Holy Trinity Church in Overland Park, Michigan, which is planning to install it soon. [c. 1982] -Database Manager

2007-12-28 - According to information received from Joel Gary, the organ was installed in Holy Trinity Church, Grand Rapids in the 1980s by David Skinner. It was later broken up and dispersed for parts. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist (Source: The Stopt Diapason, August 1982) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Chicago, Illinois Central Music Hall Johnson & Son, Opus 543, 1880 OHS ID: 10463 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ GREAT pipes mat'l SWELL pipes mat'l ACCESSORY STOPS 16 Open Diapason......61 metal 16 Bourdon Treble.....49 wood Swell sub-octave coupler 16 Quintaten..........61 wood 16 Bourdon Bass.......12 wood Swell to Great coupler 8 Open Diapason......61 metal 8 Open Diapason......61 metal Swell to Solo coupler 8 Viola da Gamba.....61 metal 8 Salicional.........61 metal Solo to Great coupler 8 Viola d'Amour......61 metal 8 Dolcissimo.........61 metal Solo to Pedale coupler 8 Doppel Floete......61 wood 8 Voix Celeste.......61 metal Great to Pedale coupler 4 Octave.............61 metal 8 Quintadena.........61 metal Swell to Pedale coupler 4 Flute Harmonique...61 metal 8 Stopped Diapason...61 wood Tremolo (to Swell) 2-2/3 Twelfth............61 metal 4 Octave.............61 metal 2 Fifteenth..........61 metal 4 Traverse Flute.....61 wood PEDAL MOVEMENTS Mixture III.......183 metal 4 Violin.............61 metal 1. Full Organ Scharf IV.........244 metal 2 Flautino...........61 metal 2. Forte Great 8 Trumpet............61 metal Cymbel V..........305 metal 3. Mezzo Great, double acting 4 Clarion............61 metal 16 Contra Fagotto.....61 metal 4. Piano Great, double acting 8 Cornopean..........61 metal 5. Forte Swell Total Great......1159 pipes 8 Oboe...............61 metal 6. Mezzo Swell, double acting 8 Vox Humana.........61 metal 7. Piano Swell, double acting SOLO (or CHOIR) pipes mat'l 8. Piano Solo, double acting 16 Lieblich Gedeckt...61 wood Total Swell......1220 pipes 9. Forte Solo 8 Geigen Principal...61 metal 10. Forte Pedale 8 Dulciana...........61 metal PEDALE pipes mat'l 11. Piano Pedale, double acting 8 Melodia............61 wood 32 Contra Bourdon.....30 wood 12. Tremulo Reversible 4 Fugara.............61 metal 16 Open Diapason......30 wood 13. Great to Pedale Reversible 4 Flute d'Amour......61 w & m 16 Violone [4]........30 wood 14. Balanced Swell Pedal 2 Piccolo............61 metal 16 Bourdon............30 wood Wind indicator (Patent) 8 Corno di Bassetto..61 metal 8 Violoncello........30 metal 8 Tuba Mirabilis.....61 metal 8 Flute..............30 wood 8 Flute a Pavillon...61 metal 16 Trombone...........30 wood 8 Posaune............30 metal Total Solo........610 pipes Total Pedal.......240 pipes NOTES 1. "The pnuematic motor to be appled to the Great manual and all its couplers; to the Solo manual, and to the lowest twelve keys of the Swell manual; also to the Pedal combination movement." 2. "The organ desk to stand midway between the two parts of the organ, the organist sitting sidewise to the audience." 3. "The displayed pipes on each side are to be tastefully decorated in gold and colors." 4. According to F.R. Webber, 1954, the Pedal Violone 16 was never installed. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ [Received online from T. Daniel Hancock, 2012-10-25]

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