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Goulding & Wood, Inc. (2010)

Indiana Landmarks Center: Cook Grand Hall
1201 Central Avenue
Indianapolis, IN

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2021-01-29 - Facade (Photograph by Kati Q. Photography/Kati Q. Gaschler)

2015-07-15 - Console (Photograph by Matt Gerhard/Database Manager)

2011-06-09 - Building Exterior (Photos Courtesy of Indiana Landmarks/Database Manager)

2011-06-09 - Cook Grand Hall Interior and Pipe Façade (Photos Courtesy of Indiana Landmarks/Database Manager)

2011-04-05 - Pipe Façade (Photos Courtesy of Indiana Landmarks/Database Manager)

2011-07-01 - Console (Photos Courtesy of Indiana Landmarks/Database Manager)

2011-07-11 - Console and Pipe Façade (Photos Courtesy of Indiana Landmarks/Database Manager)

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Notes

2012-08-13 - Identified through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -- The organ was rebuilt in 2010. The casework and facade pipes were painstakingly restored along with the rest of the former Sanctuary of Central Avenue Methodist Church, which is now the Cook Grand Hall of the Indiana Landmarks Center. It was impossible to ascertain with reliability the original action, so Goulding & Wood provided new electro-pneumatic slider windchests, and built a new console which has the appearance and feel of a late-19th century detached keydesk. One stop was added, the Pedal Trombone 16, and the pedal compass was extended from 27 to 30 notes. The harp unit from 1921 was restored and reinstalled with the organ. The former Aeoline is now a Celeste. -Database Manager

2012-08-15 - Updated through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -Database Manager

2012-11-10 - Updated through online information from Timothy E. Conyers. -- Sadly, this organ will not be heard often by the general public. Rental fees of the former church sanctuary (the Grand Hall), where the organ is housed, are in excess of $3500.00. Add another $2900.00 for a reception in the Cook Theater (former fellowship hall). In order to rent the facility one must also be a member of the Indiana Landmarks or sign a contract which specifies one must become a member for one year. These high rental fees will definitely discourage any local organist or even the two organ societies of Indianapolis from showcasing this instrument. (Rental fee information supplied by Indiana Landmarks). -Database Manager

2013-07-09 - Updated through online information from Tom Nichols. -- The Pedal 16' Trombone was added by Goulding & Wood, upon suggestion by noted organist Charles H. Webb, former Dean of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. -Database Manager

2017-05-07 - Combined with 4/87 1931 Casavant Op. 1414 that was removed from the Auditorium of the T. Eaton, Ltd., department store in Toronto. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist (Source: "The Diapason," August 2012) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

      Cook Grand Hall; Indiana Landmarks Center 
      (formerly Central Avenue Methodist-Epsicopal Church)
      Indianopolis, Indiana 
      Thomas Sanborn, 1892; Goulding & Wood, 2011
      OHS ID: 50161 
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      GREAT                   SWELL                       PEDAL
   16 Teneroon        16 Bourdon Bass (1-12)           16 Diapason
    8 Diapason        16 Bourdon Treble (13-61)        16 Bourdon
    8 Melodia          8 Violin Diapason                8 Cello
    8 Doppel Flute     8 Unison Bass (1-12)            16 Trombone (new)
    8 Gamba            8 Gedeckt Treble (13-61)           Gt to Pd
    8 Dulciana         8 Salicional                       Gt to Pd Super
    4 Octave           8 Celeste (prev Aeoline)           Sw to Pd 
    4 Concert Flute    4 Principal                        Pedal Combinations on Divisionals
2-2/3 Octave Quint     4 Flute
    2 Super Octave     4 Violina
1-1/3 Mixture III      2 Flageolet
    8 Trumpet          2 Mixture III
    8 Clarinet         8 Bassoon (1-12)
      Tremulant        8 Oboe (13-61)
      Harp             8 Vox Humana
      Sw to Gt           Tremulant
                         Swell Super
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      MIXTURE COMPOSITIONS          PRINCIPAL SCALES
                                                                      MOUTH
GREAT Rank I   Rank II   Rank III   RANK                   SCALE (mm) WIDTH   CUT-UP   REMARKS
   C1 1-1/2    1         1/2        Gt    16 Teneroon        272        1/4      1/4 
 C#26 1-1/3    1         2          Gt     8 Diapason        163        2/9      2/7 
 C#48 5-1/3    1-1/3     2          Gt     4 Octave           89        1/4      1/4   18th halving
                                    Gt 2-2/3 Octave Quint     63        1/4      1/4
SWELL Rank I   Rank II   Rank III   Gt     2 Super Octave     49        1/4      1/4 
   C1 2        1-1/2     1          Gt 1-1/3 Mixture III      39        1/4      2/7
 C#14 2        2-2/3     1
 C#38 2        2-2/3     1-1/3      Sw     8 Violin Diapason 149        1/4      1/4   17th halv'g 
  C49 4        2-2/3     4          Sw     4 Principal        85        1/4      1/4 
                                    Sw     2 Mixture          53        1/4      1/4
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[Received online from T. Daniel Hancock, 2012-04-25]

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