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Donald Haan Pipe Organ Service (1999 ca.)

Hope Reformed Church / Unison Christian Church: Sanctuary
2010 Kalamazoo Ave. SE
Grand Rapids, MI

Images

Date unknown - Sanctuary interior with organ grille in front (Photograph from an archival source: Church website, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Date unknown - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Church website, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
2 manuals
27 stops
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
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: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2009-09-14 - Identified through on-line information from Chad Boorsma. -Database Manager

2023-04-19 - This building has recently been sold to a congregation called Unison Christian Church, who are planning to sell/ give away/ remove the organ. -Rhonda Sider Edgington

2023-06-04 - I was there to see the organ - the current congregation does not use it and would like to give it away, but there are some mechanical issues -Rhonda Sider Edgington

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from the console (September 1, 2009) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Grand Rapids, Michigan
HOPE REFORMED CHURCH

Schantz Organ Company     Opus 673     1965     18 ranks
Digital stops added by Haan Pipe Organ Company (ca. 1999)
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GREAT:                            SWELL:
    8’ Principal                      8’ Rohrflöte
    8’ Hohlflöte                      8’ Viole
    8’ Dulciana                       8’ Viole Celeste
    4’ Octave                         4’ Principal
    4’ Flute Ouverte                  4’ Flute Conique
    2’ Super Octave               2 2/3’ Nasard
   IV  Fourniture                     2’ Flautino
    8’ Trompette                      8’ Oboe
       Chimes                            Tremulant
       Tremulant                         Orchestral (digital)
       Orchestral (digital)
                                  COUPLERS:
PEDAL:                                Great 16, Unison Off, 4
   32’ Orchestral (digital)           Swell 16, Unison Off, 4
   16’ Subbass                        Great to Pedal 8, 4
   16’ Rohr Gedackt                   Swell to Pedal 8, 4
    8’ Principal                      Swell to Great 16, 8, 4
    8’ Bass Flute  
    8’ Rohrflöte                  COMBINATION ACTION:
    4’ Choral Bass                    4 General Thumb Pistons
    4’ Flute                          4 General Toe Studs
                                      4 Pedal Toe Studs
                                      4 Divisional Thumb Pistons        


[Received on line from Chad Boorsma September 17, 2009.]

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