Residence: Rev. Jon Wehrle
Williamston, MI
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
Images
August 2020 - Blowers (Photograph by Joe Granger/Joe Granger)
August 2020 - Pipework (Photograph by Joe Granger/Joe Granger)
August 2020 - Pipework (Photograph by Joe Granger/Joe Granger)
August 2020 - Percussion (Photograph by Joe Granger/Joe Granger)
August 2020 - Pipework (Photograph by Joe Granger/Joe Granger)
August 2020 - Pipework (Photograph by Joe Granger/Joe Granger)
August 2020 - Pipework (Photograph by Joe Granger/Joe Granger)
August 2020 - Pipework (Photograph by Joe Granger/Joe Granger)
August 2020 - Pipework (Photograph by Joe Granger/Joe Granger)
August 2020 - Pipework (Photograph by Joe Granger/Joe Granger)
August 2020 - Pipework (Photograph by Joe Granger/Joe Granger)
August 2020 - Great Room mezzanine with chamber grille (Photograph by Joe Granger/Joe Granger)
Consoles
Console 1
- Organ type: Horseshoe
- 3 manuals
- Key action Type: Electrical
- Stop action Type: Electrical
- Stop layout Type: Stop Keys in Horseshoe Curves
- 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: Adjustable Combination Pistons
- Has combination thumb pistons
Notes
2020-09-11 - In a March 19, 2018 online article in The Detroit News entitled, *How $42K-a-year priest built mansion worth millions*, it states, "Wehrle, who plays the organ, said he wanted to build a house big enough to hold three theater pipe organs he had bought from around the country. The living room had to be large enough to allow the sound from 32 sets of pipes to unfurl, he said."
Joe Granger, owner of J. Granger Pipe Organs of Lansing who has surveyed the unplayable instrument and posted it for sale on Facebook's Pipe Organ Garage Sale stated that one of the organs was a complete 7-rank Wurlitzer originally built for the Elm Theater in Philadelphia, then reissued to First Presbyterian in Coldwater Michigan. However only four of the original ranks remain. -Jim Stettner
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