Ascension Episcopal Church
13216 Detroit Avenue
Lakewood, OH
Images
2023-11-28 - Swell chamber (Photograph by Davis Badaszewski/Davis Badaszewski)
2023-11-28 - Great chamber (Photograph by Davis Badaszewski/Davis Badaszewski)
2023-11-28 - More original Victorian Era pipework from an unknown builder (Photograph by Davis Badaszewski/Davis Badaszewski)
2023-11-28 - Original Victorian Era pipes from an unknown builder (Photograph by Davis Badaszewski/Davis Badaszewski)
2017-07-21 - Organ Chambers (Photograph by Matthew Buller/Database Manager)
2017-07-21 - Console (Photograph by Matthew Buller/Database Manager)
2017-07-21 - Coupler Tabs (Photograph by Matthew Buller/Database Manager)
2017-07-21 - Great and Choir Stop Tabs (Photograph by Matthew Buller/Database Manager)
2017-07-21 - Swell and Pedal Stop Tabs (Photograph by Matthew Buller/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- 3 manuals
- 22 stops
- 28 registers
- Key action Type: Electrical
- Stop action Type: Electrical
- Manual compass: 61 notes
- Pedal compass: 32 notes
Notes
2017-08-13 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ.
<br>Identified by Matthew Buller, who has heard or played the organ.<br>The year that Holtkamp built the organ is unknown to the entry contributor. It probably was built in the 1980's or early 1990's. -Database Manager
2023-11-03 - Church of the Ascension’s Pipe Organ, A History
The instrument’s life began as a convent organ in 1842. Ascension’s original frame church, located next to our present structure, was built in 1875, this bellows-operated organ was purchased, moved, and installed here in its new home. In 1918 when the present church building was completed, The Voeteler, Holtkamp, Sparling Organ Company installed, augmented, and electrified the 1842 instrument in Ascension’s new church building. A storm in the mid-1970’s storm caused extensive water damage to the pipe organ’s chambers and the instrument began to fail. In 1980, Mr. William Ellenberger was commissioned to remove, rebuild, reconfigure, and add two additional ranks. By the late 1990’s, the original console started to show its age and the appearance of many winding problems made it impossible to continue using the organ. In 2000, a capital improvement project was initiated to restore, upgrade, rebuild the loft, and augment Ascension’s pipe organ. The Holtkamp Organ Company completed this task in the fall of 2003. Today’s Ascension pipe organ is a three-manual instrument consisting of 23 ranks in four divisions. Two ranks from the original 1842 convent organ are still part of the instrument today. -Davis Badaszewski
Stoplist
Source: Original document from Matthew Buller 2017-08-16
GREAT Principal 8, Rohr Bourdon 8, Octave 4, Open Flute 4, Mixture III, Trumpet 8, Chimes, , 4 ([Great to Great])
SWELL (Expressive) Gedeckt 8, Salicional 8, blank, Principal 4, Rohr Flute 4, Nasard 2⅔, Principal 2, Gedeckt 2, Rohr Flute 1⅗, Quinte 1⅓, Trumpet 8, blank, Tremolo, , 16 ([Swell to Swell]), 4 ([Swell to Swell])
CHOIR (Expressive) Hohl Flöte 8, Dulciana 8, Voix Celeste (tc) 8, Quintaten 4, Principal 2, Clarinet 8, Tremolo
PEDAL Bourdon 16, Quintaten 16, Principal 8, Flute 8, Principal 4, Trumpet 16
INTER-DIVISIONAL COUPLERS Swell to Pedal (8,4), Great to Pedal, Choir to Pedal, , Swell to Great (16,8,4), Choir to Great (16,8), , Swell to Choir
FINGER PISTONS Undocumented
TOE STUDS Undocumented
PEDAL MOVEMENTS Swell Expression (balanced), Choir Expression (balanced), Crescendo (balanced)
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