St. Paul's Episcopal Church
206 Sixth Street
Durant, IA
Images
2018-04-13 - Church exterior; facade (Church Facebook page/Jim Stettner)
2022-12-24 - Church exterior (Church Facebook page [cropped]/Jim Stettner)
2018-12-24 - Nave interior showing organ case at the rear of the nave (Church Facebook page/Jim Stettner)
2022-01-09 - Organ case (Church Facebook page [still capture from video]/Jim Stettner)
2020-01-22 - Organ: service call (Church Facebook page/Jim Stettner)
2020-01-22 - Organ pipework: Pedal 16' Bourdon at left; manual pipework at right (Church Facebook page/Jim Stettner)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
- Console position: Keydesk Attached
- 1 manuals
- 6 stops
- 7 registers
- 2 divisions
- Key action Type: Mechanical (Suspended Tracker)
- 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: No Enclosed Divisions
- Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
- Has combination trundles
Notes
2004-10-30 - From Blessed Sacrament R. C., St. Louis, then to Grace & Peace Fellowship, St. Louis. Moved to this location. -Database Manager
2008-09-09 - Updated through on-line information from Dennis Ungs. -- Organ is regularly maintained and played weekly. Many attempts have been made to secure original Dulciana rank from previous owner in St. Louis, Missouri. Birthday celebration (125--organ probably older) concert and social in 2004. -Database Manager
2013-10-09 - Updated through online information from Richard C Greene. -Database Manager
2021-08-10 - The "gingerbread gothic" steeple and belfry were restored in 1979. In 1981, the pipe organ from Trinity Cathedral was rebuilt and moved to Saint Paul's. It was later replaced for $6,000 in 1985 by the Kilgen organ, which had been built about 1879. -- Wikipedia article on the church -Paul R. Marchesano
Stoplist
Source: 1979 OHS Handbook June 1979
MANUAL (58 notes) Principal (TC) 8 (46 pipes; 9 in case), Dulciana (TC) 8 (46 pipes), Gedackt (TC) 8 (46 pipes; metal Rohrflute from MC to top, stopped wood from TC to MC), Unison Bass 8 (12 pipes; stopped wood), Octave 4 (58 pipes; 8 in case), Fifteenth 2 (58 pipes)
PEDAL (27 notes) Sub Bass 16 (27 pipes; stopped wood)
COMBINATIONS Two unlabelled, single-acting wooden composition pedals
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