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Dobson Pipe Organ Builders (1994)

Our Lady of Good Counsel - The School Sisters of Notre Dame: Our Lady of Good Counsel Chapel
170 Good Counsel Drive
Mankato, MN

Images

2013-03-12 - Chapel interior to rear and organ case (Photograph by Chris Stroh, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2013-03-12 - Console (Photograph by Chris Stroh, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2016-04-06 - Chapel Nave, Balcony, and Organ Case (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

2016-04-06 - Nave, Balcony, and Organ Case (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

2016-04-06 - Console (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Movable Console
3 manuals
44 stops
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1993. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Built for St. Mary of the Sacred Heart, Boston, MA. Electropneumatic pulldowns by William W. Laws in 1927. Moved to Our Lady, Mankato 1975 through OCH. Installed by Richard Lurth. Taken down 1994 for renovations by Dobson Organ Co. -Database Manager

2011-11-21 - Updated through information from Richard C. Greene: -- 1877 - Installed in St. Mary of the Sacred Heart Church,Boston 1922 - Electric action installed by W. W. Laws 1975 - Moved to the Chapel of the Motherhouse of the School Sisters of Notre Dame in Mankato. 1994 - Refurbished by Dobson Organ Co. [From Richard C. Greene November 21, 2011] -Database Manager

2012-07-16 - Updated through online information from Richard C Greene. -Database Manager

2013-07-03 - Updated through online information from John Panning. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from Dobson Pipe Organ Builders web site Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Mankato, Minnesota
School Sisters of Notre Dame - Our Lady of Good Counsel Chapel

Wm. Johnson & Son   Opus 499   1877            3 manuals, 45 stops, 53 ranks
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        GREAT MANUAL                             SWELL MANUAL
    16' Open Diapason        61              16' Bourdon              61
     8' Open Diapason        61               8' Open Diapason        61
     8' Spitz Floete         61               8' Salicional           61
     8' Viol da Gamba        61               8' Stop'd Diapason      61
     8' Doppel Floete        61               8' Quintadena           61
     4' Octave               61               4' Octave               61
     4' Harmonic Flute       61               4' Flauto Traverso      61
 2 2/3' Twelfth              61               4' Violin               61
     2' Fifteenth            61               2' Flautino             61
        Mixture, III rks    183               2' Mixture, II rks     122
        Mixture, IV rks     244           1 1/3' Mixture, III rks    183
     8' Trumpet              61 a            16' Contra Fagotto       61
     4' Clarion              61               8' Cornopeon [sic]      61 a
                                              8' Oboe and Bassoon     61
        SOLO MANUAL                           8' Vox Humana           61
    16' Quintatoen           61               4' Clarion              61
     8' Geigen Principal     61                  Tremolo
     8' Keraulophon          61          
     8' Dulciana             61                  PEDALE
     8' Melodia              61              16' Double Open Diapason 27
     4' Fugara               61              16' Bourdon              27
     4' Flute d'Amour        61              16' Violone              27
     2' Piccolo              61          10 2/3' Quinte               27
     8' Clarionet            61               8' Violoncello          27
                                             16' Trombone             27 a
        COUPLERS                              8' Tromba               27
        Swell to Great
        Solo to Great
        Swell to Solo                         a  Johnson & Son Patent Reeds
        Great to Pedale
        Swell to Pedale
        Solo to Pedale


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2014-10-14]

Websites

Dobson Pipe Organ Builders, Ltd. - Instruments [Our Lady of Good Counsel page] - Photographs, history and description, stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)

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