Holtkamp Opus Job No.1620 (1944)
Euclid Avenue Temple (Temple Anshe Chesed) / Liberty Hill Baptist Church: Sanctuary
8206 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH
Images
2018-08-02 - Organ Chambers and Facade (Photograph by Don Daley/Database Manager)
2018-08-02 - Swell Pipework (Photograph by Don Daley/Database Manager)
2018-08-02 - Choir Pipework (Photograph by Don Daley/Database Manager)
2015-04-23 - Console (Photograph by Lawrence Hill/Database Manager)
Unknown - Pipe Chamber (Photograph by Lawrence Hill/Database Manager)
Unknown - Shutters and Pipework ((right side of sanctuary front) Photograph by Lawrence Hill/Database Manager)
Unknown - Builders' Nameplate (Photograph by Lawrence Hill/Database Manager)
Unknown - Church Exterior ((ca. 1919) Vintage Postcard; image courtesy of Lawrence Hill/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
- 4 manuals
- 52 registers
- 5 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
- 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 1620. That number appears here as the Opus number of this instrument. An additional note in Ferguson's list identifies this as a rebuild of an earlier instrument. -Database Manager
2012-06-17 - Updated through online information from Ron Yeater. -- The temple moved to the suburbs (1960s?) and the building on Euclid Ave. is now a Baptist church. Organ's status unknown. -Database Manager
2015-04-23 - Updated through online information from Lawrence Hill. -Database Manager
2015-04-24 - Updated through online information from Lawrence Hill. -- The [pipes] in the rear of the sanctuary are located only in one room off the balcony, at the left side of the balcony, as one faces the balcony. The chamber on the other side of the balcony is empty. The chamber which contains pipes is in very bad shape, with fallen plaster and water damage to the walls. It is observable that several of the small pipes are not "seated" correctly in their position. One pipe began cyphering today while I visited. The console was altered to match the choir pews and woodwork surrounding the front of the choir stands. The original console was a cherry or mahogany tone, which is evident inside the console once the cover is rolled up. It also appears that repairs were made in 1961 by J. E. Nagel (Joseph?). the plate on the interior of the console has Moller 1912 and below that, J.E. Nagel 1961. -Database Manager
2021-02-07 - As of October 2020, the organ is in usable condition, but needs attention. The organ was out of tune, and some pipes did not speak. -Solomon Wickline
Stoplist
Source: Stoplist taken from the console April 23, 2015
Cleveland, Ohio
Euclid Avenue Temple / now Liberty Hill Baptist Church
M.P. Moller, Opus ____, 1912
Holtkamp, Job No. 1620, 1944 - Rebuild with Tonal Changes
J.E. Nagel, 1961 - Moving, Reinstallation, and Tonal Changes (?)
GREAT SWELL (Expressive)
8 Open Dipason 16 Bourdon
8 Rohr Flute 8 Gedeckt
8 Gemshorn 8 Nachthorn
4 Octave 8 Salicional
4 Harmonic Flute 8 Voix Celeste
2 2/3 Twelfth 8 Aeoline
2 Fifteenth 4 Principal
Mixture 4 Spitz Flute
16 Posaune 4 Ludwigtone
Tremolo 2 2/3 Quint
Chimes 2 Flautina
1 1/3 Larigot
Great to Great 16 Sesquialtera
Great to Great 4 Plein Jeu
8 Cornopean
Tremolo
ECHO (Expressive)
8 Salicional Swell to Swell 16
8 Flauto Dolce Swell to Swell 4
8 Dolcissimo
8 Unda Maris
8 Vox Humana CHOIR (Expressive)
Tremolo 8 Geigen
Chimes 8 Flute D'Amour
8 Dulciana
Echo to Echo 16 8 Unda Maris
Echo to Echo 4 4 Principal
4 Concert Flute
2 Piccolo
PEDAL 1 3/5 Tierce
32 Contra Bass 8 Oboe
16 Flute Tremolo
16 Violone Harp
16 Gedackt
16 Contra Viole 16 Choir to Choir
8 Octave 4 Choir to Choir
5 1/3 Quint
4 Choral Bass
4 Doppel Flute
2 Nacht Horn
16 Bombarde
16 Posaune
8 Shofar
8 Clarinet
COUPLERS FINGER PISTONS
Swell to Pedal 8,4 General 1 - 5
Great to Pedal 8,4 Echo 1 - 4
Choir to Pedal 8,4 Swell 1 - 6
Great 1 - 6
Swell to Great 16,8,4 Choir 1 - 6
Choir to Great 16,8,4 Pedal 1 - 6
Echo to Great 8 Gen Can
Swell to Choir 8
Echo to Choir 16,8,4 TOE STUDS
General 1 - 5
Echo to Swell 16,8,4 Pedal 1 - 6
Gr. to Ped. (rev)
Sw. to Ped. (rev)
PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Echo Expression (bal.)
Swell Expression (bal.)
Choir Expression (bal.)
Crescendo (bal.)
[Received from Lawrence Hill 2015-04-24.]
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