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Henry Erben (1857)

Images

2005-08-22 - Church Exterior (Photograph by John G. DeMajo/Database Manager)

2005-08-22 - Gallery and Organ Case (Photograph by John G. DeMajo/Database Manager)

2005-08-22 - Church Interior and Altar (Photograph by John G. DeMajo/Database Manager)

2005-08-22 - Altar (Photograph by John G. DeMajo/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

• Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
• Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
• 1 manuals
• 8 stops
• Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
• Stop action Type: Mechanical
• Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
• Manual compass: 56 notes
• Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1997 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Only Erben in LA still in original location. Compass 56/20. Recessed keyboard. -Database Manager

2009-02-16 - Updated through online information from Stephen Hall. -- Photos of the church including one of the organ at this web page. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

St. Michael's R. C., Convent, LA
Henry Erben 1857

Manual (enclosed)
Op. Dia.: (56 OM pipes - stopface not original)
Dulciana (39 OM pipes; signed "G. W. Oslr/Dulci F")
Stopd. Diapason Treble [sic] (18-24 SW, 25-56 chimney flute; #25C signed "1857/John Fackler/
    St  Diapason/2ndScale/C No. 1 Organ/Kerfoot C")
Stop Diapason Bass [sic] (17 SW pipes)
Principal (56 OM pipes - stopface not original; signed "G W O")
Flute (39 OM pipes;  signed "1858/Flute/John Fackler")
Fifteenth (56 OM pipes - stopface not original; pipes farmed "Flageolet"; CC signed "Geo 
    Hammill/No. 1 Organ/Kerfoot"
Hautbois (39 pipes; 18-49 reeds, 50-56 OM)

Pedal (20 keys, no independent pipes; couples to manual)

Hitchdown Swell, horizontal shutters.
2 mechanical pedals, one brings on Principal, Fifteenth and Hautbois, another retires them.

Websites

• St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church, Convent, LA. - Photographs, link to stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)

Other Links

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• View on Pipe Organ Database
• Organ link wheel: -1, +1

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