Better Pipe Organ Database

Wangerin-Weickhardt Co. (1919)

St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church / St. John's On the Hillside Lutheran Church
804 W Vliet Street
Milwaukee, WI

Images

2011-04-10 - Church Exterior (Photograph by John J. Miller/Database Manager)

2011-04-10 - Console (Photograph by John J. Miller/Database Manager)

2011-04-10 - Balcony, Console, and Organ Case (Photograph by John J. Miller/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
2 manuals
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys 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)
Combination action: Computerized/Digital
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons

Notes

2013-04-12 - This is a rebuild of an existing organ. Identified by John J. Miller, based on personal knowledge of the organ. -- -Database Manager

2015-04-22 - Updated through online information from John J. Miller. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from console August 19, 2014. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Milwaukee, Wisconsin
St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church
804 W Vliet St.

Wangerin-Weickhardt Organ Co., 1919 (Originally Carl Barckhoff Organ Co., 1890)

GREAT (unenclosed)
  16' Open Diapason (facade)
   8' Open Diapason I
   8' Open Diapason II
   8' Doppel Floete
   8' Melodia
   8' Gamba
   8' Gemshorn
   8' Dulciana
   4' Octave
   4' Flute Harmonic
   2' Fifteenth
   III Mixture
   8' Trumpet*
       Chimes
       Great to Great Sub
       Great to Great Super
       Swell to Great Sub
       Swell to Great Unison
       Swell to Great Super

SWELL (enclosed, under expression)
  16' Bourdon
   8' Open Diapason
   8' Stopped Diapason
   8' Concert Flute
   8' Viole D'Orchestre
   8' Viole Celeste
   8' Salicional
   8' Voix Celeste
   4' Fugara
   4' Flauto Traverso
   4' Gemshorn
   2' Piccolo
   III Mixture
   8' Trumpet
   8' Oboe
   8' Vox Humana**
       Tremulant
       Swell to Swell Sub
       Swell to Swell Super

PEDAL
  32' Subbass Harmonics***
  16' Open Diapason (wood)
  16' Violone
  16' Subbass
  16' Bourdon
 10 2/3' Quinte
   8' Octave Bass
   8' Violoncello
   4' Principal***
  16' Trombone (wood resonators)
  16' Contra Trumpet***
   8' Trumpet***
   4' Clarion***
       Great to Pedal Unison
       Great to Pedal Super
       Swell to Pedal Unison
       Swell to Pedal Super

*Original Weickhardt stop tab: 8' Tuba
**Under separate expression located behind Great division
***Not original to 1919 Weickhardt specification; these unifications were added at the time of the new combination action



 [Received from John J. Miller 2015-02-16.]