Central United Methodist Church: Sanctuary
23 E. Adams Ave.
Detroit, MI
Images
2022-09-25 - Console (Photograph by Matthew Kwiecien/Brad Engelland)
2018-10-12 - Console (Photograph by René Troost, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2018-10-12 - Church interior, console angle (Photograph by René Troost, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2018-10-12 - Church interior (Photograph by René Troost, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
1994-05-19 - Sanctuary chancel and console (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
1994-05-19 - Sanctuary interior and chancel angle (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
- 4 manuals
- 58 stops
- 77 registers
- 8 divisions
- Key action Type: Electrical
- Stop action Type: Electrical
- Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
- Manual compass: 61 notes
- Pedal compass: 32 notes
- Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Combination action: Remote Pneumatic/Mechanical Capture
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has combination toe pistons
- Has coupler thumb pistons
- Has coupler toe pistons
- Has tutti thumb pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2005-12-22 - Identified through information adapted from <i>E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List</i>, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: <br><i> Rebuild of Skinner Opus. 233 (1915). Later restoration work by Ken and Dorothy Holden.</i> -Database Manager
2007-07-31 - Updated through online information from Douglas W. Craw. -Database Manager
2008-07-03 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- 39 new ranks of pipes were added under Op. R-652, as well as a new console -Database Manager
2009-10-12 - Updated through online information from Ray Ahrens. -Database Manager
2012-04-11 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Stoplist copied from the factory specifications Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Detroit, Michigan
Central Methodist Church
Möller Op. R-652 1960 4/68
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This was a rebuild of 1918 Skinner 4/51 Op. 233
New pipework is indicated with an asterisk (*)
GREAT SOLO
16' Bourdon 61 8' Gamba 61
8' Principal 61 * 8' Gamba Celeste 61
8' Bourdon 61 * 16' Tuba 61
8' Erzähler 61 8' Harmonic Trumpet 61
4' Octave 61 8' Tuba 12
4' Rohrflöte 61 * 8' French Horn 61
2 2/3' Twelfth 61 * 8' Orchrestal Oboe 61
2' Fifteenth 61 * 4' Tuba 12
II-IV Fourniture 196 * Tremulant
Tremulant Sub
Unison Off Unison Off
Super Super
Chimes SO Chimes 25
SWELL ANTIPH GREAT (exposed)
16' Bourdon 61 8' Gedeckt 61 *
8' Principal 61 8' Gemshorn 61 *
8' Open Flute 61 4' Principal 61 *
8' Gedeckt 61 III Mixture 183 *
8' Viole 61 Tremulant
8' Viole Celeste 61 Unison Off
8' Aeoline 61
8' Unda Maris 49 ANTIPHONAL SWELL
4' Octave 61 8' Principal 61
4' Flute Ouverte 61 8' Cor de Nuit 61
4' Violina 61 8' Flute Celeste 49
2' Flautino 61 8' Trumpet 61
III Plein Jeu 183 * 8' Vox Humana 61
16' Contra Posaune 61 Tremulant
8' Trumpet 61 * Unison Off
8' Flügelhorn 61
8' Vox Humana 61 ANTIPHONAL PEDAL
4' Clarion 61 * 16' Bourdon 32
Tremulant
Sub PEDAL
Unison Off 32' Diapason -- Resultant
Super 32' Bourdon 12 GT
16' Diapason 32
CHOIR 16' Bourdon GT
16' Gambe 61 16' Gedeckt SW
8' Quintadena 61 16' Gambe CH
8' Concert Flute 61 8' Geigen Principal 32 *
8' Kleine Erzähler II 110 8' Octave 12
4' Koppelflöte 61 * 8' Bourdon GT
2' Principal 61 * 8' Gedeckt SW
II Sesquialtera 122 * 8' Gamba SO
II Zimbel 122 * 4' Geigen Octave 12
8' Clarinet 61 4' Open Flute 32
8' English Horn 61 2' Open Flute 12
Tremulant II Rauschquinte 64 *
Sub 32' Bombarde F/L 12 SO
Unison Off 16' Tuba SO
Super 16' Posaune SW
Harp 61 8' Harmonic Trumpet SO
Celesta 8' Tuba SO
4' Tuba SO
Chimes SO
[Received online from Jeff Scofield April 9, 2012]
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