Better Pipe Organ Database

W. W. Kimball Co.

First Church of Christ, Scientist
130 Monroe Avenue
Green Bay, WI

Images

2012-08-26 - Console (Photograph by Rodney J. Weed/Database Manager)

2012-08-26 - Church Interior, Chancel, and Chamber Grillework (Photograph by Rodney J. Weed/Database Manager)

2012-08-26 - Pipe Chamber (Photograph by Rodney J. Weed/Database Manager)

2012-08-26 - Pipework (Photograph by Rodney J. Weed/Database Manager)

2012-08-26 - Pipework and Shutters (Photograph by Rodney J. Weed/Database Manager)

2012-08-26 - Great Stopkeys (Photograph by Rodney J. Weed/Database Manager)

2012-08-26 - Swell Stopkeys (Photograph by Rodney J. Weed/Database Manager)

2012-08-26 - Pedal Stopkeys (Photograph by Rodney J. Weed/Database Manager)

2012-08-26 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Rodney J. Weed/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
2 manuals
9 stops
17 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Has crescendo
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

2012-08-29 - Identified through online information from Rodney J. Weed. -- When I stopped to see this organ and photograph it on August 26, 2012, I was shown around by a very nice member of the congregation, Mr. Richard Pence. He told me the organ was a Kimball. The console itself had no nameplate on it. Looking at the available stops on the organ it seems like something from the early 20th Century. Very weak on upper work. No pipes are visible in the church. The entire organ is located in a large chamber in the front of the church located just below the roof. The organ is very well maintained and everything works on it. It is very mellow in its sound, but not inspiring. I have many questions that when I have the chance I will look into them. The organ console has no name plate on it and nothing to say who its maker was or when it was put in the church. I doubt this is the original organ in this building. The cornerstone on this church has two date on it 1889 and 1904. -Database Manager

2012-10-21 - Updated through online information from Rodney J. Weed. -- There is no builder's name plate on the organ. The name of W. W. Kimball was supplied by a church member who was with me the day I visited the organ. -Database Manager

2015-01-11 - Updated through online information from Randy Terry. -- The console is not a Kimball, but a Klann. -Database Manager

2019-10-24 - Updated by Christoph Wahl, who maintains the organ. <br> <br>I inspected the instrument in late August of 2019. It is of nine stops. The original Vox Humana has been replaced with a modern 4\' Principal. The Concert Flute, Traverse Flute, and Piccolo stops on each manual are a single unit stop also extended as the second 16\' in the Pedal. The tenor c Celeste pipes are labeled \"4\' Violina\" and appear to have been shifted an octave to be used at unison pitch. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from the console and August 26, 2012 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Green Bay, Wisconsin
First Church of Christ, Scientist

W. W. Kimball Co.   Opus unknown,  c. 1940's

GREAT

8'   Open Diapason
8'   Dulciana
8'   Concert Flute
4'   Flute D'Amour
4'   Traverse Flute

Chimes

Swell to Great   16'   8'   4'
Great to Great   16'   4'


SWELL

8'   Stopped Diapason
8'   Viola D'Gamba
8'   Viola Celeste (TC)
8'   Concert Flute
8'   Horn
4'   Traverse Flute
2'   Piccolo
8'   Vox Humana

Tremolo

Swell   16'
Swell Unison Off
Swell   4'


PEDAL

16'   Contra Bass
16'   Bourdon
8'    Bass Flute
4'    Flute

Swell to Pedal   8'
Great to Pedal   8'



 [Received from Rodney J. Weed 2012-10-19.]