Better Pipe Organ Database

Charles M. Ruggles (Pipe Organs) Opus 17 (1987)

St. James Episcopal Church
25150 E. River Road
Grosse Ile, MI

OHS convention: 1995

Images

1987-01-01 - Organ case (Ruggles promotional photograph/Database Manager)

2021-08-11 - Organ case at front, left (Church Facebook page/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
13 stops
12 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: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: None

Notes

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

2004-10-30 - Clarionet is from Johnson Op. 506 (1878). -Database Manager

2008-08-05 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Case of oiled black walnut. Manual naturals of bone, sharps of grenadil. Pipe shades of butternut. 3-sectional facade containing 29 pipes arranged: 11-7-11. -Database Manager

Stoplist

OHS Organ Handbook 1995 (Lower Michigan), p. 121. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

St. James Episcopal Church, Grosse Ile, Michigan

Charles M. Ruggles, Olmsted Falls, Ohio, Op. 17, 1987

Great:  

8'      Rohrflöte        56m
4'      Principal        56m
2'      Octave           56m
1 1/3'  Quinte           56m
8'      Trumpet          56m

Swell: (enclosed)

8'      Gedackt          56w
4'      Blockflöte       56w[?m]
2'      Gemshorn         56m
8'      Clarionet        56m
        Tremulant

Pedal:

16'     Subbass           30w
8'      Bourdon           12w, ext.
4'      Octave            30m
8'      Trumpet           Great

Couplers:

        Great to Pedal
        Swell to Pedal
        Swell to Great

Balanced Swell Pedal  

 [Received from John Speller 2013-06-15.]

Websites

St. James Episcopal Church, Grosse Ile, Michigan - Photographs, stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)