Better Pipe Organ Database

Votteler-Hettche Co. (1907)

Reformed Church/Bloomville UCC
Bloomville, OH

Images

2019-11-13 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by Don Daley/Database Manager)

2019-11-13 - Keydesk (Photograph by Don Daley/Database Manager)

Unknown - Organ Case and Facade (Photograph by Don Daley (November 2019)/Database Manager)

Unknown - Left Stop Jamb (Photograph by Don Daley (November 2019)/Database Manager)

Unknown - Right Stop Jamb (Photograph by Don Daley (November 2019)/Database Manager)

Unknown - Chancel and Organ Case, ca. 1910. (Vintage Postcard; image courtesy of William Dunklin/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
10 stops
10 registers
3 divisions
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: None

Notes

2014-09-14 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Identified by William Dunklin, using information found in vintage post card. -- Vintage postcard shows a 2 manual pipe organ in a chamber at the front left as looking at the altar. The case consists of a polychromed pipe fence of 8 foot basses above a simple paneled case. The console is attached with stops in terraced jambs. -Database Manager

2020-11-11 - A set of chimes with a pneumatic action was added to the organ at an unknown date after it was installed. The bellows for the chimes wind supply is mounted to a door into a closet where the chimes are mounted. -- Information provided by Don Daley -Paul R. Marchesano

Stoplist

Information provided by Don Daley Source: Taken from console 11/10/2020

Votteler-Hettche Co. (1907)
Reformed Church/Bloomville UCC
Bloomville, OH

GREAT
8' Open Diapason
8' Dulciana
8' Melodia
4' Flute D'Amour

SWELL
8' Violin Diapason
8' Oboe Gamba
8' Aeolina
8' Stopped Diapason
4' Flute Harmonic
   Tremolo

PEDAL
16' Bourdon

Swell to Great
Swell to Pedal
Great to Pedal
Bellows Signal

Chimes (added at a later unknown date)