Better Pipe Organ Database

(Carl) Barckhoff Church Organ Co. (1905)

First Congregational Church [now Ypsilanti Performance Space]
218 North Adams Street
Ypsilanti, MI

OHS convention: 1995

Images

1995 - Organ facade and keydesk (Photograph from an archival source: 1995 OHS Handbook, William T. Van Pelt, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

Unknown - Organ at Altar (secondwavemedia.com/concentrate/features/theypsi0456.aspx, courtesy of Mr J. Veerman (ca. May 2018)/Database Manager)

Consoles

Keydesk

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
18 stops
23 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1995. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Manual offsets & pedal are tubular. Renovated by Ruhland 1974 with some tonal changes. Stop list. -Database Manager

2013-06-16 - Updated through online information from John Speller. -Database Manager

2024-08-02 - The organ still exists and works though it needs repairs. The building is now called the Ypsilanti Performance Space and they are renovating the building to create a concert and event venue. more info ypsi.org. It still has the original water-powered pump which when connected to the City water supply, it powered the blower. Currently disconnected. Information received online from Steve Pierce on 2024-07-31 -Paul R. Marchesano

Stoplist

Bellows Signal. Pedal Movements: 4 composition pedals (missing). Balanced Swell Pedal [Received from John Speller 2013-06-15.] Source: OHS Organ Handbook 1995 1995

Great Open Diapason 8 (metal), Melodia 8 (wood & metal), Viola da Gamba 8 (metal), Dulciana 8 (metal), Principal 4 (metal), Twelfth 3 (metal), Flute d' Amour 4 (wood & metal), Fifteenth 2 (metal)

Swell Bourdon 16 (TC) wood, Stopped Diapason 8 (wood & metal), Salicional 8 (metal), Aeolina 8 (metal), Fugara 4 (metal), Nazard 3 (metal), Flute Harmonic 4 (wood & metal), Oboe & Bassoon 8 (metal), Tremolo

Pedal Sub Bass 16 (wood), Flute 8 (wood)

Swell to Great 8 (on/off piston), Great to Pedal 8 (on/off piston), Swell to Pedal 8 (on/off piston)