St. Luke's Episcopal Church
3736 Montrose Road
Birmingham: Mountain Brook, AL
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
Images
2022-01-10 - Exposed pipes (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2022-01-10 - Church interior to front (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2022-01-10 - Church interior to rear and organ (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
1986-12-27 - Church exterior (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
1986-12-27 - Rear gallery with exposed pipe display (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
1986-12-27 - Exposed pipework and 8' Fanfara (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Non-Traditional Style, As Consoles by Holtkamp, Schlicker, et al
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
- 3 manuals
- 37 stops
- 4 divisions
- Key action Type: Electrical
- Stop action Type: Electrical
- Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
- Manual compass: 61 notes
- Pedal compass: 32 notes
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Has crescendo
- Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has combination toe pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2005-04-11 - Positiv chests did not extend full compass -- 56 notes only. Keyboard 61 notes. -Database Manager
2005-04-11 - Walter Holtkamp Sr.'s last design, unfinished on the drawing board when he died in 1962. Instrument builder and installed under direstion of Walter Holtkamp, Jr. Fanfare Trumpet (en chamade) added in 1980 by Holtkamp Organ Co. -Database Manager
2005-04-11 - Swell Trumpet and 4' Flute added in 1990 by Howard Best. -Database Manager
2024-04-17 - Organ is being replaced in 2025 with French Symphonic Casavant. Current Holtkamp removed June 2024 and given to Roseville Lutheran in Minnesota; J. F. Nordlie will combine selected pipework from the Holtkamp and selected pipework from Roseville Lutheran's 1978 3/22 Moller, along with new pipework, for Nordlie's new 3/57 Op. 63, with a 2024 completion date.
Information from:
Jamie McLemore on 2024-03-29 -Paul R. Marchesano
Stoplist
Typed stoplist from Jim Stettner Source: Stoplist copied from the console Date not recorded
Mountain Brook, Alabama
St. Luke's Episcopal Church
Holtkamp Job 1762 1963
GREAT SWELL (Expressive)
16 Quintadena 61 8 Chimney Flute 61
8 Principal 61 8 Gamba 61
8 Gedackt 61 8 Voix Celeste (FF) 56
4 Octave 61 8 Flauto Dolce 61
4 Spitzflöte 61 8 Flute Celeste [prep] –-
2 Doublette 61 4 Gemshorn 61
1-1/3 Quinte 61 2 Octave 61
IV Mixture 244 III Cymbal 183
16 Dulzian 61 8 Trompette [prep] –-
8 Trumpet 61 8 Fagott 61
4 Clarion 61
Tremolo
PEDAL
16 Principal 32 Swell to Swell 16'
16 Soubasse 32 Swell to Swell 4'
16 Quintadena (Gt) –-
8 Octave 32
8 Gedackt 32 POSITIV
4 Choral Bass 32 8 Copula 56
4 Hohlflöte 32 4 Prestant 56
IV Mixture 128 4 Rohrflöte 56
16 Posaune 32 2-2/3 Nazard 56
16 Dulzian (Gt) –- 2 Octave 56
8 Trumpet 12 2 Nachthorn 56
4 Schalmey 32 1-3/5 Tierce 56
III Fourniture 168
8 Fanfara [1980] 56
8 Cromorne 56
[Received from Jim Stettner February 19, 2017]
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