Better Pipe Organ Database

Dobson Pipe Organ Builders (1994)

First Presbyterian Church: Sanctuary
111 Capital Ave. NE
Battle Creek, MI

Images

2022-09-14 - Chancel and organ case (Photograph by J Granger & Associates, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2010-08-17 - Skinner Facade (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-08-17 - Sanctuary Interior and Chancel (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 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Movable Console
3 manuals
56 stops
4 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Balanced Tracker)
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Computerized/Digital
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2007-09-05 - Identified through online information from Trevor Dodd. -- The organ includes a couple or ranks left from the previous organ (Skinner op. 720) -Database Manager

2009-04-16 - Updated through online information from John Ourensma. -Database Manager

2009-09-27 - Updated through online information from John Ourensma. -Database Manager

2010-08-21 - Updated through online information from Chad Boorsma. -- The basic layout of the organ, with the Great and Pedal in the left chamber and Swell over Choir in the right, is from the Skinner organ. Nine stops still retain pipes from the Skinner organ, and the Skinner facade also remains. The organ also includes the original blower, the original tremolos and swell engines, the original framing and swell fronts, the 1979 Pedal windchest, static reservoirs and metal windlines, and nearly all pipework from the previous instrument. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from builder's website Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Battle Creek, Michigan
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Dobson Pipe Organ Builders    1994     61 ranks
_________________________________________________________

GREAT:
   16' Violone          1-32 old*, 33-61 new
    8' Principal        1-14 new, 15-61 old
    8' Bourdon          1-14 new, 15-61 old
    8' Harmonic Flute   1-12 from Bourdon, 13-61 new
    4' Octave           1-61 new
    4' Nachthorn        1-61 new
2 2/3' Twelfth          1-61 new
    2' Fifteenth        1-61 new
1 3/5' Seventeenth      1-61 new
    V  Cornet           f18-c49 mounted, 96 old, 64 new
   IV  Mixture          244 old
   16' Contra Trumpet   1-56 old, 57-85 new
    8' Trumpet          1-61 new
    4' Clarion          from Contra Trumpet
    8' Tuba             from Choir

SWELL: (expressive)
   16' Bourdon          1-61 old
    8' Geigen Principal 1-61 old *
    8' Chimney Flute    1-61 old *
    8' Salicional       1-8 new, 9-61 old *
    8' Celeste          1-7 new, 8-61 old *
    4' Octave           1-61 old
    4' Flute            1-61 old *
    2' Octavin          1-61 old
    V  Mixture          209 old*, 96 new
   16' Bassoon          1-61 old
    8' Trumpet          1-61 old
    8' Oboe             1-61 old *
       Tremulant

CHOIR: (expressive)
    8' Gedeckt          1-61 old
    8' Gemshorn         1-61 new
    8' Celeste [FF]     6-61 new
    4' Spitz Principal  1-61 old
    4' Chimney Flute    1-61 old
2 2/3' Nazard           1-61 old
    2' Octave           1-61 new
    2' Recorder         1-61 old
1 3/5' Tierce           1-61 old
   IV  Sharp Mixture    244 new
    8' Clarinet         1-61 old *
       Tremulant
       Chimes           22-42 old *
    8' Bombarde         1-61 new, hooded
       Choir Separation

PEDAL:
   32' Resultant        from Contrabass and Subbass
   16' Open Wood        1-32 old
   16' Contrabass       from Great
   16' Subbass          1-44 old
    8' Octave           1-44 old
    8' Bourdon          from Subbass
    4' Choralbass       from Octave
    4' Flute            1-32 old
   IV  Mixture          128 old
   32' Contra Bassoon   1-12 new, from Great
   16' Trombone         1-44 new
   16' Bassoon          from Great
    8' Trumpet          from Trombone
    4' Clarion          from Great
    4' Schalmei         1-32 new
    8' Tuba             from Choir

    * pipes from the original 1928 Skinner organ

[Received online from Chad Boorsma • August 20, 2010]

Websites

Dobson Pipe Organ Builders, Ltd. - Instruments [Battle Creeek page] - Photograph, description and history, original and new stoplists (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#7107†* - Skinner Organ Co. Opus 720 (1928)