Better Pipe Organ Database

Holtkamp Organ Co. Opus 1611 (1942)

Baldwin Wallace College: Kulas (Small Auditorium) Chamber Music Hall
Front Street
Berea, OH

Images

Unknown - Organ and exposed pipes (Photograph by Holtkamp website, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

1967-04-16 - Console (Photograph by John E. Kenderdine, Jr./Database Manager)

1967-04-16 - Console, Exposed Great, and Open Swell Box (Photograph by John E. Kenderdine, Jr./Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Keydesk Attached
3 manuals
30 stops
31 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)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Remote Pneumatic/Mechanical Capture
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2008-12-20 - Identified through information published in John Ferguson's <i>Walter Holtkamp: American Organ Builder</i> (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 1611. That number appears here as the Opus number of this instrument. -Database Manager

2009-08-01 - Updated through online information from David Banas. -Database Manager

2009-08-02 - Updated through online information from David Banas. -Database Manager

2009-12-07 - Updated through online information from John Kenderdine. -- I am certain this was/is a three manual instrument. The lowest manual controlled a true exposed "ruck" positive division mounted above an exit door on the wall opposite the main organ divisions. -Database Manager

2022-04-07 - Offered for sale (due to hall renovation) in 2018 via the Holtkamp website. -Jeff Scofield

Stoplist

Source: From THE DIAPASON December 1940

       Berea, Kentucky
       Baldwin-Wallace College
       Kulas Recital Hall

       Holtkamp   Job 1611   1942   3/41
       ____________________________________________

       GREAT                         POSITIV
   16' Quintaden         61       8' Quintaton   61
    8' Principal         61       4' Principal   61
    8' Gedeckt           61       4' Rohrflöte   61
    4' Octave            61   2 2/3' Nazard      61
    4' Spitzflöte        61       2' Doublette   61
2 2/3' Quinte            61   1 3/5' Tierce      61
    2' Superoctave       61     III  Fourniture 183
   IV  Mixture          244
                                     PEDAL
       SWELL                     16' Subbass     32
    8' Harmonic Flute    61      16' Quintaden   GT
    8' Viol de Gambe     61       8' Violon      32
    8' Voix Celeste      49       4' Choralbass  32
    4' Flute Octaviante  61      16' Posaune     32
    2' Piccolo           61       8' Fagott      32
  III  Dolce Cornet     183       4' Schalmey    32
    V  Plein Jeu        305
    8' Trompete          61
    4' Oboe Clarion      61
       Tremolo

       [Received from Jeff Scofield April 7, 2022]

Documents

Write-up from THE DIAPASON June 1941 Stoplist and dedicatory concert comments -Jeff Scofield
(1940-12-01) Write-up from THE DIAPASON December 1940 Stoplist and description -Jeff Scofield