Better Pipe Organ Database

Wm. A. Johnson Opus 227 (1867)

First Methodist Church
120 S. State Street
Ann Arbor, MI

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

Images

unknown - Choir in front of the Johnson case, historic photograph, undated (Photograph from an archival source: 1995 OHS Handbook, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
2 manuals
24 stops
29 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 25 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Combination action: None

Notes

2013-06-16 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Identified by John Speller, using information found in OHS Organ Handbook 1995 (Lower Michigan), p. 16. -- -Database Manager

2013-06-18 - Updated through online information from John Speller. -Database Manager

2022-02-08 - The Ann Arbor *Peninsular Courier* and *Family Visitant* for 1 August 1867 reported that "The organ for the M.E. Church arrived last week, and is now being put up. It was built by Mr. W. A. Johnson, of Westfield, Mass., and it is believed will prove a very superior instrument. It cost here $3,500. Its capacity is as follows: [stoplist published--see stoplists section] Messrs. C. A. Pierce and A. B. Nye, from the manufactory of Mr. Johnson, are putting the instrument in position." The instrument was opened with an organ concert on Monday, 5 August 1867, by "Prof. [Wm. H.] Johnson, son of the maker; Prof. Meakin, organist of St. John's Church, Detroit; and Prof. [Henry Simmons] Frieze [of Ann Arbor]." -- *1995 OHS Handbook* -Paul R. Marchesano

Stoplist

OHS Organ Handbook 1995 (Lower Michigan), p. 16. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

First United Methodist Church, Ann Arbor, Michigan  

Wm. A. Johnson, Opus 227, 1867

Great: 56 notes

[8']      Open Diapason
[8']      Keraulophon
[8']      Stop'd Diapason Bass
[8']      Clarabella
[4']      Principal
[4']      Flauto Traverso
[2 2/3']  Twelfth
[2']      Fifteenth
          Sesquialtera
[8']      Trumpet

Swell: 56 notes

[8']      Open Diapason
[16']     Bourdon
[8']      Salicional
[8']      Stop'd Diapason Bass
[8']      Stop'd Diapason Treble
[4']      Principal
[4']      Flute
[2']      Flageolett
          Cornet Dolce
[8']      Hautboy
[8']      Bassoon Bass
[16']     Bourdon Sw. Bass

Pedale: 25 notes 

[16']     Double Open Diapason
[8']      Violoncello

Couplers:

          Swell to Great
          Swell to Pedales
          Great to Pedales
          Bellows Signal
          Pedale Check
          Tremolo  

 [Received from John Speller 2013-06-18.]