Better Pipe Organ Database

Hook & Hastings Opus 1538 (1892)

First Baptist Church: Sanctuary
116 W. Main Street
Ionia, MI

OHS convention: 1995

Images

Unknown - Chancel, Keydesk, and Organ Case (Photo in the OHS Library and Archives; image courtesy of Bynum Petty/Database Manager)

2010-08-11 - Organ Case and Keydesk (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-08-11 - Sanctuary Interior, Chancel, and Pipe Facade (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-08-11 - Organ Case (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-08-11 - Keydesk (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-08-11 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-08-11 - Drawknobs (left) (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-08-11 - Drawknobs (right) (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-08-17 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/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
13 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: None

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1995. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Blower added by Hinners 1922. Overhauled 1944-45. -Database Manager

2010-08-25 - Updated through on-line information from Chad Boorsma. -- The organ was thoroughly cleaned approximately 15 years ago by Bill Swem. Other than the addition of a blower, the organ appears to be in its original condition. -Database Manager

2010-08-30 - Updated through on-line information from Chad Boorsma. -- According to the Ionia Sentinel (December 15, 1892), the organ was dedicated December 9, 1892, with Miss Lizzie Shuster at the console. She "showed excellent knowledge of the instrument and technical skill in bringing out its good qualities of tone and volume." -Database Manager

2014-03-19 - The congregation held its last service on October 28, 2012. The building now houses The Well, a Wesleyan congregation. From online photos, it appears that the organ is still in place. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist taken from the console August 11, 2010

Ionia, Michigan
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

Hook & Hastings    Opus 1538    1892     10 ranks
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    GREAT                               COUPLERS (Drawknob)
8'  Open Diapason           58          Sw. to Ped.
8'  Dulciana                58          Gr. to Ped.
8'  Melodia                 46
8'  Unison Bass             12          Sw. to Gr.
4'  Octave                  58
2'  Fifteenth               58
                                        ACCESORIES
                                        Bellows Signal
    SWELL (Expressive)
8'  Viola             (tc)  46
8'  Stopᵈ Diapason    (tc)  46          PEDAL MOVEMENTS
8'  Stopᵈ Diap. Bass        12          Swell Expression    (bal.)
4'  Flute Harmonique        58
8'  Oboe              (tc)  46
8'  Bassooon                12
    Tremolo


    PEDAL:
16' Ped. Bourdon            27


[Received online from Chad Boorsma • August 24, 2010]