Better Pipe Organ Database

Garret House (1874)

First Congregational Church / Houghton County Historical Society: Heritage Center
53102 M-26
Lake Linden, MI

Images

2009-08-10 - Church exterior: facade (Photograph from an archival source: Wikipedia; by Andrew Jameson (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First_Congregational_Church_Lake_Linden_MI_2009.jpg), submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Unknown - Organ case/facade in front (Photograph by Janet Dalquist/Database Manager)

2005-10-13 - Facade from an angle (Photograph by Janet Dalquist/Database Manager)

2005-10-13 - Keydesk (Photograph by Janet Dalquist/Database Manager)

2005-10-13 - Pedalboard and hitch-down swell pedal (Photograph by Janet Dalquist/Database Manager)

Unknown - Handle for Bellows (Photograph by Janet Dalquist/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: 25 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Trigger/Hitch-Down Expression
Combination action: None

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1976. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Relocated from Congregational, Calumet in 1880's Building is now a museum. Clarabella is string like. Swell to Great and Tremolo are hook down knobs. 17 pipes of the Open Diapason are in the case. -Database Manager

2007-05-25 - Updated through online information from Helmut Schick. -- The single Pedal stop (16' Bourdon) consists of 13 pipes which repeats pipes 2-13 in the second octave of the pedalboard. The wind is supplied by a modern blower as well as by manual pumping. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist taken from the console ca. 2005

Lake Linden, Michigan
Houghton County Historical Society Heritage Center (former First Congregational Church)

Garret House, 1873-74
Unknown Builder, 1887 - Moving & Re-installation


    GREAT (56n)
8   Open Diapason                56   1-17 en facade
8   Melodia                      44
8   Viol d'Amour           (TC)  44
8   Stopped Diapason Bass        12
4   Principal                    56
4   Flute                        56
2   Fifteenth                    56


    SWELL (Expressive - 56n)
8   Open Diapason                56
8   Clarabella             (TC)  44
8   Stopped Diapason Treble      44
8   Stopped Diapason Bass        12  
4   Violina                      56
8   Hautboy                (TC)  44
    Tremolo

    PEDAL (25n)
16  Bourdon                      13

COUPLERS
Undocumented

NOTES
Hand pump preserved


 [Received from Janet Anuta Dalquist 2014-05-11.]

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