St. Lawrence Seminary
301 Church Street
Mount Calvary, WI
Images
2012-09-15 - Building Exterior (Photograph by Rodney J. Weed/Database Manager)
2012-09-15 - Building Exterior (Photograph by Rodney J. Weed/Database Manager)
2012-09-15 - Console (Photograph by Rodney J. Weed/Database Manager)
2012-09-15 - Console (Photograph by Rodney J. Weed/Database Manager)
2012-09-15 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by Rodney J. Weed/Database Manager)
2012-09-15 - Pedal and Swell Stopkeys (Photograph by Rodney J. Weed/Database Manager)
2012-09-15 - Great Stopkeys (Photograph by Rodney J. Weed/Database Manager)
2012-09-15 - Coupler Stopkeys (Photograph by Rodney J. Weed/Database Manager)
Unknown - Console (Photograph from the 1963 Laurentian Yearbook; image supplied by Rodney Weed/Database Manager)
Unknown - Choir and Console (Photograph from the 1963 Laurentian Yearbook; image supplied by Rodney Weed/Database Manager)
1964-09-09 - Chapel Interior, Altar, and Chamber Grillework (on both sides of the brick wall) (Photograph by Rodney J. Weed/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
- 2 manuals
- 3 divisions
- Key action Type: Electrical
- Stop action Type: Electrical
- Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets on Angled Jambs
- 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: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has tutti thumb pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2013-12-19 - An original installation. Identified by Rodney J. Weed, based on personal knowledge of the organ.
-- I played this organ on a regular basis from September, 1960 through May, 1966 while a student at St. Lawrence Seminary. It was the organ in the Chapel built in 1957 and used as a Chapel through 1969. The pipes were located in two Chambers just below the Ceiling on the left (North) and right (South) side of the Sanctuary behind the main altar. There were no visible pipes. I do not know if the entire organ was new with the 1957 Chapel or was a rebuild and enlargement of the organ from the original seminary Chapel. The console and choir area were up in the front to the right (South) of the Sanctuary.<br>When the new Chapel was built in 1969, the Tellers company took pipes from this organ and from the Parish church organ (also a Schaefer) and used them in new 1970 Tellers organ opus 1100. To replace pipes from this organ used in the Tellers organ pipes were used from the Parish Church organ. At the time the intention was to have a usable organ in this building that was being converted to an auditorium/Theater. The console was never moved from its spot when it was a chapel. However that area became a storage room just off stage right. <br>When I visited on September 15, 2012, the console was still in its original place covered with stage materials which would not allow me to put the music rack up. The organ would turn on and some stops would still play but it is basically not useable in its current condition. -Database Manager
2013-12-21 - Updated through online information from Rodney J. Weed. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Stoplist taken from console on 9/15/2012 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Mount Calvary, Wisconsin USA
St. Lawrence Seminary 301 Church St
Schaefer organ Company c. 1957 Opus Unknown
26 speaking stops, 26(?) Ranks, 1391 pipes
GREAT expressive
1. 8' Principal 61
2. 8' Doppel Flute 61
3. 8' Dulciana 61
4. 4' Octave 61
5. 4' Rohr Flute 61
6. 2' Fifteenth 61
7. 8' Trumpet 61
8. 8' Vox Humana 61
SWELL expressive
9. 8' Geigen Principal 61
10. 8' Gedeckt 61
11. 8' Salicional 61
12. 8' Viol Celeste 49 TC
13. 4' Gemshorn 61
14. 4' Flute 61
15. 2 2/3' Nazard 61
16. 2' Flautina 61
17. 1 3/5' Terz 61
18. 8' Fagotto 61
PEDAL expressive
19. 16' SubBass 32
20. 16' Bourdon 32
21. 8' Principal 32
22. 8' Bourdon 32
23. 5 1/3' Quint 32
24. 4' Choral Bass 32
25. 4' Flute 32
26. 2' Octavin 32
COUPLERS
Pedal
Great to Pedal 8' 4'
Swell to Pedal 8' 4'
Swell
Swell to Swell 16' 4'
Tremolo
Great
Great to Great 16' 4'
Swell to Great 16' 8' 4'
Tremolo
Great and Swell are in separate chambers both under separate expression
Crescendo Pedal
Combination Action
6 Generals both thumb pistons and toe studs
Divisionals
4 Great
4 Swell
4 Pedal both thumb pistons and toe studs
Reversible thumb & toe studs for Gt & Sw to Pedal and Tutti
[Received from Rodney J. Weed 2013-12-28.]
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