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Hinners Organ Co. (1914)

Images

ca. 1914 - Organ case and facade (Photograph from an archival source: Twin Cities AGO Organ List, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

1914 - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Aitkin Historical Society, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

ca. 1910's - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Vintage Postcard, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

• Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
• Console position: Keydesk Attached
• 1 manuals
• 5 stops
• 9 registers
• 2 divisions
• Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
• Stop action Type: Mechanical
• Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Row Above Top Manual
• Manual compass: 61 notes
• Pedal compass: 30 notes
• Pedal Type: Flat Straight
• Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
• Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2021-01-15 - This is an original installation. Free-standing in a quarter-sawn oak case. 5-sectional façade containing 39 pipes arranged: 7-3-19-3-7. Attached keydesk with a lid that lifts to form a music rack. Stops as drawknobs in a single row above the manual. Pedal 16' Bourdon plays for 15 notes, then mechanically breaks-back and repeats at 32' pitch for the top 15-notes. Windchests were retabled in 1982 (by Jaeckel?). Church has closed. -Jim Stettner

Stoplist

Source: Twin Cities AGO Organ List; comparative with other documented Hinners organs

Aitkin, Minnesota
First Congregational Church of Aitkin

HINNERS ORGAN CO., Opus ___, 1914 - Original Specifications


MANUAL (Expressive except *)                COUPLERS (Drawknob)
8  Ft.  Open Diapason Treble (*) 37         Man. Oct. Coupler
8  Ft.  Open Diapason Bass   (*) 24
8  Ft.  Liebl. Gedackt Treble    37         Pedal Coupler
8  Ft.  Liebl. Gedackt Bass      24
8  Ft.  Viola d'Gamba Treble     37         
8  Ft.  Viola d'Gamba Bass       24         FOOT LEVERS
4  Ft.  Flute Treble             37         Piano -
4  Ft.  Flute Bass               24
        Tremulant                           Forte -


PEDAL (30 notes)                            PEDAL MOVEMENTS
16 Ft.  Ped. Bourdon             15         Swell Expression         (bal.)

        Bellow Signal


ACTION: Mech. Key & Stop    VOICES: 5    STOPS: 9    RANKS: 5    PIPES: 259


NOTES
Free-standing in a quarter-sawn oak case. 5-sectional façade containing 39
pipes arranged: 7-3-19-3-7. Attached keydesk with a lid that lifts to form
a music rack. Stops as drawknobs in a single row above the manual. Pedal
16' Bourdon plays for 15 notes, then mechanically breaks-back and repeats
at 32' pitch for the top 15-notes.


Sources: Twin Cities AGO 'Organ List'; comparison with other documented
         examples of the builder's work from this period.


First Congregational Church
201 Second St. NE
Aitkin, MN. 56431 

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