Better Pipe Organ Database

Hinners Organ Co. (1907)

St. Peter American Lutheran Church: Sanctuary; rear gallery
1781 County Road 2000 E.
Benson, IL

Images

Date Unknown - Partial organ facade (Photograph from an archival source: Parish website: header, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2017-04-19 - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
8 stops
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: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)

Notes

2004-10-30 - This entry represents the installation of a new pipe organ. Identified from the Hinners opus list. Status Note: There 1976 -Database Manager

2015-03-31 - Updated through online information from Hayden Gerdes. -Database Manager

Stoplist

From The Stopt Diapason Spring 2010 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Saint Peter Lutheran Church, Benson, IL
1907 Hinners organ

Great (Manual I):
8' Diapason (27 basses in facade)
8' Melodia
8' Dulciana (12 basses from 8' Melodia)

Swell (Manual II-Enclosed):
8' Violin Diapason (12 basses offset)
8' Lieblich Gedeckt
8' Salicional (12 basses from 8' Lieblich Gedeckt)
4' Flute Dolce
Tremulant

Pedal:
16' Bourdon

Couplers:
Great in Octaves
Swell to Great 8'
Great to Pedal 8'
Swell to Pedal 8'

 [Received from Connor Annable 2011-08-18.]