Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2005-11-24 - Replaced by E. M. Skinner Opus 234 (1915), retaining the case. -Database Manager
2012-09-15 - Updated through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -- William Horatio Clarke writes in 1877, "A large Three-Manual Organ, containing 60 Draw-Stops, including 10 Pedal Registers, and is supplied with wind by Hydraulic power." This is followed by a testimonal [page (1)] from the church Pastor, Trustee Chair, and Organ Committee Chair. -Database Manager
2023-02-13 - On May 17, 1870, the quarterly conference of the church authorized use of a reed organ in worship. Dr. William L. Heiskell, a local dentist, organized a choir, which he directed for more than twenty years. Heiskell was a member of the committee that selected the first pipe organ for the new church. Wm. H. Clarke & Co. of Indianapolis supplied this instrument, which was inaugurated on Monday evening, June 12, 1876, with an "opening exhibition." The program featured Clarke as organist and the "Harmonic Society" and included selections from Sir Michael Costa's Naaman. The cost of the organ was $10,500. A letter in the Indiana Historical Society Library, dated February 23, 1876, to M.H. Haley of Crawfordsville, Indiana, from Wm. H. Clarke & Co. states that the factory was beginning work on this organ at this time, as it had just finished and shipped an organ to Lima, Ohio. The builder wrote to H.H. Wiser & Co., of Chicago, Illinois, March 21, 1876, inquiring about having two carvings made for this facade, the angels seen today, asking for a price in walnut and for a softer wood. A letter of April 25, 1876, from Wm. H. Clarke & Co. to Reverend C.D. Battiste [?] of Gallipolis, Ohio, notes that the Roberts Park organ was to be the "largest in the west outside of Chicago," with 60 stops [sic] and 2,606 pipes. Research by Michael Friesen notes the organ was shipped in May 1876. The black walnut case was twentythree feet wide and fifteen feet deep. Manual compass was sixty-one notes (CC-c4); pedal compass (flat pedalboard) was thirty notes (CC- £'). -- *2007 OHS Atlas* -Paul R. Marchesano
Specification from <i>2007 Organ Atlas: Central Indiana Region</i> Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Indianapolis, Indiana
Roberts Park Methodist Church
Wm. H. Clarke & Co. 1876 3 manuals, 43 stops, 48 ranks
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GREAT CLAVIER (Manual II) SWELL CLAVIER (Manual III)
16' Teneroon Montre 61 16' Bourdon Bass }
8' Open Diapason 61 16' Bourdon Treble } 61
8' Doppel Flute 61 8' Open Diapason 61
8' Viol di Gamba 61 8' Salicional 61
5 1/3' Dominante [sic] 61 8' Gedeckt Bass }
4' Octave 61 8' Gedeckt Treble } 61
4' Concert Flute 61 4' Principal 61
2 2/3' Nasard 61 4' Violin 61
2' Doblette [sic] 61 4' Flute Harmonique 61
Harmonic Mixture III 183 2 2/3' Gemshorn Quint 61
Acuta Mixture III 183 2' Flageolet 61
8' Trombaphone 61 1 3/5' Tierce 61
Echo Cornet II 122
CHOIR CLAVIER (Manual I) 16' Oboe (TC) 49
8' Geigen Principal 61 8' Trumpet Bass }
8' Stopped Diapason Bass} 8' Trumpet Treble } 61
8' Melodia } 61 Swell Tremolo
8' Dulciana 61
4' Celestina 61 PEDALE CLAVIER
4' Flute d'Amour 61 16' Open Diapason 30
2' Piccolo 61 16' Dolcian [sic] 30
8' Bassoon (bass) } 10 2/3' Quintotophone [sic] 30
8' Clarinet } 61 8' Unison Bass 30
8' Vox Humana 61 8' Violoncello 30
Choir Tremolo 5 1/3' Octave Quint 30
4' Super Octave 30
COUPLERS 4' Flauto 30
Great to Pedale 2' Clarina [sic] 30
Swell to Pedale 16' Trombone 30
Choir to Pedale
Swell to Great ACCESSORIES
Choir to Great Great to Pedal Reversible
Swell to Choir Balanced Pedal - Swell
Pedale Separation Balanced Pedal - Vox Humana
Pedale Check
COMBINATION PEDALS Motor Major (gas engine)
Pedale Piano Motor Minor (bellows signal)
Pedale Forte
Swell Piano
Swell Forte
Chorus Forte
Chorus Piano
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2015-07-14]
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