Better Pipe Organ Database

Hinners Organ Co. (1915)

First Presbyterian Church / Howard County Historical Society: Sanctuary
8328 Court St.
Ellicott City, MD

Images

ca. 2018 - Organ case in front of room (Photograph by Howard County Historical Society, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

ca. 2010 - Organ in front of room (Photograph by Trip Advisor, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

ca. 1950's - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Vintage postcard, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

1965-01-01 - Façade - angled view (Photograph by Steve Kowalyshyn/Database Manager)

1965-01-01 - Façade and Key desk: fullfront view (Photograph by Steve Kowalyshyn/Database Manager)

1965-01-01 - Left Tower (Photograph by Steve Kowalyshyn/Database Manager)

1965-01-01 - Central portion of Façade (Photograph by Steve Kowalyshyn/Database Manager)

1965-01-01 - Keydesk - angled view (Photograph by Steve Kowalyshyn/Database Manager)

1965-01-01 - Keydesk - front view (Photograph by Steve Kowalyshyn/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
11 stops
12 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: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Has combination trundles

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1996 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Building was 1st Presbyterian church. Refurbished by Hinners in 1915 (Hinners list). -Database Manager

2006-10-25 - Updated through online information from Stephen Paul Kowalyshyn. -- The three standard couplers are operated by thumb pistons beneath the Swell manual. A circular dial indicator shows the level of wind in the bellows, which was originally hand pumped. The pumping lever was still in the organ chamber ~1965. The Swell shoe is ornamental cast iron in the shape of a shoe sole. The Swell Bourdon 16' has a separate stop knob for the bottom 12 notes, hence the 12 stops/11 ranks count. I visited the organ again about 1995. Less of it was working then, especially the two tubular pneumatic offset Bourdon 16' stops. I'm quite sure the Historical Society intends to retain the instrument. -Database Manager

2014-02-07 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- There are some conflicting dates between the stoplist presented below, and the account for Fourteenth Christian Reformed Church in Holland, Michigan. According to that account, the organ wasn't removed until 1922, and next went to Sixth Reformed church also in Holland, Michigan. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist taken from the console July 27, 2013Date not recorded

Endicott City, Maryland
First Presbyterian Church / Howard County Historical Society

A.B. Felgemaker, Opus 809, 1903
Hinners Organ Company, 1915 - relocating and re-installation


GREAT  61 notes
8’  Open Diapason
8’  Melodia
8’  Dulciana
4’  Principal (Octave)


SWELL (Expressive)  61 notes
16’ Sw. Bourdon Bass 12 notes (label original)
16’ Sw. Bourdon Treble
8’  Open Diapason
8’  Stopped Diapason
8’  Aeoline
4’  Flute Harmonic
8’  Gamba (Oboe-Gamba) some stopped basses


PEDAL:  30 notes
16’ Pedal Bourdon


COUPLERS (by on-off pistons under Swell manual)
Swell to Pedal
Great to Pedal

Swell to Great  


FOOT TRUNDLES (Combinations)
Swell Piano -

Swell Forte -

Great Piano -

Great Forte -


PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell Expression     (balanced)


NOTES
Originally built for Fourteenth Street Christian Reformed Church in Holland,
Michigan. 16' offsets on Tubular Pneumatic Action may date from the time of
the Hinners relocation and reinstallation. A new concave-radiating pedalboard
of the Hinners type probably from 1915.

Organ playing (2013) except for some pedal notes/couplers not playing.

[Received from Carl Schwartz 2013-07-31.]