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Wm. Johnson & Son Opus 647 (1885)

First Presbyterian Church
915 Court Street
Saginaw, MI

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


Images


Unknown - Front of church with organ centered in chancel (Photo in church archieves, courtesy of Gregory Largent (ca. 1885)/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main


Notes

2015-08-13 - An original installation. Identified by John Igoe, using information found in Johnson Organs, 1844-1898: Wm. A Johnson, Johnson Organ Co., Johnson & Son: a documentary issued in honor the two hundredth anniversary of his birth, 1816-2016 / by Scot L. Huntington, Len Levasseur, Barbara Owen, Stephen L. Pinel, and Martin R. Walsh. Cranbury, New Jersey: The Princeton Academy of the Arts, Culture, and Society, 2015.. -- -Database Manager

2017-06-16 - Updated by Gregory H. Largent, naming this as the source of information: Church archives.<br> The organ no longer exists. When replaced by 1930 Möller Opus 5848 parts of the organ went to another church or were scrapped. -Database Manager


Stoplist

Original document from Gregory H. Largent. Source: From church's historical files. 2017-06-16

Saginaw, MI
First Presbyterian Church

Organ by Wm. Johnson & Son Opus 647

Great Organ

8 ft.		Open Diapason		metal
8 ft.		Viola da Gamba		metal
8 ft.		Dulciana		metal
8 ft.		Melodia			wood
4 ft. 		Octave			metal
4 ft.		Flute d’Amour		wood, metal
2 2/3 ft.	Twelfth			metal
2 ft.		Fifteenth		metal

Swell Organ

16 ft.		Bourdon Bass		wood
16 ft.		Bourdon			wood
8 ft.		Open Diapason		lowest wood, metal
8 ft. 		Viola			metal	
8 ft.		Aeoline			metal
8 ft.		Voix celeste		metal
		(bottom 12 from Aeoline)
8 ft.		Stopped Diapason	wood
4 ft.		Flute Harmonique	metal
4 ft.		Violin			metal
2 ft.		Flautino		metal
2 ft.		Cornet Dolce III ranks	metal
8 ft.		Cornopean 		metal
8 ft.		Basoon			metal
8 ft. 		Oboe			metal
8 ft.		Vox Humana		metal

Pedal Organ

16 ft.		Double Open Diapason	wood
16 ft.		Bourdon			wood
		

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