Better Pipe Organ Database

Kilgen Organ Co. (1957)

Second Reformed Church: Sanctuary
1000 Waverly Road
Grand Haven, MI

Images

2010-07-21 - Console (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-07-21 - Keyboards and Stop Keys (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-07-21 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-07-21 - Console and Chamber Grillework (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-07-21 - Sanctuary Interior and Chancel (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-07-21 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
2 manuals
32 stops
3 divisions
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: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2010-07-22 - Identified through on-line information from Chad Boorsma. -Database Manager

2024-11-07 - As of 06 November 2024, this instrument was listed for sale on the Facebook Marketplace, apparently unaltered and in good condition. -Shawn P. Keith

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from the console (July 21, 2010) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Grand Haven, Michigan
SECOND REFORMED CHURCH

Kilgen Organ Company     1953     18 ranks
_________________________________________________________________________________

GREAT:                      SWELL:                       PEDAL:
    8' Diapason 61              8' Geigen Diapason 61     16' Bourdon 32
    8' Hohlflute 61             8' Stopped Flute 61       16' Gemshorn 12 [GT]
    8' Gemshorn 61              8' Salicional 61           8' Open Diapason [GT]
    8' Unda Maris 61            8' Vox Celeste 61          8' Bass Flute 12
    4' Octave 61                4' Octave Geigen 12        8' Gedeckt [GT]
    4' Flute 12                 4' Flute 12                8' Gemshorn [GT]
    4' Gemshorn 12          2 2/3' Nazard                  4' Flute 12
2 2/3' Gemshorn                 2' Flautino 12            16' Fagotto [pf]
    2' Gemshorn 12            III  Mixture 183             8' Trumpet [GT]
   II  Grave Mixture 122        8' Oboe 61          
    8' Trumpet 61               8' Vox Humana 61
       Tremolo                     Tremolo
       Chimes

[Received online from Chad Boorsma • July 23, 2010]

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#46978†* - Kilgen Organ Co. (1953)