First Presbyterian Church
203 North Almer Street
Caro, MI
Images
2012-10-20 - Organ facade and console (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2017-02-27 - Organ facade at front of sanctuary (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2017-05-06 - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
Unknown - Console, ca. 2009 (Photograph by Susan Atkerson/Database Manager)
Unknown - Console and pipe facade, ca. 2009. (Photograph by Susan Atkerson/Database Manager)
2012-01-29 - Manuals and Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by Susan Reim/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
- 2 manuals
- 21 stops
- 24 registers
- 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
Notes
2008-05-21 - Identified through information adapted from <i>E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List</i>, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: <br><i> Replaced 1903 two manual Hook & Hastings, #1987; extant; unaltered.</i> -Database Manager
2013-10-28 - Updated through online information from Carl Shonk. -- Just returned from a concert at this Church. This organ is original, in regular use and well cared for. From a local newspaper article "The wind pressure regulators are something that need a lot of attention right now and the leathers have to be replaced, but he's not planning on using synthetic leather, it's going to be the real thing. He wants this organ to be as much in original condition as possible, because it is right now - nothing has been changed over the years. A lot of times organists will come in and say, "I want to add this rank of pipes or that rank, or I don't like the sound of that",- and they mess around with it, but this organ is an original. Really the only thing that's been added - and that was at my request - was the Zimbelstern. This happened quite a few years ago, probably in the early 90's. http://www.tuscolatoday.com/index.php/2013/10/25/organ-concert-planned-for-sunday/ -Database Manager
2022-04-15 - The Aeolian-Skinner is installed behind the facade of the church's previous 1903 Hook & Hastings. -Jim Stettner
Stoplist
Source: Stoplist from dedication program ca. 1952, via Susan Reim Date not recorded
Caro, Michigan
First Presbyterian Church
Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co., Inc. Opus 1166 1948 2 manuals, 21 stops, 27 ranks
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GREAT COUPLERS
16' Quintaton 61 Swell to Pedal 8,4
8' Diapason 61 Great to Pedal 8,4
8' Hohlflöte 61
8' Gemshorn 61 Swell to Great 16,8,4
4' Octave 61
2' Fifteenth 61
II-IV Fourniture 208 FINGER PISTONS
II Cymbel 122 General 1 - 5
Chimes (enc. in SW) 25 tubes Swell 1 - 5
Sw. to Ped. (rev)
Great to Great 4 Great 1 - 5
Gr. to Ped. (rev)
SFZ. (rev)
SWELL (Expressive) Setter
8' Rohrflöte 73 General Cancel
8' Viole de Gambe 73
8' Viole Celeste (TC) 61
4' Geigen Principal 73 TOE STUDS
4' Flute Harmonic 73 General 1 - 5
2' Italian Principal 61 Pedal 1 - 5
III Plein Jeu 183 Swell to Pedal (rev)
16' Fagotto 73 Great to Pedal (rev)
8' Trompette 73 Sforzando (rev)
4' Oboe Clarion 73 Zimbelstern (+ 1990s) (rev)
Tremolo
Swell to Swell 16 COMBINATION COUPLERS
Swell to Swell 4 Ped. to Man. Combs. On and Off
PEDAL PEDAL MOVEMENTS
16' Bourdon 32 Swell Expression (bal.)
16' Quintaton (Gt) -- Crescendo (bal.)
8' Octave 32
8' Flute 12
4' Choralbass 32
16' Fagotto (Sw) --
Chimes (Gt) --
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2016-07-08]
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