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Holtkamp Organ Co. Opus 1794 (1965)

Pennsylvania State University: Music Building
University Park, PA

Images


2017-04-04 - Dedication plaque in the lobby outside of the Esber recital hall. (Photograph by Mark Dennis/Database Manager)

2012-10-25 - Console and Pipework (Photograph by David H. Fox/Database Manager)

2012-10-25 - Stopkeys and Manuals (Photograph by David H. Fox/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main


Notes

2006-05-18 - Identified through online information from Mark Dennis. -Database Manager

2014-10-20 - Updated through online information from Sarah Johnson. -Database Manager

2017-05-04 - Updated by William M. Worden, listing this website as a source of information: https://www.govdeals.com/index.cfm?fa=Main.Item&itemid=198&acctid=3821. Offered for sale at auction on the website listed. -Database Manager

2017-05-04 - Updated by William M. Worden, who gave this as the source of the information: Observation from the database. <br> <br>The photos shown with this organ do not appear to be of this organ. For example, the photo showing the stop tabs on the console gives a stoplist that does not match the much larger stoplist given on the linked page from the college website and the photo taken from the side of the console in a corner with cement block walls does not match the photo of the organ on the college website. Could these photos be of the practice organ built by Holtkamp for the same institution? I admit the dates don't seem to match, since the practice organ is shown to have been moved to a residence in 2010 and the photos are dated 2012. -Database Manager

2017-05-04 - Updated by David Ruler, who has heard or played the organ.<br> Organ is up for Auction on 5.1.17 and buyer to remove no later than August 1, 2017 Additional photos are found in the auction link above: https://www.govdeals.com/index.cfm?fa=Main.Item&itemid=198&acctid=3821 -Database Manager

2017-05-04 - Updated by Mark Dennis, who has heard or played the organ. -Database Manager


Stoplist

Original document from Mark Dennis. Source: https://www.govdeals.com/index.cfm?fa=Main.Item&itemid=198&acctid=3821 2017-04-07

Great - 15 ranks

 Quintadena 16’			61 pipes
 Principal 8’			61 pipes
 Gedackt 8’ (metal)		61 pipes
 Octave 4’				61 pipes
 Spitzflöte 4’			61 pipes
 Doublette 2’			61 pipes	
 Mixture IV			   244 pipes
 Scharf III			   183 pipes
 Dulzian 16’			61 pipes
 Trumpet 8’				61 pipes
 Pos. to Gt 16’
 Pos. to Gt

 Positiv - 12 ranks
 
 Copula 8’				61 pipes
 Principal 4’			61 pipes
 Rohrflöte 4’			61 pipes
 Octave 2’				61 pipes
 Blockflöte 2’			61 pipes
 Sesquialtera 2 2/3’   122 pipes
 Quinta 1 1/3’			61 pipes
 Fourniture III		   183 pipes
 Cromorne 8’			61 pipes
 Tremulo 
 
 Pedal - 11 ranks
 
 Principal 16’			32 pipes
 Sub Bass 16’			32 pipes
 Quintadena 16’ (Gt.)	--
 Octave 8’				32 pipes
 Gedackt 8’ (wood)		32 pipes
 Choral Bass 4’			32 pipes
 Mixture IV			   128 pipes
 Fagott 16’				32 pipes
 Dulzian 16’ (Gt.)		--
 Schalmey 4’			32 pipes
 Gt. to Ped.
 Pos. to Ped.
 
 28 stops; 37 ranks
 The organ is unenclosed
 Compass: Manuals – 61 notes; Pedal – 32 notes (AGO standard pedalboard)
 Key action: electromagnetic Combination system: solid state with 99 levels of memory
 (added in 2005 by the S.D.G. Organ Co., Millersville, PA) 10 general pistons (thumb and toe)
 4 pistons each for the Great (thumb), Positiv (thumb), 

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