St. Aloysius Roman Catholic Church
1234 Washington Boulevard
Detroit, MI
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
Images
2022-10-12 - Church interior to front and organ chambers (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
Unknown - Church Exterior (Vintage Postcard, courtesy of T. Bradford Willis, DDS (1950s)/Database Manager)
Unknown - Nave, Chancel, and Altar (Vintage Postcard, courtesy of T. Bradford Willis, DDS (1940s)/Database Manager)
1930-03-21 - Church Interior and Altar (Postcard Image Supplied by William Dunklin/Database Manager)
1930-03-21 - Basement Church, Nave, and Balconies (Postcard Image Supplied by William Dunklin/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
- 4 manuals
- 54 registers
- 5 divisions
- Key action Type: Electrical
- Stop action Type: Electrical
- Manual compass: 61 notes
- Pedal compass: 32 notes
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has combination toe pistons
- Has coupler toe pistons
- Has tutti thumb pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2011-07-08 - Identified through online information from Steven E. Lawson. -Database Manager
2011-07-12 - Updated through online information from Steven E. Lawson. -Database Manager
2018-04-03 - Updated by William M. Worden, who has heard or played the organ.<br>
The console was located in a choir gallery on the liturgical south side of the chancel below the pipe chamber and behind the grille that extended upward to cover the pipe chamber as well. That gallery was reached through a door at the front end of the public balcony; that arched-top door is visible at right in the photo captioned "Church Interior and Altar." -Database Manager
2023-03-28 - The unusual three-level design of the church was dictated by the 100'x72' lot size; the church comfortably seats around 2,000. -Jeff Scofield
Stoplist
Diapason (March 1930) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Detroit, Michigan
St. Aloysius Roman Catholic Church
Geo. Kilgen & Son Op. 4516 1933
Electro-pneumatic key and stop action
4 manuals, 54 stops, 30 ranks (if completed: 67 stops, 37 ranks)
Compass: Manuals, 61 notes; Pedal, 32 notes
29 Couplers: 5 Pedal, 10 Great, 4 Swell, 7 Choir, 3 Echo
36 Combons
7 Division Cancels
6 Crescendos: Great/Choir, Swell, Echo, Antiphonal, Register (Crescendo shoe for main organ),
Antiphonal Register
Crescendo Coupler: All Shutters to Swell Shoe.
Great and Choir organs are on the left; Swell organ on the right; Echo is in the ceiling at
the opposite end of the auditorium; Antiphonal organs have not yet been installed. The
Echo organ is playable from the fourth manual as its home position, and from all other manuals
and pedal by couplers.
Stoplist from The Diapason (Mar. 1930); courtesy Jeff Scofield.
Console details from The American Organist (Oct. 1933); courtesy Stephen Schnurr.
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GREAT ORGAN ECHO ORGAN
16' Diapason * 61 16' Still Bourdon [TC]
8' 1st Open Diapason * 61 8' Lieblich Gedeckt 61
8' 2nd Open Diapason * 12 8' Vox Angelica 61
8' Philomela 61 8' Vox Aetheria [TC] 49
8' Gamba 61 8' Quintadena (syn)
8' Gemshorn 61 4' Fern Flute 12
8' Melodia CH 2' Zart Flöte 12
4' Octave 61 8' Vox Humana 61
4' Flute CH Tremulant
Ripieno Minore V 122 Sub
Ripieno Maggiore IX 183 Unison Off
Ripieno Fondamente XI Super
8' Tuba 61 Chimes 20 tubes
Sub
Unison Off PEDAL ORGAN
Super 32' Grand Diapason (resultant)
16' 1st Diapason 32
SWELL ORGAN 16' 2nd Diapason GT
16' Bourdon 73 16' Bourdon 32
8' Diapason 73 16' Lieblich Gedeckt SW
8' Stopped Diapason 12 8' Bass Flute 12
8' Salicional 73 8' Flauto Dolce SW
8' Voix Celeste [TC] 61 8' Cello GT
8' Aeoline 73 16' Tuba (ext. GT) 12
4' Flute d'Amour 12
4' Salicional 12 ECHO PEDAL ORGAN
2' Flautino 12 16' Echo Bourdon 12
8' Cornopean 73 8' Echo Flute EC
8' Oboe 73
8' Vox Humana 73
Tremulant ANTIPHONAL GREAT ORGAN (prep.)
Sub 8' Diapason (61)
Unison Off 8' Stopped Flute (61)
Super 8' Dulciana (61)
4' Flute (12)
CHOIR ORGAN
16' Contra Dulciana [TC] ANTIPHONAL SWELL ORGAN (prep.)
8' Violin Diapason 73 8' Horn Diapason (73)
8' Melodia 73 8' Stopped Flute GT
8' Dulciana 73 8' Keraulophone (73)
8' Violoncello GT 8' Voix Celeste [TC] (61)
4' Flute 12 8' Dulciana GT
4' Dulcet 12 4' Flute GT
2' Piccolo 12 Tremulant
8' Orchestral Oboe (syn)
8' Clarinet 73 ANTIPHONAL PEDAL ORGAN (prep.)
Tremulant 16' Bourdon (32)
Sub 8' Bourdon (12)
Unison Off 8' Flute GT
Super
Harp 49 bars * unenclosed
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2011-07-11.]
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