Better Pipe Organ Database

Holtkamp Opus 1613 (1942)

Olivet College / Congregational Church
125 College St.
Olivet, MI

Images

2021-03-21 - Church interior (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2021-12-17 - Exposed pipe display (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2011-06-04 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Carolyn Hiestand/Database Manager)

2011-06-04 - Console (Photograph by Carolyn Hiestand/Database Manager)

2011-06-04 - Pipe Display (Photograph by Carolyn Hiestand/Database Manager)

2011-06-04 - Ladder to Pipes (Photograph by Carolyn Hiestand/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Non-Traditional Style, As Consoles by Holtkamp, Schlicker, et al
Console position: Movable Console
3 manuals
25 stops
26 registers
4 divisions
Key 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: Computerized/Digital
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler toe 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 1613. That number appears here as the Opus number of this instrument. -Database Manager

2009-08-17 - Updated through research conducted by Sand Lawn, courtesy of David Scribner. Listed by Ferguson as being installed at Olivet College, by Lawn as Congregational Church. -Database Manager

2011-03-14 - Updated through on-line information from John Deppe. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: From THE DIAPASON March 1942

       Olivet, Michigan
       Olivet Congregational Church

       Holtkamp   Job 1613   1942   3/32
       ______________________________________________

       GREAT                    SWELL
   16' Quintadena   61       8' Flute              61
    8' Principal    61       8' Gamba              61
    8' Gedeckt      61       8' Voix Celeste       49
    4' Octave       61       4' Octave Geigen      61
2 2/3' Twelfth      61       4' Octave Flute       61
    2' Fifteenth    61       V  Plein Jeu         305
   IV  Mixture     244       8' Schalmey Clarinet  61
                             4' Oboe Clarion       61
       PEDAL
   16' Subbass      32          POSITIV
   16' Quintadena   GT       8' Quintaton          61
    8' Octave       32       4' Rohrflöte          61
    8' Flauto Dolce 32   2 2/3' Nazard             61
    4' Choralbass   32       2' Doublette          61
   16' Posaune      32   1 3/5' Tierce             61

         [Received from Jeff Scofield May 7, 2022]