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Holtkamp Organ Co. Opus 1656 (1951)

Residence: Don Willing
100 Newbury Terrace
San Antonio, TX

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


Consoles

Main


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 1656. That number appears here as the Opus number of this instrument. -Database Manager

2013-09-19 - Updated through information received via e-mail from a supporter who wishes to remain anonymous. -- The original organ had electric action with slider chests, drawknobs above the upper manual and no tremulant or combination action. Tracker touch was included, over Mr. Willing's objections. <br>The organ was sold to University Presbyterian Church, San Antonio, in 1955 or 1956, when Mr. Willing moved to Boston where he shortly afterward became chairman of the organ department at New England Conservatory. -Database Manager


Stoplist

Stoplist as relayed to me by Mr. Willing himself in 1972 and in Joseph Blanton, The Organ in Church Design Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

MANUAL I (lower) 56 notes
8' Gedackt (stopped wood)
4' Principal
II rks. Cymbel (1/2' series)
II to I coupler


MANUAL II (upper) 56 notes
8' Quintadena (metal)
4' Rohrfloete (metal)
2' Principal
II rks. Sesquialtera (12-17)


PEDAL 32 notes
16' Subbass (stopped wood)
4' Choralbass
8' Rankett (quarter-length wood resonators)
I to Pedal coupler
II to Pedal coupler

 [Received from Like to remain anonymous 2016-08-07.]

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