Better Pipe Organ Database

Wm. Schuelke Organ Co. Opus S-10 (1879)

Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church
North Ninth Street
Milwaukee, WI

OHS convention: 1990

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

Images

Unknown - Console ((2011) Photograph by Ryan Mueller/Database Manager)

Unknown - Builder's Nameplate (on casework) ((2011) Photograph by Ryan Mueller/Database Manager)

2014-09-20 - Sanctuary Interior and Chancel (Photograph by Ryan Mueller/Database Manager)

2014-09-20 - Nave, Balcony, and Organ Case (Photograph by Ryan Mueller/Database Manager)

2014-09-20 - Balcony and Organ Case (Photograph by Ryan Mueller/Database Manager)

2014-09-20 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Ryan Mueller/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

2 manuals
36 stops
37 registers
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes

Notes

2004-10-30 - The builder did not use opus numbers to identify his work, but the catalog number S-10 was assigned to this instrument by Elizabeth Towne Schmitt and may be used for reference. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Ventil chests with Barker machine. Action made tubular c. 1900. Rebuilt by Wangerin 1927 as EP on Schuelke chests, some tonal changes. Tonal alterations by Peters, Weiland late 1980's. -Database Manager

2012-01-24 - Updated through online information from Paul Grime. -Database Manager

2013-10-10 - Updated through online information from Richard C Greene. -Database Manager

2018-05-16 - Updated by Thomas L. DeLay <br> Organ likely destroyed by fire 5/15/2018 http://fox6now.com/2018/05/15/huge-fire-breaks-out-at-trinity-evangelical-lutheran-church-in-downtown-milwaukee/ -Database Manager

2018-05-16 - Updated by Joseph Molter -Database Manager

2018-05-17 - Updated by James R. Stettner, who gave this as the source of the information: Online news video on May 15, 2018. <br> <br>Tragically, this organ was destroyed by a 4-alarm fire at the church on May 15, 2018. Online news video from May 16, 2018 shows the interior from a helicopter. The console seems to be extant, but the case and pipework are destroyed. -Database Manager

2025-03-03 - A PBS documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOLpnCCoRUI seems to indicate that some of the chests were salvaged. The building is now in use again, and there is a small organ near the sanctuary. -John Igoe

Stoplist

Stoplist provided by church organist, John Behnke. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Great
16	Principal
8	Principal
8	Hohlfloete
8	Gamba
8	Gedeckt
8	Dulciana
4	Octav
4	Rohrfloete
2-2/3	Quinte
2	Octav
III	Mixtur
8	Trompete
8	Clarionet
	Glocken

Swell
16	Bordon Bass
16	Bordon Discant
8	Geigen Principal
8	Lieblich Gedeckt
8	Salcional
8	Voix Celeste
8	Viola D’amour
4	Fugara
4	Traverse Floete
4	Flute D’Amour
2-2/3	Nasat
2	Piccolo
1-3/5	Tierce
8	Cornopean
8	Oboe
8	Vox Humana
	Tremulant

Pedal
16	Principal
16	Subbass
16	Bordun
8	Octavbass
8	Violoncello
8	Gedecktbass
4	Octav
16	Posaune

 [Received from Paul Grime 2012-01-24.]