Better Pipe Organ Database

Unknown Builder (1964)

First Christian Reformed Church: Sanctuary
1450 Catherine Ave.
Muskegon, MI

Images

2010-07-01 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-07-01 - Sanctuary, Chancel, and Chamber Grillework (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-07-01 - Console and Nave (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-07-01 - Console (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
2 manuals
18 stops
21 registers
3 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: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2010-07-02 - Identified through online information from Chad Boorsma -- The organ, Austin's Opus 2067, was originally built for the congregation's previous facility. It was relocated to the new sanctuary in 1964 but not altered in any way. -Database Manager

2013-09-16 - The congregation held its final worship service on September 15, 2013. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from the console (July 1, 2010) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Muskegon, Michigan
FIRST CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH

Austin Organ Company    Opus 2067    1942     20 ranks
_________________________________________________________________________________

GREAT:                       SWELL:                       PEDAL:
    8' Open Diapason 73        16' Bourdon 12              16' Open Diapason 32
    8' Doppel Flute 73          8' Open Diapason 73        16' Bourdon 32
    8' Gemshorn 73              8' Stopped Diapason 73     16' Dolce Bourdon [SW]
    8' Dulciana 73              8' Salicional 73            8' Octave 12
    8' Unda Maris [TC] 61       8' Voix Celeste [TC] 61
    4' Octave 73                4' Harmonic Flute 73
2 2/3' Twelfth 61             III  Dolce Cornet 183
    2' Fifteenth 61             8' Oboe 73
    8' Trumpet 73                  Blank [2]
       Blank                       Tremolo
       Tremolo

[Received online from Chad Boorsma • July 1, 2010]

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#13523†* - Austin Organs, Inc. Opus 2067 (1942)