Better Pipe Organ Database

Holtkamp Organ Co. Opus Job No. 1927 (1975)

Colgate University: Memorial Chapel
Hamilton, NY

Images

2014-05-30 - Stage and organ in front (Photograph by Kelsy H. on Foursquare.com, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2019-07-25 - Organ pipes on front wall (Photograph by Juston P. on Foursquare.com, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2009-05-31 - Chapel interior with organ in front (Photograph by Ron Schott on Gigapan, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2012-09-07 - Chapel exterior (Photograph by Wikimedia, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Unknown - Chapel interior and exposed pipes (Photograph by cmceast.org, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Non-Traditional Style, As Consoles by Holtkamp, Schlicker, et al
Console position: Keydesk Attached
3 manuals
38 stops
39 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
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: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1994. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Frank Brehmer organ. -Database Manager

2005-12-23 - Updated through information adapted from E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: Replaced E. M. Skinner Opus 276 (1917). -Database Manager

2010-07-05 - Updated through on-line information from robert grant. -- I am the architect who designed the renovations to the Colgate Memorial Chapel where this instrument is located. I worked with Chick Holtkamp to facilitate coordinating the instrument's installation with new renovations to the auditorium. I've indicated information about the instrument as I recall after many years of having seen or played it. Any number of the selections could be inaccurate. It is "tracker action" to what degree I'm not certain. Its very unusual contemporary design, as Chick was wont to do at the time, contrasts sharply with the Georgian interior of the chapel, details which I followed faithfully in the renovations. There was a "bumping of the heads" over this with Chick winning out. It is "odd" in appearance, but the more I saw of it later, the more I grew to like it. It is impressive, with beautiful tonal design, which overcomes the depressing acoustics in the room. It was a joy to work with Chick even though our disagreements were many and often less than cordial. Neither of us took it personally, and we remained friends until Chick's death. -Database Manager

2011-10-02 - Updated through online information from Amber Harding. -Database Manager

2014-08-07 - Updated through online information from Scot Huntington. -- The instrument utilizes fiberglass trackers. The bottom 32 notes of the Great 16' are on a unit chest to permit duplexing to the pedal. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist copied from *The American Organist* - undocumented issue Date not recorded

Hamilton, New York
Colgate University - Memorial Chapel

Holtkamp   Job No. 1927   1976   3/53
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       GREAT                          POSITIV
16'    Pommer          61      8'     Copula          61
8'     Principal       61      4'     Praestant       61
8'     Gedackt         61      4'     Rohrflöte       61
4'     Octave          61      2 2/3' Nazard          61 
4'     Spitzflöte      61      2'     Blockflöte      61
2'     Superoctave     61      1 3/5' Tierce          61
II     Sesquialtera   122      1'     Glockenlein     61
IV     Mixture        244      IV     Fourniture     244
III    Scharf         183      8'     Cromorne        61
8'     Trumpet         61

                                      PEDAL
       SWELL (Expressive)      16'    Principal       32
8'     Rohrflöte       61      16'    Subbass         32
8'     Gamba           61      16'    Pommer    (Gt)  --
8'     Voix Celeste    56      8'     Octave          32
4'     Bourdon         61      8'     Flute           12
2'     Principal       61      4'     Choralbass      32
1 1/3' Larigot         61      IV     Rauschbass     128
IV     Cymbal         244      16'    Posaune         32
16'    Dulzian         61      8'     Trumpet         32
8'     Fagott          61      4'     Schalmey        32
4'     Clairon         61
       Tremulant


       COUPLERS
Swell to Pedal
Great to Pedal
Positiv to Pedal

Swell to Great
Positiv to Great

Swell to Positiv


       FINGER PISTONS
Undocumented


       TOE STUDS
Undocumented


       PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell Expression             (bal.)


[Received from Jeff Scofield January 20, 2016]