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Geo. Kilgen & Son, Inc. Opus 5185 (1933)

Campton Baptist Church: Sanctuary; front
1345 NH Rte 175
Campton, NH

Images

1982 - Keydesk: manuals, stops, and pedalboard (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

1982 - Organ case in front, left corner (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2015-12-15 - Organ case (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2016-07-31 - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page (photo by pastor), 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
2 manuals
9 stops
9 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons

Notes

2021-03-11 - Identified from the Kilgen ledgers donated by the St. Louis Pipe Organ Co., and compiled by Elizabeth Towne Schmitt, April 1997. The entry indcates that this was a used organ. -Jim Stettner

2021-04-09 - This was the refurbishing without tonal or mechanical changes by Geo. Kilgen & Son, Inc. of a used tubular-pneumatic Wicks which mst have been taken in-trade again the cost of a new organ. -Jim Stettner

2021-04-09 - There is a discrepancy on the factory stoplist document. It lists the Pedal compass as CCC----F, 30 notes. But on the specification it gives the Ped. 16 Ft. Bourdon as 27 pipes. And indeed, the pedlboard is 27 notes. -Jim Stettner

Stoplist

Stoplist document courtesy of William T. Van Pelt Source: Stoplist taken from Kilgen factory document October 10, 1933

Campton, New Hampshire
Campton Baptist Church

WICKS ORGAN CO., Opus ___, 19__ - Original Specifications
Geo. Kilgen & Son, Inc., Opus 5185, 193_ - Refurbishing & Installation


GREAT
Gr.  8 Ft.  Open Diapason        61  1-19 facade
Gr.  8 Ft.  Melodia              61
Gr.  8 Ft.  Dulciana             61
Gr.  8 Ft.  Octave               61  1-8 facade

Great to Great 4'

SWELL (Expressive)
Sw.  8 Ft.  Stop Diapason        61
Sw.  8 Ft.  Salicional           49  1-12 grooved to Stop Diapason
Sw.  4 Ft.  Flute Harmonic       61
Sw.  8 Ft.  Oboe Gamba     (tc)  49
            Tremolo

PEDAL
Ped. 16 Ft. Bourdon              27

COUPLERS
Swell to Pedal
Great to Pedal

Swell to Great 16'
Swell to Great 8'
Swell to Great 4'

FINGER PISTONS
6 pistons

FOOT TRUNDLES
None

PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell Expression          (bal.)
Crescendo                 (bal.)