Better Pipe Organ Database

Holtkamp Opus 1723 (1960)

Fisk University: Memorial Chapel
Nashville, TN

Images

Unknown - Chapel exterior (Photograph by Fisk University, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2006-10-02 - Chapel interior to rear (Photograph by Ken Stein, photographybystein.com, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2006-10-02 - Console (Photograph by Ken Stein, photographybystein.com, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2006-10-02 - Exposed pipes (Photograph by Ken Stein, photographybystein.com, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Unknown - Console and Pipe Display (Photograph from Organ Dedication Program (1960); image courtesy of John Richards/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Non-Traditional Style, As Consoles by Holtkamp, Schlicker, et al
Console position: Movable Console
3 manuals
32 stops
34 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)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

2008-12-24 - 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 1723. That number appears here as the Opus number of this instrument. -Database Manager

2013-11-18 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Updated by John Richards, based on personal knowledge of the organ. -- -Database Manager

2015-10-26 - Updated through online information from John Igoe. -- The Milnar Organ Compnay of Eagleville, TN, updated the control system in 1992. (The American Organist, Nov 2015, p36). Relay still original; re-leathered great main chest in 2015 (Milnar Organ Company). -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from undocumented issue of <i>The Diapason</i> Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       Nashville, Tennessee
       Fisk University
       Memorial Chapel

       Holtkamp   Op. 1723   1960   3/40
       ________________________________________

       GREAT                   SWELL
   16' Quintadena 61        8' Chimney Flute 61
    8' Principal  61        8' Dulciane      61
    8' Gedackt    61        4' Bourdon       61
    4' Octave     61        2' Flautino      61
    4' Spitzflöte 61    1 1/3' Quinte        61
    2' Octava     61       II  Cymbal       122
   IV  Plein Jeu 244        8' Oboe          61
    8' Trumpet    61           Tremulant
       Chimes
                               PEDAL
       POSITIV             16' Principal     32
    8' Copula     56       16' Subbass       32
    4' Praestant  56       16' Quintadena    GT
    4' Rohrflöte  56        8' Octave        32
2 2/3' Nazard     56        8' Gedackt       32
    2' Gemshorn   56        4' Choralbass    32
1 3/5' Tierce     56        2' Blockflöte    32
  III  Scharf    168      III  Mixture       96
    8' Cromorne   56       16' Posaune       32
                            8' Trumpet       12
                            4' Schalmey      32

[Received from Jeff Scofield November 22, 2013]