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Hinners Organ Co. Opus 980 (1906 )

Evangelical United Lutheran Church: Sanctuary; front
Mount Horeb, WI

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

Images

ca. 1898 - Organ case; keydesk open (Photograph from an archival source: Vintage postcard (cropped), submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

ca. 1898 - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Vintage postcard, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Unknown - Chancel and Organ Case (Postcard Image (ca. 1915) Submitted by William Dunklin/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
11 stops
11 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Has combination trundles

Notes

2012-06-13 - Identified through online information from Will Dunklin. -- This instrument is known from a postcard image c. 1915. -Database Manager

2012-12-18 - Updated through online information from William Dunklin. -Database Manager

2021-11-12 - Relocated to St. Mary's RC Pine Bluff in Cross Point, WI. -Jim Stettner

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist copied from a related OHS Database entry July 1972

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin
Evangelical United Lutheran Church

Hinners Organ Co., Opus 980, 1906 - Original Specifications


    GREAT Organ, Manual I
8'  Open Diapason                61
8'  Melodia                      61
8'  Dulciana                     49
4'  Principal                    61
4'  Flute D'Amour                61

    SWELL Organ, expressive, Manual II
8'  Violin Diapason              61
8'  Lieblich Gedeckt             61
8'  Salicional                   49
4'  Flute Traverse               61
8'  Oboe Gamba                   49
    Sw. Tremolo

    PEDAL Organ
16' Bourdon                      30

COUPLERS (Drawknob over Sw. keys)
Swell to Pedal
Great to Pedal

Swell to Great
Swell Octave to Great

FOOT COMBINATION TRUNDLES
Swell Forte -
Swell Piano -
Great Forte -
Great Piano -

PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell Expression             (bal.)

ACCESSORIES
Bellows signal

NOTES
-The Great Open Diapason basses are in the facade above the key desk.
-The Great Open Diapason, Dulciana, and Principal are of spotted metal.
-Both 4' flutes are of wood.
-The low 12 notes of the Dulciana are in common with the Melodia.
-The Swell Violin Diapason basses are in the facade to the right of the
   key desk, facing the nave.
-The low 12 notes of the Salicional and Oboe Gamba are in common with
   the Lieblich Gedeckt.

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