Better Pipe Organ Database

Votteler-Holtkamp-Sparling Opus 1602 (1937)

St. James Episcopal Church / St. James Anglican Catholic Church: Sanctuary
1681 E. 55th Street
Cleveland, OH

OHS convention: 2009

Images

2013-10-12 - Console detail (Photograph by Jim Hopkins/Database Manager)

2008-05-01 - Sanctuary Interior, Chancel, and Pipe Facade and Display (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2008-05-01 - Console (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2008-05-01 - Console and Positiv Pipe Display (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2008-05-01 - Positiv Pipework (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2008-05-01 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2008-05-01 - Older Nameplates (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2008-05-01 - Church Exterior (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2008-05-01 - Swell Pipework (Fagott) (Photograph by Joseph M. McCabe/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Non-Traditional Style, As Consoles by Holtkamp, Schlicker, et al
Console position: Movable Console
3 manuals
20 stops
19 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys 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)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2014-04-14 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

2008-12-20 - Identified through information published in John Ferguson's Walter Holtkamp: American Organ Builder (DMA treatise, Eastman School of Music, 1976). Although neither Votteler-Holtkamp-Sparling nor their successor Holtkamp Organ Co. assigned Opus numbers to their instruments, this organ was identified in factory documents as Job number 1602. That number appears here as the Opus number of this instrument. -Database Manager

2013-02-03 - The congregation left the Episcopal Church in 1978 and joined the Anglican Church of America because the Episcopal Church began allowing ordination of female clergy. -Database Manager

2014-04-04 - Updated through online information from Jim Hopkins. -Database Manager

2015-05-10 - Updated through online information from Jim Hopkins. -- The Positiv division, among the first exposed Positiv divisions in the United States, was installed in 1936 and the remainder of the organ was built around it. The organ was restored and slightly altered in the 1970's by the Holtkamp Organ Company and the Leek Organ Company of Oberlin, Ohio. Some stops, such as the Nazard and Tierce in the Swell (separate from the Kornet-Mixtur), were added, and the 5 1/3 Gross Quint was moved to sound at a 4' pitch. The Leek Organ Company installed a new great windchest. In 2011, the organ was cleaned and partially restored, and the console restored and manuals replaced, by the Leek Organ Company. Restoration is ongoing in stages. So far, the main wind reservoir has been re-leathered and the Positiv windchest was cleaned after some minor damage as a result of Superstorm Sandy in 2012. The blower has also been replaced after the original, which is still housed in the blower chamber, ceased to function just before Christmas Eve in 2011. Further re-leathering is planned in the future, as well as complete re-wiring and possibly an upgrade to the combination action. Restoration will hopefully be completed by 2020, and will involve no tonal alterations. This information comes from the Organist and Choirmaster of St. James'. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from the console October 12, 2013 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Cleveland, Ohio
St. James' Anglican Catholic Church

Votteler-Holtkamp-Sparling job 1602, 1937

Great:
16    Quintaton
8     Principal
8     Gedackt
4     Grosse Quint [originally 5 1/3]
Great 4

Swell:
Swell 16
Swell 4
8     Flute
8     Gambe
4     Geigen
2 2/3 Nazard
2     Flute
1 3/5 Tierce
      Kornet-Mixtur IV
8     Fagott

Positiv:
8     Quintadena
4     Prestant
      Cymbal IV
Positiv 16
Positiv 4

Pedal:
16    Sub Bass
16    Quintaton [great]
8     Octave
4     Choral Bass
16    Dulzian

Great-Pedal
Swell-Pedal
Postiv-Pedal
Great-Pedal 4
Swell-Great
Swell-Great 4
Positiv-Great 16
Positiv-Great
Swell-Positiv

 [Received from Jim Hopkins 2014-04-02.]

Websites

The Holtkamp Organ - Description and photos; stoplist, but formatting is difficult to discern. (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)