Better Pipe Organ Database

Joel Kantner (1862)

Christ Church Little Tulpehocken: Sanctuary; rear gallery
40 Church Rd.
Bernville, PA

OHS convention: 1976

Images

2002-05-01 - Organ Case (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2002-05-01 - Sanctuary Interior, Balcony, and Organ Case (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2002-05-01 - Left Drawknobs (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2002-05-01 - Right Drawknobs (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2002-05-01 - Manual and Builder's Name Stencil (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2002-05-01 - Church Exterior (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
1 manuals
8 stops
8 registers
1 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 53 notes
Pedal Type: No Pedalboard
Expression Type: No Enclosed Divisions
Combination action: None

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1976. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Cost $600. Bottom 12 notes of the Violin 8' are grooved from the Gedackt. The 15th is reversible from a knee lever. OHS 1976 attributes the organ to Krauss, confusing it with an Andrew Krauss organ that was built in 1837 for Christ Church, Tulpehocken (near Stouchburg). Restored 1988 by Columbia Organ Works. -Database Manager

2022-04-22 - Exhibited in the 2003 OHS Convention -Paul R. Marchesano

Stoplist

Source: Taken from the 1976 OHS Convention Handbook

Bernville, Pennsylvania
Christ Church Little Tulpehocken
 
1863 Kantner

     MANUAL: (53 notes, unenclosed)
8 F. Op. Diapason      53p. w&m
8 F. Gedackt           53p. w
8 F. Violin            41p. m; bell gamba. 1-12 grooved to Gedackt 8'
4 F. Principal         53p. m; 3-6 in case
4 F. Flute             53p. w 1-13 stopped, 12-53 open metal
4 F. Gedackt           53p. w
3 F. Quinte            53p. m
2 F. 15th              53p. m

Knee lever actuated "crescendo pedal" in reed organ style.