Better Pipe Organ Database

Kilgen Organ Co. (1954)

Zion U.C.C.: Sanctuary; front
14804 113th Ave.
Dyer, IN

Images

2020-12-06 - Kilgen 7710 console (Photograph by Robert Bowie/Robert Bowie )

2020-11-17 - Windchest during tuning (Photograph by Robert Bowie /Robert Bowie )

2020-11-17 - Pipework (Photograph by Robert Bowie /Robert Bowie )

2020-08-02 - Console (Photograph by Robert Bowie/Robert Bowie)

08/11/2019 - Builder's nameplate (Photograph by Robert Bowie /Robert Bowie )

08/02/2020 - Console (Photograph by Robert Bowie /Robert Bowie )

August 2015 - Organ pipes in center chamber (Photograph by Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main (chancel)

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
2 manuals
6 stops
26 registers
1 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo
Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons

Notes

2020-07-30 - Identified via email from parishioner Robert Bowie on July 29, 2020 - who wrote, *"Our church has a Kilgen we bought second hand in 1952 for $1250.00."* -Jim Stettner

2020-08-04 - according to records I was able to go through today at the parish, Fabry organ builders of Antioch, IL maintains our organ and it is a 6 rank not a 4 rank as I previously mentioned. waiting to get into archives as to who installed it. -Robert Bowie

2020-12-07 - Finally got access to the old church records. This was actually bought NEW from Kilgen in 1954 for $6,000. It was installed by Kilgen! -Robert Bowie

Stoplist

Source: Taken from submitted photos August 3, 2020

Dyer, Indiana
Zion U.C.C.

KILGEN ORGAN CO., Opus ____, 1954 - Original Specifications


GREAT (Expressive)                           COUPLERS
8'     Diapason                  61          None
8'     Gedeckt             (Sw)  –-
8'     Salicional          (Sw)  –-
8'     Dulciana                  61          FINGER PISTONS
4'     Principal                 12          Swell & Pedal                 1 - 4
4'     Flute d'Amour       (Sw)  –-          Great & Pedal                 1 - 4
4'     Dulcet                    12
2 2/3' Twelfth                    7
2'     Fifteenth                  5          TOE STUDS
       Chimes                   (2_)         Undocumented


SWELL (Expressive)                           PEDAL MOVEMENTS
16'    Lieblich Bourdon    (tc)  –-          Expression                   (bal.)
8'     Diapason            (Gt)  --          Crescendo                    (bal.)
8'     Quintadena         (Syn)  –-
8'     Gedeckt                   61
8'     Salicional                61
8'     Voix Celeste        (tc)  49
4'     Flute d'Amour             12
2 2/3' Nazard                     7
2'     Flautino                   5
8'     Oboe                      61
       Tremolo
                                             ACTION: Electro-Pneumatic unit

PEDAL (Expressive)                           VOICES: 6
16'    Bourdon             (Sw)  12
8'     Diapason            (Gt)  –-          STOPS: 26, inc. chimes
8'     Gedeckt             (Sw)  –-
8'     Salicional          (Sw)  –-          RANKS: 6
8'     Dulciana            (Gt)  –-
4'     Principal           (Gt)  –-          PIPES: 426


NOTES
The organ was a new installation by the builder and cost $6,000.00 The pipes
are in a central chamber at the front of the room behind the communion table.
The console is in fixed position on the right.

Sources: Submitted photos


Zion U.C.C.
14804 113th Ave.
Dyer, IN. 46311 
(219) 365-5288                               Documented: August 3, 2020