Better Pipe Organ Database

Unknown Builder (1872)

First Baptist Church / Living Vine Community Church: Sanctuary; front
309 Vine Street
Hudson, WI

Images

2016-04-09 - Organ Case and Keydesk (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

2016-04-09 - Keydesk (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

2016-04-09 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
12 stops
14 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Trigger/Hitch-Down Expression
Combination action: None

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1998 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - From a Presbyterian Church in Pittburgh, PA. Relocated here 1872. Blower added 1938. Dudley Jardine 1864 inside. Stops labeled on jambs above the stopknobs. Restored K. C. Marrin 1991-1992. -Database Manager

2016-05-16 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

2017-05-04 - Updated by Nils Halker, listing conversations with this person as the source of the information: Bob Vickery and Randy Bourne inspected it in February, 2016. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Date not recorded

Hudson, Wisconsin
First Baptist Church

Geo. Jardine & Son, 1863
Unknown Builder, 1872 - Reinstallation here.

       GREAT (56 notes)
8'     Open Diapason             56 pipes
8'     Melodia                   44
8'     St. Diapason Bass         12
4'     Principal                 56
4'     Flute                     44
2 2/3' Twelfth                   56
2'     Fifteenth                 56

       SWELL (Expressive)
8'     Open Diapason             44
8'     Clariana                  44
8'     St. Diapason Treble       44
8'     St. Diapason Bass         12
4'     Principal                 56
8'     Hautbois                  44

       PEDAL
16'    Pedal Pipes               25
       Pedal Lock

COUPLERS
Pedal and Swell
Pedal and Great
Pedal Octaves (restored by Lurth c. 1970. Plays low 12 pedal notes one
               octave higher.)

Great and Swell


PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell Expression         Hitch-down 

ACCESSORIES
Bellows

NOTES
Onginally built for a Presbytenan Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the
organ was relocated in 1872 to its current home. While there was discus-
sion in 1957 of replacing the organ with an electronic instrument, nothing
occured. The Lurth company performed "Emergency measures...taken to stabil-
ize the instrument against further deterioration". The organ remains essen-
tially as built; the only concessions are the retention of the electric
blower installed in 1938, and the construction of a new organ bench, which
allows the organist to sit much closer to the keyboards than the original
bench would allow; the old bench is still available for anyone who would
care to try it.

The organ is installed in an alcove on the left side of the front chancel
wall, and it speaks quite readily into the room. The 44-note stops drop out
below tenor c, while the two 12 note stops operate only for the bottom 
octave. The Clariana is a mild but still stringy bell-gamba. The Pedal
Pipes, Melodia, and St. Diapason Bass stops are of wood, as presumably is
part or most of the St. Diapason Treble. The Pedal Octaves coupler couples
the upper octave of the pedals to the lower octave of the pedal board.

Facade and some of the action may have been modified in 1872 to accomodate
new space restrictions.

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#67637†* - George Jardine & Son (1863)