2016-12-06 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Identified by Tom Scheck, based on personal knowledge of the organ. <br>From the program for the organ dedication: "The organ in the Presbyterian Church of Hammonton has been built by the Wicks Organ Company of Highland, Illinois, according to designs prepared by Allan J. Ontko. The stoplist was evolved in consultation with Stephen Kolarac, the Church Organist. The instrument is conceived along French Neo-classic lines, and has been executed to allow reasonably authentic playing of all major schools of historical organ literature, as well as to provide facilities for the accompaniment of the Church Services. Pipe-scales have been developed from French models, and the Tromplette [sic] is a most uncommon example of the true French concept. Mechanical installation was accompolished with the assistance of Stephen J. Russell of Princeton, New Jersey. Voicing and tonal finishing were accomplished by Allan J. Ontko and Paul Havenstein in the Church Sanctuary, after setting-up of the organ. This organ has been tuned to a non-equal temperament developed by Johann Philipp Kirnberger, one of the last pupils of the great Johann Sebastian Bach. This type of tuning system gives a greater purity in the most used keys, but is not so impure in the most remote keys as to limit transposition. It follows note values which lie within the natural note-order, and gives distinctive tuning 'colours' to the various keys, in opposition to the usual equal-tempered system in which every key is equally impure." -Database Manager
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