Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2004-10-30 - Werkmeister III temperament. -Database Manager
2005-09-09 - Online update from Timothy Tikker -- The church was recently sold, and the organ is now being offered for sale. -Database Manager
2008-06-11 - Updated through online information from Robert Duris. -- This organ is no longer at Ashland Avenue Baptist. It was sold to a university somewhere in California. Ashland Ave. does not meet anymore at this building. -Database Manager
2010-07-20 - Updated through online information from Ken Lyon. -- "on loan to St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church in Rochester, NY until later new installation at California State Univ, Sonoma." -Database Manager
2014-08-20 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ is being relocated once again. It will be removed by Taylor & Boody in January, 2014, restored, and in June - re-installed in the new concert hall (Schroeder Hall) at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California. -Database Manager
From builder's old website, via Central Lutheran Church, Eugene, Oregon web site Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Toledo, Ohio
Ashland Avenue Baptist Church
John Brombaugh & Associates Opus 9 1972 2 manuals, 19 stops, 28 ranks
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I. GREAT (56 notes: C - g ''')
16' Bourdon +
8' Præstant I-II in discant from fis'
8' Holpijp +
4' Octave
4' Spielflöte
2' Octave
III-X Mixture
8' Trumpet *
II. RUCKPOSITIVE (56 notes: C - g ''')
8' Gedackt
4' Præstant +
4' Rohrflöte +
2' Octave
1 1/3' Quinte
II Sesquialtera
8' Musette
PEDAL (30 notes: C - f')
16' Subbass +
8' Octave +
16' Fagot
8' Trumpet *
COUPLERS, ETC.
Great - Pedal
Positive - Pedal
Positive - Great
Tremulant
+ Some pipes common with another stop
* Great stop playable in Pedal by transmission
Mechanical key action, suspended; mechanical stop action; attached keydesk
Metal flue pipes of high lead alloys, hammered and adjusted for vocale sound
Cone tuning for small flue pipes; soldered hats for stopped metal pipes;
reeds easily tunable by organist
Solid wood slider windchests and wind system with large wedge bellows;
no stabilizers required
Windpressure: 90 mm water column
Originally in Werckmeister III, Builder retuned the organ to Kellner's
"Bach" temperament in 1995.
The freestanding casework of solid red oak to match the church's interior
woodwork is architecturally based on the Dutch Renaissance organs in Rhenen
and Brouwershaven; the organ is placed in the gallery located above the
baptistry at the front corner of the nave of the "Akron plan" styled church
built in the 1890s.
Of special interest is the Great Mixture that is based on the design concept
of the ancient Dutch Blockwerk upperwork. Playing of the Ruckpositive from
the upper keyboard follows a precedent found in some historic organs in
Province Groningen, the Netherlands.
Dedication on 15 November 1972, played by Susan Craig, organist of the church,
with additional dedicatory recitals played in January and May 1973 by Vernon
Wolcott, Prof of Organ at BGSU, and David S. Boe, Prof of Organ at Oberlin
Conservatory of Music and advisor to the church for this project.
This is the first instrument built following Brombaugh's comprehensive study
of many historic European organs in 1971 from support by a grant from the
Ford Foundation.
[Received from Steven E. Lawson August 19, 2014]
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