St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church
423 First Street N.W.
Grand Rapids, MI
Images
2010-04-02 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)
2010-04-02 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)
2009-12-21 - Interior from rear gallery (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)
2009-12-21 - Altar and front (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)
2009-12-21 - Organ in rear gallery (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)
2009-12-21 - Case close-up (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)
2009-12-21 - Console from right (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)
2009-12-21 - Console from left (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)
2009-12-21 - Console (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)
2009-12-21 - 1864 Garret House case (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
- 3 manuals
- 19 stops
- 23 registers
- 4 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 (Details Unknown)
- 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 coupler thumb pistons
- Has coupler toe pistons
- Has tutti thumb pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2006-04-21 - 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> No information.</i> -Database Manager
2009-07-02 - Updated through online information from Chad Boorsma. -Database Manager
2009-12-22 - Updated through online information from Chad Boorsma. -- The organ was donated as a memorial for Philip Fritz by his family. It is housed in a case that was part of the church's previous organ (an instrument designed by Garret House and purchased from Notre Dame University in 1876). During the 1970's, the Skinner organ went through a semi-restoration and seven new stops were added by the C. V. Barden Company of Kalamazoo. In late 1991, Schneider Piano and Pipe Organ Company of Okemos, Michigan, restored the organ and removed all the ranks added in the 1970's renovation except for the 16' Dulciana in the pedal. R. A. Colby also restored the console, including a new relay system. -Database Manager
2009-12-24 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Housed inside the retained case of the previous used, 1864 Garrett House instrument. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Stoplist from <i>The Diapason</i>, March 1928 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Grand Rapids, Michigan
St. Mary's Catholic Church
Skinner Organ Company Opus 686 1928 3 manuals, 19 stops, 22 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN SWELL ORGAN
16' Bourdon 17 PED 8' Geigen Principal 73
8' Diapason 73 8' Rohrflöte 73
8' Clarabella 73 8' Salicional 73
4' Octave 73 8' Voix Celeste 73
II Grave Mixture 122 4' Octave Geigen 73
III Mixture 183
CHOIR ORGAN 16' Contra Oboe 73
8' Concert Flute 73 8' Trumpet 73
8' Dulciana 73 8' Oboe 73
4' Flute Triangulaire 73 Tremolo
8' Corno di Bassetto 73
Tremolo PEDAL ORGAN
16' Diapason (bearded) 32
16' Bourdon 32
8' Octave 12
8' Gedeckt 12
16' Contra Oboe SW
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2016-07-07]
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