Better Pipe Organ Database

White Organ Co.

St. Paul Lutheran Church
349 Capital Avenue NE
Battle Creek, MI

Images

2013-07-24 - Great Pipe Display (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2013-07-24 - Nave, Balcony, and Pipe Display (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2013-07-24 - Balcony and Pipe Display (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2013-07-24 - Choir/Positiv Pipes, Sanctuary Interior, and Chancel (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

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

2013-07-24 - Fan Vent and Drawknob (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2013-07-24 - Pedalboard, Swell Pedals, and Toe Studs (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2013-07-24 - Coupler Rocking Tablets and Crescendo Lights (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2013-07-24 - Choir/Positiv Pipe Display (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

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

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
27 stops
44 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
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
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2008-03-29 - Identified through online information from Trevor Dodd. -Database Manager

2013-08-01 - The organ is in a 1947 building, but this is not the church's first pipe organ in this building. However, this instrument does include pipes from the previous organ. The Great is exposed in the center, the Swell is enclosed on the left and right (with separate expression pedals, although one is labeled Choir), and the Choir/Positiv is exposed on the rail. This division is labeled as Choir above the drawknobs and on the rocking tablet couplers. However, it is labeled as Positiv on the unison drawknob couplers. -Database Manager

2013-08-03 - The console was originally built by the Pels Organ Company. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

Battle Creek, Michigan
SAINT PAUL LUTHERAN CHURCH

White Organ Company     
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GREAT:                              SWELL:
   8' Principal 61                     16' Pommer 12
   8' Gemshorn 61                       8' Principal 61
   8' Hohlflöte 61                      8' Holzgedeckt 61
   4' Octave 61                         8' Viole 61
   4' Spitzflöte 61                     8' Celeste 49 [TC]
   2' Super Octave 61                   4' Octave 61
  IV  Mixture 244                       4' Gedeckt 61
   8' Trompette 61                      4' Viole 12
      Chimes                        2 2/3' Nasard
      Cymbelstern                       2' Nachthorn 61
                                    1 3/5' Tierce 49
PEDAL:                                 16' Bassoon 12
  32' Resultant                         8' Trumpet 61
  16' Pommer [SW]                       8' Hautbois 61
  16' Bourdon 32                        4' Clarion 12
   8' Octave 32                            Tremolo
   8' Pommer [SW]                        
   4' Choral Bass 12                CHOIR/POSITIV:
   4' Gedeckt [SW]                      8' Holzgedeckt 61'
  IV  Mixture 128                       4' Principal 61
  16' Posaune 32                        4' Rohrflöte 73
  16' Bassoon [SW]                      2' Octave 12
   8' Posaune 12                    1 1/3' Quint
   8' Trompette [SW]                    1' Sifflöte 
   4' Clarion 12                      III  Zymbal 183
      Chimes                            8' Krummhorn 61
                                           Tremolo

[Received online from Chad Boorsma • August 3, 2013]