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Geo. Kilgen & Son, Inc. Opus 1669 (1916)

St. Paul Episcopal Church, Carondelet: Church
6518 Michigan Avenue
St. Louis, MO

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Detached Keydesk (Mechanical Action)
2 manuals
9 stops
Key action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Adjustable Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

2006-10-11 - Great 4 ranks, Swell 1 rank plus 3 ranks duplexed to Great, Pedal 1 rank. Replaced or rebuilt by Reuter about 1961. -Database Manager

2012-07-17 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

2012-08-15 - Updated through online information from Jack Foshage. -- This instrument was damaged by termites and was junked. It was replaced by Reuter opus 1311 in 1961. -Database Manager

Stoplist

kilgen archives at SLPO Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

updated 08-Aug-2012
St.Louis, Missouri
St' Paul's Episcopal Churrch, Carondelet
Kilgen opus 1669 1916

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

                           COMBINATION PISTONS

                   1-2   GREAT & PEDAL  adjustable moving stop key

                   1-2   SWELL & PEDAL     "         "      "   "


                            PEDAL MOVEMENTS

                         GREAT to PEDAL Reversible

                       Balanced Swell Pedal (entire organ in box)

                             ACCESSORIES
                          Wind indicator
                          AGO spec30 note pedalboard
                   Detached AGO stopkey 61 note console    Kilgen Duplex Tublar-pneumatic action

        
                            PIPE SOURCES
                         
                        8' Diapason          61 pipes
                        8' Salicional        61 pipes
                        8' Melodia           61 pipes
                        8' Dulciana          61 pipes
                        4' Flute Harmonic    61 pipes  (Kilgen records shows "4' Flute Harmonic,"
                       16' Bourdon           30 pipes  console in 1959 shows "4' Flure d'Amore.")



This final update comes from Kilgen archives hard copy records at St. Louis Pipe Organ with many thanks to Mrs. Alan Nagel for her kind efforts. 
Jack Foshage 

              

 [Received from Jack Foshage 2012-08-10.]

Information from Reuter Bus Rep. Frank Wagner contained in report to St. Paul's rector, 1959 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

St. Louis, Missouri
St. Paul Episcopal Church

Kilgen   1917

GREAT: 8' Open Diapason 61 pipes
       8' Dulciana      61 notes
       8' Melodia       61 notes
       4' Flute D'Amour 61 notes 
      
      16' Swell to Great
       8' Swell to Great
       4' Swell to great

SWELL: 8'Salicional     61 notes
       8' Melodia       duplexed
       8' Dulciana      duplexed
       4' Flute D'Amore duplexed

       Tremolo

PEDAL: 16' Bourdon      30 notes

        8' Great to Pedal
        8' Swell to Pedal 

Opus # still unknown working to find it in the records of Allen Nagel at St. Louis Pipe Organ 

 [Received from Jack Foshage 2012-06-28.]

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#21105 - Reuter Organ Co. Opus 1311 (1961)