Better Pipe Organ Database

Gabriel Kney & Co. (1973)

St. Aloysius Roman Catholic Church
1234 Washington Boulevard
Detroit, MI

Images

2022-10-12 - Church interior to front, showing the chambers where the 1930 Kilgen was installed (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2020-10-14 - Church interior, showing the organ and the two upper levels of the church. (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Console position: Detached Keydesk (Mechanical Action)
2 manuals
24 stops
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Electrical
Manual compass: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Computerized/Digital
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1977 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Rear gallery. [There is a 1930 Kilgen Op. 4516 in chancel chambers.] -Database Manager

2010-07-20 - Updated through online information from Tom Nichols. -Database Manager

2013-01-10 - Updated through online information from Gregory Hamilton. -- Organ still there as of 2011 -Database Manager

2018-04-05 - Updated by William M. Worden, who has heard or played the organ. <br> The Kney has swell shades at both the front and the back of the swell box. The organ is slightly off-center in the gallery; the trackers run under the gallery floor and when installation was begun and the floor was opened up to provide runs for the trackers it was discovered that there was a very large reinforced concrete beam dead center under the stepped floor of the gallery. The organ had to be moved slightly to one side so the trackers would pass next to that beam. As originally planned, the organ was to have been placed in the basement well of this unusual church, against the liturgical east wall of the well, where it would presumably speak into both the main floor and the balcony. The 1930 Kilgen formerly in the chambers at either side of the chancel has been gone from about the time that the Kney was installed. New Syndyne combination action c. 2013 by Renaissance Pipe Organ, Ann Arbor. -Database Manager

2023-03-28 - The unusual three-level design of the church was dictated by the 100'x72' lot size; the church comfortably seats around 2,000. -Jeff Scofield

Stoplist

Digital scan of a published document, courtesy of William M. Worden. Source: 1977 OHS convention booklet 2018-04-02

Unsupported filetype pdf, view here.

Typed stoplist Source: Adapted from William M. Worden Date not recorded

Detroit, Michigan
St. Aloysius Roman Catholic Church

Gabriel Kney   1973                   2 manuals, 24 stops, 33 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN                      SWELL ORGAN
      8' Principal         51 *        8' Gedeckt           56
      8' Rohrflöte         56          8' Salicional        56
      4' Octave            56          8' Celeste (TC)      44
      4' Quintadena        56          4' Principal         56
      2' Blockflöte        56          4' Blockflöte        56
  1 3/5' Terz              56          2' Octave            56
  1 1/3' Mixture IV       224      1 1/3' Quint             56
      8' Trumpet           56          1' Mixture IV       224
                                      16' Dulzian           56
         PEDAL ORGAN                   8' Krummhorn         56
     16' Subbass           32             Tremulant
      8' Principalflöte    32
      4' Choralbass        32             COUPLERS
      4' Koppelflöte       32             Swell to Great
  2 2/3' Mixture IV       128             Great to Pedal
     16' Posaune           32             Swell to Pedal

         Six general combinations
         General cancel
         Balanced Swell Pedal

         * 1-5 common with 8' Rohrflöte


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2018-04-03]