Better Pipe Organ Database

Granville Wood & Son (1889)

Trumbull Avenue Presbyterian / Pilgrim Church of Bethel Ministries
1435 Brainard Street
Detroit, MI

OHS convention: 1995

Images

Unknown - Organ Facade (Photo from Pinterest, courtesy of Andrew Clark (October 2018)/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
26 stops
30 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1995 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Building was Trumbull Avenue Presbyterian. -Database Manager

2013-06-16 - Updated through online information from John Speller. -Database Manager

2020-09-09 - The Pilgrim congregation collapsed after the death of it founder. As of September, 2020, the building is for sale and essentially abandoned. The organ must be considered at risk.+ -William M. Worden

Stoplist

OHS Organ Handbook 1995 (Lower Michigan), p. 123. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Trumbull Avenue Presbyterian / Pilgrim Church of Bethel Ministries, Detroit, Michigan

G. Wood & Son Co., Northville, Michigan, 1889

Great:

16'     Double Open Diapason          58w&m
8'      Open Diapason                 58m
8'      Melodia                       58w
8'      Viola di Gamba                58m
8'      Dulciana                      58m
4'      Octave                        58m
4'      Flute d' Amour                58w&m
2 2/3'  Twelfth                       58m
2'      Fifteenth                     58m
        Mixture III                  174m
8'      Trumpet                       58m

Swell: (enclosed)

16'     Bourdon Treble [TC]           46w
16'     Bourdon Bass                  12w
8'      Open Diapason                 58m
8'      Stopped Diapason              58w&m
8'      Salicional                    58m
8'      Aeoline                       58m
4'      Violina                       58m
4'      Flute Harmonic                58m
2'      Flautino                      58m
        Dolce Cornet III             174m
8'      Cornopean                     58m
8'      Oboe & Bassoon                58m

Pedal:

16'     Double Open Diapason          27w
16'     Bourdon                       27w
8'      Violoncello                   27m

Couplers:

        Swell to Great
        Great to Pedal
        Swell to Pedal

        Blower's Signal
        Pedal Check

Pedal Movements:

        4 unlabelled composition pedals
          Gr. piano, forte
          Sw. piano, forte
        Great to Pedal (reversible)

        Balanced Swell Pedal
             

 [Received from John Speller 2013-06-15.]

Documents

(1889-10-26) An Organ Recital Detroit Free Press, October 26, 1889, page 5 -William M. Worden