OHS convention: 2007
2004-10-30 - Builder's Nameplate is not present, but the chest is stenciled with the name of the builder. -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Indianapolis booklet, p. 40. -Database Manager
2007-07-15 - OHS 2007 Convention venue -Database Manager
2023-03-01 - Another improvement made during Meissner's pastorate was the acquisition of the present pipe organ in the rear gallery, supplanting a melodeon. The instrument was installed in 1893 by Louis H. Van Dinter of Mishawaka, Indiana, at a cost of $3,000. The oak facade of Gothic ornament includes twenty-seven stenciled pipes, of which eighteen speak and nine are dummies. The organ is situated beneath an arch that forms the sides of the organ proper. The organ's platform is twelve feet wide at the front, though behind the pillars it is twenty-nine feet wide. A water motor originally provided wind to the organ, and parts of this apparatus were still within the case in the early 1980s. The water-motor knob has since been nude to operate an electric blower. Manual compass is fifty-eight notes (CC-a3); pedal compass (flat pedalboard) is twenty-five notes (CC-c1) . The organ's diamond-shape nameplate has been missing for decades; however, "Louis H. Van Dinter/Builder/Mishawaka, Ind." has been found stenciled on the back board of the very large manual chest. The manual divisions are on one level, the Swell behind tlie Great, enclosed in one box. -- *2007 OHS Atlas* -Paul R. Marchesano
Specification from <i>2007 Organ Atlas: Central Indiana Region</i> Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Peru, Indiana
St. Charles Borromeo Roman Catholic Church
Luis H. Van Dinter 1893 2 manuals, 19 stops, 19 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN (enc. with SW) SWELL ORGAN
8' Open Diapason 58 a 16' Bourdon (TC) 46
8' Doppel Flute 58 8' Violin Principal 46 c
8' Gambe 58 8' Melodia 58
8' Dolce 46 b 8' Dulciana 58
4' Principal 58 4' Fugara 58
4' Flute Harmonic 58 4' Rohr Flute 58
2 2/3' Twelfth 58 2' Piccolo 58
2' Fifteenth 58 8' Oboe & Bassoon 58
8' Trumpet 58
COUPLERS
PEDAL ORGAN Great to Pedal
16' Double Open Diapason 25 Swell to Pedal
16' Bourdon 25 Swell to Great
a 18 pipes in facade
b 1-12 common with Gamba
c 1-12 common with Melodia
ACCESSORIES
Tremulant (entire organ)
Expression shoe
Water Motor (operates electric blower)
PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Great Forte (all Great stops except 8' Trumpet)
Great Piano (retires all Great stops except Doppel Flute,
Gambe, and Dolce)
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2015-07-11]
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