Better Pipe Organ Database

Holtkamp (1949)

First Congregational Church
330 2nd Street
Elyria, OH

Images

1909-08-22 - Church Exterior (Vintage Postcard, courtesy of T. Bradford Willis, DDS/Database Manager)

Unknown - Church Exterior (Vintage Postcard, courtesy of T. Bradford Willis, DDS (1910s)/Database Manager)

2017-06-26 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Brad Engelland/Database Manager)

2017-06-26 - Sanctuary, Exposed Pipes and Chamber Screen (Photograph by Brad Engelland/Database Manager)

2017-06-26 - Console (Photograph by Brad Engelland/Database Manager)

2017-06-26 - Manuals and Stop Tabs (Photograph by Brad Engelland/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Non-Traditional Style, As Consoles by Holtkamp, Schlicker, et al
3 manuals
29 stops
33 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Mechanical
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
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2008-12-21 - 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 1640. That number appears here as the Opus number of this instrument. -Database Manager

2017-07-28 - Updated by Dylan Sanzenbacher, who has heard or played the organ. -Database Manager

2019-02-08 - Updated by James R. Stettner, who gave this as the source of the information: Ascertained from OHS Database photos. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from The Diapason January 1950 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

    Elyria, Ohio
    First Congregational Church

    Holtkamp   Job 1640   1949   3/33
    ___________________________________________________

    GREAT                          CHOI

16' Quintaton        61         8' Concert Flute     61
 8' Principal        61         8' Dulciana          61
 8' Stopped Diapason 61         8' Flute Celeste II 117
 4' Octave           61         4' Flute d'Amour     61
 4' Rohrflöte        61     2 2/3' Nazard            61
IV  Mixture         244         2' Doublette         61
                            1 3/5' Tierce            61
    SWELL                       8' Cremona           61

 8' Geigen Principal 61            PEDAL
 8' Rohrflöte        61
 8' Salicional       61        16' Contrabass        32
 8' Voix Celeste     56        16' Subbass           32
 8' Aeoline          61        16' Quintaton         GT
 4' Octave Geigen    61         8' Octave            32
 4' Flauto Traverso  61         8' Violone           32
 8' Trompette        61         8' Flauto Dolce      32
 4' Oboe Clarion     61         4' Choralbass        12
    Tremolo                     4' Flute             12
                               16' Posaune           32
                                8' Trumpet           12

      [Received from Jeff Scofield January 5, 2016]

Websites

Organ Demonstration - Exploration of stops (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)