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Lauck Pipe Organ Co. Opus 7 (1978)

Beckwith Hills Christian Reformed Church: Sanctuary
2100 Chelsea Road NE
Grand Rapids, MI

Images

2009-10-31 - Sanctuary interior (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2009-10-31 - Church exterior (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2009-10-31 - Console (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2009-10-31 - Sanctuary interior (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2009-10-31 - Pipe display (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2009-10-31 - Manuals and stops (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
2 manuals
23 stops
37 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
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 thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2009-08-08 - Identified through online information from Chad Boorsma. -- Lauck Pipe Organ Company built a new console for the organ, added new pipes, and did a major tonal reworking of the instrument. Lauck kept the windchests that were built by Mutchler Organ Company when the instrument was installed in the current building in 1963. The Lauck instrument also includes pipes from the Mutchler installation and from a Schantz instrument that the church owned in their previous building. -Database Manager

2009-08-09 - Updated through on-line information from Chad Boorsma. -- The organ is equipped with eight levels of memory. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from the console (July 16, 2009) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Grand Rapids, Michigan
BECKWITH HILLS CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH

Lauck Pipe Organ Company    Opus 7    1978    33 ranks
Includes materials from Schantz (1927) and Mutchler (1963)
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GREAT:                           SWELL:
   16’ Pommer                        8’ Gedeckt    
    8’ Prinzipal                     8’ Salicional
    8’ Rohrflute                     8’ Vox Celeste
    4’ Oktav                         4’ Prinzipal
    4’ Spitzflote                    4’ Koppelflote
2 2/3’ Nasat                         2’ Oktav
    2’ Super Oktav               1 1/5’ Quinte
    2’ Hohlflote                    IV  Scharf
1 3/5’ Terz                         16’ Kontra Fagott
   IV  Mixture                       8’ Trompette
   II  Zimbel                           Tremulant
   16’ Trompette En Chamade
    8’ Trompette En Chamade      COUPLERS:
    4’ Trompette En Chamade          Great to Pedal 8
       Chimes                        Swell to Pedal 8, 4
       Tremulant                     Swell to Swell 16, Unison Off, 4
                                     Swell to Great 16, 8, 4
PEDAL:
   32’ Untersatz                 COMBINATION ACTION:
   16’ Prinzipal                     8 General Thumb Pistons
   16’ Borduin                       8 General Toe Studs
   16’ Pommer                        6 Divisional Thumb Pistons
    8’ Oktav                         6 Pedal Toe Studs
    8’ Borduin                       8 Levels of Memory
    4’ Choral Bass
   IV  Mixtur
   16’ Posaune
   16’ Kontra Fagott
    8’ Trompette
    8’ Fagott
    4’ Klarine
                                     
[Received on line from Chad Boorsma August 10, 2009.]

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