Better Pipe Organ Database

Holtkamp Opus 1636 (1949)

St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Cleveland, OH

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Images

Unknown - Gallery Case and exposed pipes (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)

2008-07-05 - Gallery Case and exposed pipes (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)

2008-07-05 - Exposed Ruckpositiv pipes (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)

Unknown - Console (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Non-Traditional Style, As Consoles by Holtkamp, Schlicker, et al
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
38 stops
44 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)

Notes

2008-12-21 - 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 1636. That number appears here as the Opus number of this instrument. -Database Manager

2014-11-19 - Updated through online information from John McCraney. -- This information is taken from John Allen Ferguson's WALTER HOLTKAMP: AMERICAN ORGAN BUILDER (Kent: Kent State U P, 1979), pgs. 56 (photo),58,114-16 and an advertisement with small photo in the DIAPASON (November 2007). Its availability was mentioned on the Holtkamp Company website sometime later. -Database Manager

2022-06-17 - The church closed in 2009 and the organ was removed by Holtkamp to storage and eventual sale. -Jeff Scofield

Stoplist

from John Allen Ferguson, WALTER HOLTKAMP: AMERICAN ORGANBUILDER, pp. 114-116 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Cleveland, Ohio
St. Paul's Lutheran Church

Holtkamp, Job # 1636--1949 (42 speaking stops; 49 ranks)
Independent ranks in boldface type; extensions are in lower case type as in the Ferguson book

GREAT 3-1/2" wind

      16 QUINTADENA           61
       8 PRINCIPAL            61
       8 GEDACKT              61
       4 OCTAVE+              61
       4 SPITZFLOTE           61
   2-2/3 QUINTE+              61
       2 SUPER OCTAVE+        61
      IV MIXTURE             244
       8 KRUMMHORN (6" wind)  61


SWELL 5" wind

       8 GEIGEN PRINCIPAL     61
       8 BOURDON+             61
       8 QUINTATON            61
       8 VOIX CELESTE II +   122
       4 OCTAVE GEIGEN+       61
       4 FLUTE+               61
       2 BLOCKFLOTE+          61
     III DOLCE CORNET (2-2/3  2  1-3/5) 183
       V PLEIN JEU           305
       8 TROMPETTE            61
       4 OBOE CLARION         61


RUCKPOSITIV 3-1/2" wind

       8 COPULA               61
       4 PRINCIPAL            61
       4 ROHRFLOTE            61
   2-2/3 NAZARD               61
       2 DOUBLETTE            61
   1-3/5 TIERCE               61
     III FOURNITURE          183


PEDAL 3-1/2" WIND
       
      16 CONTRA BASS (wood)   32
      16 SUB BASS+            32
      16 LIEBLICH GEDACKT+    32
      16 Quintadena  (Great)  GT
  10-2/3 GROSS QUINTE (metal) 32
       8 OCTAVE+              32
       8 VIOLONE+             32
       8 Flauto Dolce (Lieblich) 12
       4 CHORAL BASS          32
       4 Flute+ (Lieblich)    12
     III MIXTURE (2-2/3  2  1-1/3) 96
      16 POSAUNE ( 6" wind)   32
       8 Trumpet (Posaune)    12
       8 Krummhorn (Great)    GT
       4 Krummhorn (Great)    GT

+  indicates pipes from a previous organ, builder(s) unspecified

Mixture Compositions

Great IV Mixture

Note   1        13       25         37         49

Pitch  1-1/3     2        2-2/3      4          5-1/3
       1         1-1/3    2          2-2/3      4
       2/3       1        1-1/3      2          2-2/3
       1/2       2/3      1          1-1/3      2


Swell  V Plein Jeu
 
Note             1       20         32         44

Pitch            1-2/3    4          4          8
                 2        2-2/3      4          4
                 1-1/3    2          2-2/3      4
                 1        1 1/3      2          2 2/3
                 2/3      1          1-1/3      2


Positiv III Fourniture

Note   1        13       25         37         49

Pitch  1         1-1/3    2          2-2/3      4
       2/3       1        1-1/3      2          2-2/3
       1/2       2/3      1          1-1/3      2


Pedal III Mixture (composition not given)        
  

 [Received from John McCraney 2014-10-29.]

Documents

Write-up from THE DIAPASON September 1947 Stoplist and commentary -Jeff Scofield