Better Pipe Organ Database

Holtkamp Opus 1716 (1959)

Amherst College: Arthur B. Chapin Memorial Chapel, Room 108, Chapin Hall
Amherst, MA

Images

2023-08-30 - Exposed pipes (Photograph by Bill Czelusniak, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Non-Traditional Style, As Consoles by Holtkamp, Schlicker, et al
2 manuals
14 stops
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: No Enclosed Divisions

Notes

2008-12-24 - 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 1716. That number appears here as the Opus number of this instrument. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist courtesy of Bill Czelusniak via Facebook 2023-09-02

Amherst, Massachusetts
Amherst College

Holtkamp, Opus 1716, 1959


    GREAT
8’  Dulciane  
8’  Copula      (3 octaves wood)
4’  Principal  
2’  Hohlflöte   (narrow, tapered)
III Mixture     (1’, breaks at octaves)


    POSITIV
8’  Quintadena  
4’  Rohrflöte  
2’  Principal  
II  Cymbal      (¼’, breaks every 7 notes)
8’  Schalmey  


    PEDAL
16’ Quintadena  
8’  Gedeckt     (metal)
4’  Choralbass  (slightly tapered)
16’ Stilles Fagott    (copper)


    COUPLERS
Great to Pedal
Positiv to Pedal

Positiv to Great  (Unison coupler placed in Positiv)


    FINGER PISTONS


    TOE STUDS


    PEDAL MOVEMENTS