Better Pipe Organ Database

Estey Organ Co. Opus 2246 (1923)

Metropolitan Methodist Church: Kresge Hall
8000 Woodward Ave.
Detroit, MI

Images

2014-01-22 - 'Luminous' Console (Photograph by Timothy Tikker/Database Manager)

2014-01-22 - Console (Photograph by Timothy Tikker/Database Manager)

2014-01-22 - Stop Buttons (Photograph by Timothy Tikker/Database Manager)

2014-01-22 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by Timothy Tikker/Database Manager)

2014-01-22 - General Combination Pistons (Photograph by Timothy Tikker/Database Manager)

2014-01-22 - Pedalboard and Swell Pedals (Photograph by Timothy Tikker/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Movable Console
2 manuals
14 stops
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Push-Button Stop Controls/Luminous Pistons
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2007-08-12 - Identified through on-line information from Douglas W. Craw. -Database Manager

2007-10-15 - Update through information from James R. Stettner -- Estey records the name of the church as "North Woodward Methodist Episcopal," one of the earlier congregations of Metropolitan Methodist. -Database Manager

2010-10-24 - Updated through online information from Ray Ahrens. -Database Manager

2014-02-17 - Updated through online information from Timothy Tikker. -- Console is of the "cash register" stop control type. General combinations are located in a group at the left side of the stop key jamb. There is a hitch-down sforzando pedal to the right of the crescendo pedal, and a Great to Pedal toe stud reversible -Database Manager

2014-02-20 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

2016-04-30 - Updated through online information from Craig Morrison. <br>Regarding the church's name: North Woodward Church stood two blocks north, from 1906 until in burned in 1916. After World War I the congregation built its present building at 8000 Woodward. During the course of construction it changed its name from North Woodward Methodist to Metropolitan Methodist. The present building opened on January 22, 1926. The point of this long comment is that the Estey instrument never was located in North Woodward Church, but always in Metropolitan. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from console January 2014 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Detroit, Michigan
Kresge Hall, Metropolitan United Methodist Church

Estey Organ Company, 1923, opus 2246
Sold & Installed by Lyon & Healy


GREAT

  8' Diap.
  8' Mel.
  8' Dul.
  4' Flute
     Unison Off
  4' Gt. to Gt.
 16' Sw. to Gt.
  8' Sw. to Gt.
  4' Sw. to Gt.


SWELL 

 16' Bourd.
  8' Diap.
  8' St. Diap.
  8' Sal.
  8' Aeol.
  4' Flute
  8' Oboe
  8' Vox h.
     Tremo.
 16' Sw. to Sw.
     Unison Off
  4' Sw. to Sw.


PEDAL

 16' Bourd.
 16' Gedeckt
  8' Gt. to Ped.
  8' Sw. to Ped.
  4' Ped. to Ped.

Stops lettered in black, couplers and tremolo in red; "cash-register" stop keys

8 general combinations, thumb only, at far left on stop jamb
4 Great combinations, thumb, under Great manual
4 Swell combinations, thumb under Swell manual
set, thumb, at left under Great
cancel, thumb, at right under Great

Gr. to Pedal reversible toe stud
Swell expression
Crescendo pedal
Sforz. hitch-down pedal

 [Received from Timothy Tikker 2014-02-17.]

Websites

The Rice and Kresge Pipe organs of Metropolitan - Slide show (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)