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Votteler-Holtkamp-Sparling (1938 ca.)

St. John's Episcopal Church
16 W 4th Street
Dunkirk, NY

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Non-Traditional Style, As Consoles by Holtkamp, Schlicker, et al
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
2 manuals
13 stops
22 registers
3 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)
Has crescendo
Combination action: None

Notes

2009-01-08 - Identified through information posted to OHS Members List by Scot Huntington January 7, 2009: -- "The organ reused pipework from Johnson & Son op. 696, 1888 (2 manuals and pedal). When I was organist there in the 1970s, an oldster in the congregation remembered the old Johnson, and thought the organ came around 1938. The church is high Anglican, but not Anglo-Catholic. The organ facade and console exhibit stylistic similarities to the organ at St. James Anglican in Cleveland. The organ had 11 ranks, 13 stops on pitman chests. In 1963 Walter Holtkamp Jr. added an unenclosed 4 stop, 5 rank Positive which was controlled through coupler tablets formerly used for octave couplers." -Database Manager

2023-10-27 - This organ is not listed on the published Holtkamp opus list until the 1963 revision. -Scot Huntington

Stoplist

Source: console relay 1974

Votteler-Holtkamp-Sparling (ca. 1938)
St. John's Church
Dunkirk, New York

Compasses: 61/32 

GREAT  
Principal 8'     (basses in nave-facing facade)
Copula 8'        (wood)
Dulciana 8'      (basses in choir-facing facade)
Octave 4'
Great 4'
Swell to Great 16'
Swell to Great
Swell to Great 4' 

SWELL  
Quintaton 8'
Viola 8'        
Rohr Flute 4'
Flautino 2'     (pipes labeled "12th")
Mixture         (2 ranks, pipes labeled 
                   "Dolce Cornet"; 2 2/3', 2')*
Swell 4'
 
PEDAL  
Subbass 16'          (very large scale)
Lieblich Gedackt 16' (small scale)
Flute 8'             (ext. Subbass)
Dolce Flute 8'       (ext. L. Gedackt)
Great to Pedal
Great to Pedal 5 1/3'
Swell to Pedal

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#38278 - Holtkamp Opus Job No.1647 (1963)