Better Pipe Organ Database

Unknown Builder (1988)

Bachman Hebble Funeral Home
223 North Bedford Road
Battle Creek, MI

Images

2013-07-24 - Console (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2013-07-24 - Rocking Tablets and Roll Player (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2013-07-24 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2013-07-24 - Pedal Rocking Tablets (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2013-07-24 - Swell Rocking Tablets (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2013-07-24 - Great Rocking Tablets (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2013-07-24 - Console and Opening to Pipe Chamber Below (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2013-07-24 - Pipe Chamber in basement (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2013-07-24 - Chapel Interior and Chamber Grillework (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2013-07-24 - Building Exterior (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

2 manuals
6 stops
14 registers
2 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo
Has combination thumb pistons

Notes

2008-03-15 - Identified through online information from Trevor Dodd. -- It was originally installed in the funeral home downtown, but then moved to the current building. The organ is installed in the basement and speaks into a small room through a hole in the floor. The console is located in this room. There are grilles between that room and the chapel. Roll player is intact and functional. -Database Manager

2013-07-31 - The organ is currently serviced by Swem Pipe Organ Maintenance, and that might have been the company that moved the organ to this location. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from the console (July 24, 2013) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Battle Creek, Michigan
BACHMAN HEBBLE FUNERAL HOME

The Aeolian Company    Opus 1763     1930
______________________________________________________________________________

Stoplist is in the order of the rocking tablets on the console.

GREAT:                       SWELL:                     PEDAL:
  Tremolo                      Tremolo                    Great to Pedal 8
  Great 4                      Swell 16                   Swell to Pedal 8
  Swell to Great 8             Swell 4              
  Swell to Great 4                                        Flute 16
                                                          Flute 8
EXP. II                      EXP. II       
  Vox Humana 8                 Vox Humana 8
  Oboe Horn 8                  String PP 8
  Cello 8                      String P Vibrato 8

EXP. I                       EXP. I.
  Flute 4                      Flute 4
  Spanish Flute 8              Spanish Flute 8
  Open Diapason 8              Wood Diapason 8

  Harp 8                       Harp 8
  Chimes                       Chimes

[Received online from Chad Boorsma • July 31, 2013]

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#51776†* - The Aeolian Co. Opus 1763 (1930)