First Presbyterian Church
200 S. Ashland Avenue
Green Bay, WI
Images
2012-10-20 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Rodney J. Weed/Database Manager)
2011-03-21 - Pipework in Chamber (Photograph by Donald VerKuilen/Database Manager)
2011-03-21 - Console (Photograph by Donald VerKuilen/Database Manager)
2011-03-21 - Console (Photograph by Donald VerKuilen/Database Manager)
2011-03-21 - Pedal Stopkeys (Photograph by Donald VerKuilen/Database Manager)
2011-03-21 - Swell Stopkeys (Photograph by Donald VerKuilen/Database Manager)
2011-03-21 - Great Stopkeys (Photograph by Donald VerKuilen/Database Manager)
2011-03-21 - Great and Pedal Setter Panel (Photograph by Donald VerKuilen/Database Manager)
2011-03-21 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by Donald VerKuilen/Database Manager)
2011-03-21 - Console Pneumatics and Wiring (during dismantling) (Photograph by Donald VerKuilen/Database Manager)
2011-03-21 - Console Pneumatics (during dismantling) (Photograph by Donald VerKuilen/Database Manager)
2011-03-21 - Console Wiring (during dismantling) (Photograph by Donald VerKuilen/Database Manager)
2011-03-21 - Console Wiring (Photograph by Donald VerKuilen/Database Manager)
2011-03-21 - Chamber Screen (Photograph by Donald VerKuilen/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
- 2 manuals
- 10 stops
- 15 registers
- 3 divisions
- Key action Type: Electrical
- Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
- Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets 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)
- Combination action: Setterboard
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has hitchdown couplers
Notes
2012-11-02 - A new organ on the date of its original installation. Identified by Rodney J. Weed, based on personal knowledge of the organ.
-- It was completely rebuilt by J Swartz in 2011-2012 with additional new ranks and completely new console. Most of the Wangerin pipes that were existing in 2011 were used in the rebuild. I was the organist at this church from 1986 to 1993 and this was the organ that I played then. I will be adding pictures of the pipe chamber for the Wangerin organ as installed in 1928 and the 1928 Console. -Database Manager
2012-11-03 - Updated through online information from Rodney J. Weed. -- When I was organist the Swell 8' Viola D'Amour had already been removed and replaced with a poor 8' Trumpet, and the Viola D'Amour pipes had been used for a poor 4' octave on the Great. Sometime after I left a 2' principal was added to the great using the Great to Great 16' coupler tab for the stop. All three of these changes were done on the console by tape over the original console stop & coupler tabs. None of these changes were retained with the 2012 rebuild of this organ. When I played this instrument it was passable but in no way inspiring in any way. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Stoplist taken from photos of the Console taken in 2011 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Green Bay, Wisconsin
First Presbyterian Church
Wangerin Organ Company Opus unknown, 1928
GREAT
8' Open Diapason
8' Concert Flute
8' Viola D'Amour (SW) later replaced with 4' Octave
4' Flute Traverso
Great to Great 16' later used for 2' Principal
Great to Great 4'
Great Unison Off
Chimes
SWELL
8' Stopped Diapason
8' Salicional
8' Voix Celeste (TC)
8' Viola D'Amour later replaced with 8' Trumpet
4' Flute
2 2/3' Quinte
8' Oboe (Syn) (Synthetic made up of 8' Salicional & 2 2/3 Quinte)
8' Vox Humana
Swell to Swell 16'
Swell to Swell 4'
Swell Unison Off
Tremulant
PEDAL
16' Diapason Resultant
16' Bourdon
8' Flute Dolce
Great to Pedal 8'
Great to Pedal 4'
Swell to Pedal 8'
Swell to Pedal 4'
[Received from Rodney J. Weed 2012-11-03.]
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