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Holtkamp Organ Co. Opus Job No. 1877 (1971)

College of Wooster: McGaw Chapel
University at College
Wooster, OH

Images

Unknown - Church exterior (Photograph by Flickr.com, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2015-07-20 - Console, Organ Cases, and Pipe Display (Photograph by John W. Rohr Jr./Database Manager)

2003-05-21 - Chapel Interior, Chancel, and Pipe Display (Unidentified Photographer/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Non-Traditional Style, As Consoles by Holtkamp, Schlicker, et al
Console position: Movable Console
3 manuals
47 stops
53 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
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: Computerized/Digital
SSLS
Has sequencer
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

2010-02-27 - Identified through online information from Eric J. Gastier. -Database Manager

2011-08-23 - Updated through online information from Eric J. Gastier. -Database Manager

2022-10-31 - The Great division wind chest is a typical Walter Holtkamp Sr. slider chest from Opus 1661, 1953. Others are EP. -Burton K Tidwell

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist taken from console and windchests 1992-08-10

Wooster, Ohio
College of Wooster, McGaw Chapel

Holtkamp, Job No. 1661, 1953
Holtkamp, Job No. 1877, 1971 - relocation and rebuild


        GREAT
16’     Quintadena               61 pipes
8’      Principal                61 pipes
8’      Spitzgambe               61 pipes
8’      Gedackt                  61 pipes
4’      Octave                   61 pipes
4’      Spitzflöte               61 pipes
2-2/3’  Quinte                   61 pipes
2’      Super Octave             61 pipes
II      Sesquialtera            122 pipes
IV      Mixture                 244 pipes
III     Scharf                  183 pipes
16’     Dulzian                  61 pipes
8’      Trumpet                  61 pipes


        SWELL (Expressive)
16’     Bourdon                  73 pipes
8’      Geigen Prin.             61 pipes
8’      Gamba                    61 pipes
8’      Voix Celeste       (FF)  56 pipes
8’      Rohrflöte     (ext. 16)  --
4’      Principal                61 pipes
4’      Bourdon                  61 pipes
2’      Octave                   61 pipes
1-1/3’  Larigot                  61 pipes
III     Fourniture              183 pipes
II      Cymbale                 122 pipes
16’     Basson                   61 pipes
8’      Trompete                 61 pipes
4’      Clairon                  61 pipes


        POSITIV
8’      Copula                   61 pipes
4’      Prestant                 61 pipes
4’      Rohrflöte                61 pipes
2-2/3’  Nazard                   61 pipes
2’      Blockflöte               61 pipes
1-3/5’  Tierce                   61 pipes
1’      Sifflöte                 61 pipes
III     Scharf                  183 pipes
8’      Cromorne                 61 pipes


        PEDAL
32’     Subbass          (res.)  --
16’     Principal                32 pipes
16’     Subbass                  32 pipes
16’     Quintadena         (Gt)  --
16’     Bourdon            (Sw)  --
8’      Octave                   32 pipes
8’      Flauto                   32 pipes
4’      Choralbass               32 pipes
4’      Nachthorn                32 pipes
2’      Gemshorn                 32 pipes
IV      Mixture                 128 pipes
II      Rauschpfeife             64 pipes
16’     Posaune                  44 pipes
16’     Dulzian            (Gt)  --
8’      Trumpet     (ext. Pos.)  --
4’      Schalmey                 32 pipes


        COUPLERS
Swell to Pedal
Great to Pedal
Positiv to Pedal

Swell to Great
Positiv to Great 16’
Positiv to Great

Swell to Positiv


         FINGER PISTONS
Undocumented


         TOE STUDS
Undocumented


         PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell Expression                   (bal.)
Crescendo                          (bal.)


ACTION: E-P slider (Gt) & E-P Pitman

VOICES: 46

STOPS: 52

RANKS: 62

PIPES: 3,366


[Received on line from Eric J. Gastier  February 27, 2010.]
[Updated by James R. Stettner  September 2, 2023.]

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