Better Pipe Organ Database

Wigton Pipe Organs (1984)

First Congregational Church UCC
102 Church Street
Romeo, MI

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

Images

2015-11-11 - Sanctuary Interior, Chancel, and Pipe Facade (Photograph by Robert Ross/Database Manager)

2015-11-08 - Console (Photograph by Robert Ross/Database Manager)

2015-11-08 - Manuals and Stopkeys (Photograph by Robert Ross/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
2 manuals
14 stops
16 registers
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 (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2015-02-23 - This entry describes alterations to an existing organ. Identified by Timothy Tikker, based on personal knowledge of the organ. -- Date of original organ installation per church organ history brochure, stating that purchase was authorized 26 July 1890. The Casavant firm rebuilt their organ in 1939. -Database Manager

2015-02-25 - Updated through online information from Timothy Tikker. -Database Manager

2022-11-11 - The church has discontinued with an offshoot Rise UCC: https://www.rise4loveandjustice.org/ Here is a link for an auction for the real estate and improvements- including the pipe organ: https://hibid.com/auction/399953/church-romeo Doesn't seem to say if it sold. -Robert Ross

2024-03-05 - Updated through online information from Robert Ross (email text): Re: Historic pipe organ begun in 1890 Inbox Lisa Rapp <abbeyonmainromeo@gmail.com> Mon, Dec 25, 2023, 3:29 PM to me Hello. Merry Christmas! The pipe organ is no longer there. We tried to salvage it but it was hooked to the pipe closet that we repurposed and needed to cut the power. The gentleman who worked on it said it was not worth keeping. We have another organ if you are interested in it. On Mon, Dec 25, 2023 at 3:18 PM R Ross <438610em@gmail.com> wrote: Hello, I am wondering if the pipe organ from First Congregational is still there and if it is available for practicing. If so, I would be interested in details. Merry Christmas, Robert Ross. -Jim Stettner

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from the console February 22, 2015 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Romeo, Michigan
First Congregational Church, UCC

Casavant Frères Limitée, 1890, 1939; David Wigton, 1984

GREAT (I) 				pipes:

  8’ Principal				  61
  8’ Rohrflöte				  61
  4’ Octave				  61
  2’ Fifteenth				  61
     Mixture III			 183
  8’ Trumpet				  61
 16’ Swell to Great
  8’ Swell to Great
  4’ Swell to Great
     Great Unison Off
  4’ Great to Great

SWELL (II, enclosed)

  8’ Gedeckt				  61
  8’ Viole				  61
  8’ Viole céleste			  49 (from C13)
  4’ Nachthorn				  61
  2’ Blockflöte				  61
  8’ Oboe				  61
     Tremolo
 16’ Swell to Swell
     Swell Unison Off
  4’ Swell to Swell

PEDAL

 16’ Bourdon				  44
  8’ Principal				  44
  8’ Flute				  -- (from 16’ Bourdon)
  4’ Choralbass			          -- (from 8’ Principal)
  8’ Great to Pedal
  8’ Swell to Pedal

Great & Pedal combinations: 1-7 + 0 thumb, 1-4 toe
Swell & Pedal combinations; 1-7 + 0 thumb, 1-4 toe
General cancel, thumb

Great to Pedal reversible, thumb & toe
Sforzando reversible, toe (red light; gives full organ with 8’ & 4’ couplers)

Swell expression
Crescendo pedal (green light; gives full organ with unison couplers)

Current light (white)

Mixture composition:

C1    19 22 26
F#19  15 19 22
F#43  12 15 19
F#55   8 12 15


 [Received from Timothy Tikker 2015-02-26.]

Documents

History of the Congregational Church Organ Church brochure -Database Manager