Better Pipe Organ Database

David Shooks (1961)

Highland Hills Baptist Church: Sanctuary
1415 Northrup Ave. NW
Grand Rapids, MI

Images

2011-02-03 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2011-02-03 - Sanctuary Interior and Chancel (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2011-02-03 - Sanctuary Interior and Chamber Grillework (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2011-02-03 - Sanctuary Interior and Chancel (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2011-02-03 - Chancel and Chamber Grillework (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2011-02-03 - Console and Nave (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2011-02-03 - Console (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
2 manuals
26 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: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2011-02-04 - Identified through on-line information from Chad Boorsma. -- The organ was reworked to some degree in the late 1960's by Mutchler Organ Company. This included the addition of some parts from Pels. Two digital stops were added by Donald Haan in 1999. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from the console (February 3, 2011) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Grand Rapids, Michigan
HIGHLAND HILLS BAPTIST CHURCH

Built by David Shooks in 1961
Reworked by Mutchler Organ Company in the late 1960's
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GREAT:                    SWELL:                     PEDAL:
    8' Open Diapason 61       8' Rohrflute 73         16' Violone 32
    8' Bourdon 61             8' Viola 61             16' Lieblich Gedeckt 12 [SW]
    8' Dulciana 61            8' Celeste [TC] 49       8' Gedeckt [SW]
    4' Octave 61              4' Geigen Octave 61      4' Flute [SW]
    4' Bourdon 12             4' Harmonic Flute 61    16' Fagotto 12 [SW]
    4' Dulcet 12          2 2/3' Nazard                8' Fagotto [SW]
2 2/3' Nazard 61              2' Flautino 12          
    2' Fifteenth 61           8' Trumpet 61
   II  Mixture 122            8' Fagotto 61            * Digital stops added
       Tremolo                   Tremolo                 by Don Haan in 1999.
       Digital *                 Digital *

[Received online from Chad Boorsma • February 3, 2011]