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Kilgen Organ Co. (1940s?)

Consoles

Main

• Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
• Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
• 2 manuals
• 19 stops
• 32 registers
• 3 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
• Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
• Has combination thumb pistons
• Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

2012-02-10 - Identified through online information from Jack Umholtz. -- Entire instrument under expression in a single chamber. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Approximate stop list taken from memory from the console. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Shamokin, Pennsylvania
First (United) Methodist Church

Kilgen Organ Co.  ca 1940's  2/10

      GREAT

    8' Open Diapason      61m
    8' Melodia            73w
    8' Dulciana           61m
    4' Octave             73m
    4' Flute              61 from Melodia
    2' Super Octave       61 from Octave
    8' Oboe               73 Duplex with SW.
       Chimes
   16' Gt. to Gt.
       Gt. Unison Off
    4' Gt. to Gt.
   16' Sw. to Gt.
    8' Sw. to Gt.
    4' Sw. to Gt.
  
       SWELL

   16' Bourdon            97w/m
    8' Open Diapason      73m 
    8' Stopped Flute      61 from Bourdon
    8' Salicional         73m
    8' Vox Celeste   tc   61m
    4' Flute              61 from Bourdon
2 2/3' Nazard             61 from Bourdon
    2' Piccolo            61 from Bourdon
    8' Oboe               73m...Duplexed with Gt.
       Tremolo            affects entire instrument
   16' Sw. to Sw.
       Sw. Unison Off
    4' Sw. to Sw.

       PEDAL

   16' Bourdon             44w
   16' Lieblich Gedeckt    32 from Sw. Bourdon
    8' Bass Flute          32 from Ped. Bourdon
    8' Gedeckt             32 from Sw. Bourdon
       Gt. to Ped.
       Sw. to Ped.

    2 manual detached stopkey console
      Swell (entire organ) Expression Pedal
      Register Crescendo Pedal

    Entire instrument enclosed in a single chamber opposite the 
    console in the room.

    Instrument releathered (tonal changes unknown) within the 
    last 8 to 10 years.

 [Received from Jack Umholtz 2012-02-12.]

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