Better Pipe Organ Database

W. W. Kimball Co. (1929)

Central Reformed Church: Sanctuary
1121 Jefferson Street
Muskegon, MI

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Images

2019-07-17 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

1929-09-12 - Church Exterior (Image from Building Dedication Booklet/Database Manager)

1966-03-03 - Sanctuary Interior and Chancel (Image from Church Anniversary Book/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
19 stops
20 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
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2011-01-23 - Identified through online information from Chad Boorsma -- The organ was a gift from the Langeland family and was installed with blank stop keys for future additions. It was expanded in 1964 by Roscoe Wheeler. The organ was sold ca. 2000 to a man in Grand Rapids and was installed in his home in 2005 by Haan Pipe Organ Company of Grand Rapids. Central Reformed Church disbanded in 2005. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from factory specifications in Building Dedication Booklet Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Muskegon, Michigan
CENTRAL REFORMED CHURCH

W. W. Kimball Co., Opus ____, 1929 - 19 ranks
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GREAT: (Expressive)             SWELL: (Expressive)
  8'  Open Diapason      61       16' Bourdon            73
  8'  Dulciana           61       8'  Open Diapason      73
  8'  Melodia            61       8'  Salicional         73
  4'  Gemshorn           61       8'  Voix Celeste       73
      Tremolo                     8'  Gedeckt            73
      Chimes                      4'  Flute d'Amour      73
                                  2'  Flautino           61
                                  8'  Oboe Horn          73 
CHOIR (Expressive)                8'  Vox Humana         61
  8'  Concert Flute      73                 Tremolo
  8'  Dolce              73
  8'  Unda Maris         73
  4'  Harmonic Flute     73     PEDAL
  8'  Clarinet           73       16' Bourdon            32 
      Tremolo                     16' Gedeckt      (Sw)  --


[Received online from Chad Boorsma • June 25, 2011]

Documents

(1929-03-15) "The Kimball Organ" Description and stoplist. -Database Manager
(1929-03-15) "Dedication Organ Recital" Recital program with program notes -Database Manager

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#47589 - Donald Haan Pipe Organ Service (2005)