St. Thomas Episcopal Church
16 E. Van Buren Street
Battle Creek, MI
Images
2010-08-17 - Nave Interior, Altar, and Pipe Facade (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)
2010-08-17 - Nave Interior, Altar, and Pipe Facade (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)
2010-08-17 - Altar and Pipe Facade (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)
2010-08-17 - Pipe Facades (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)
2010-08-17 - Console (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)
2010-08-17 - Console (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)
2010-08-17 - Nave and Balcony (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)
2010-08-17 - Echo Chamber Grillework (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)
2010-08-17 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Movable Console
- 2 manuals
- 14 stops
- 21 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 (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
- 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 toe pistons
Notes
2006-05-10 - 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> Extant; slightly altered; console moved.</i> -Database Manager
2010-08-19 - Updated through online information from Chad Boorsma. -- Ken Holden made the console movable. Also, a light has been added to the music rack. Otherwise the instrument is original as installed in 1929. The Echo division speaks from the northeast side of the gallery. -Database Manager
2017-06-28 - Updated by John Speller, who has heard or played the organ.<br>
Old photographs in church show that the casework was retained from the previous organ -- Wm. Johnson & Son Op. 524 of 1879, though the facade pipes have lost their stencils and are now bronzed. -Database Manager
2022-05-04 - The instrument was contracted through the Chicago Representative Mr. William Zeuch. The two rank Echo division in the back was paid for by Mr. W. K. Kellogg of Battle Creek for the sum of $2,500.00. -Roman Lizak
Stoplist
Stoplist from <i>The Erzähler</i>, August 1993, written by Jonathan Ambrosino Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Battle Creek, Michigan
St. Thomas Episcopal Church
Skinner Organ Company Opus 788 1929 2 manuals, 14 stops, 16 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN (5" wind) SWELL ORGAN (6" wind)
16' Bourdon 17 PED 8' Diapason 73
8' Diapason 73 8' Rohrflöte 73
8' Rohrflöte SW 8' Salicional 73
8' Salicional SW 8' Voix Celeste 73
8' Voix Celeste SW 4' Flute Triangulaire 73
4' Octave 73 III Mixture 183
4' Flute SW 8' Trumpet 73
8' Oboe 73
ECHO ORGAN (5" wind) Tremolo
8' Chimney Flute 61
8' Vox Humana 61 PEDAL ORGAN (5" wind)
Tremolo 16' Diapason 32
Chimes 25 tubes 16' Bourdon 32
8' Octave 12
8' Gedeckt 12
Chimes EC
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2016-07-08]
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