2003-12-23 - Chancel and Pipe Facade (Photograph by Linda P. Fulton/Database Manager)
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1990 -Database Manager
Stoplist copied from attached console, Dec. 2005 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Ripley, Ohio Centenary United Methodist Church Votteler-Hettche Organ Co., Cleveland, Ohio, 1904 (also previously reported as 1899) 2 manual and pedal; mechanical action Manual compass 61 notes; Pedal compass 30 notes. 10 ranks; 543 pipes Great (4 ranks, unenclosed) Open Diapason 8’ 61 pipes (1-24 used in case) Melodia 8’ 49 pipes Dulciana 8’ 49 pipes Principal 4’ 61 pipes (*Melodia and Dulciana each draw their 8’ octave from a common stopped wood bass of 12 pipes) Swell (5 ranks, enclosed in swell box) Violin Diapason 8’ 61 pipes Stopped Diapason 8’ 61 pipes Oboe Gamba 8’ 49 pipes(1-12 from Violin Diapason) Aeolina 8’ 49 pipes(1-12 from Stopped Diapason) Flute Harmonic 4’ 61 pipes Tremolo Pedal (1 rank) Bourdon 16’ 30 pipes Couplers: Great to Pedal (8’) Swell to Pedal (8’) Swell to Great (8’) Balanced swell pedal (mechanical linkage) Tremolo Note: Besides the 24 speaking pipes in the case, there are 7 non-speaking pipes; these are the three pipes in each of the “towers” left and right, and the center pipe of the facade. Chimes (25 tubes, G to G, played from small size electric keyboard mounted under right end of Great manual; chimes added to organ many years after original construction) This organ was originally hand-pumped, and handle for doing so and feeder (bellows) are still extant. The person blowing the organ entered the small door in the left side of the organ front casework, and worked inside the case, therefore hidden from the view of the congregation. Some years ago, an electric blower was added to the instrument. Except for this, and the addition of the chimes, the organ is believed to be unchanged from the time of its installation. [Received from Richard M. Watson 2013-01-05.]
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