Saint Salvator Evangelical Lutheran Church: Sanctuary; rear gallery
179 W Church Street
Venedy, IL
OHS convention: 1979
Images
2011-05-01 - Keydesk (Photograph by Photograph by Diane Meyer on 'Respublica', submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2011-05-01 - Organ case and keydesk (Photograph by Photograph by Diane Meyer on 'Respublica', submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2018-12-15 - Organ in rear gallery (Church Facebook page, submitted by James R. Stettner/Jim Stettner)
1979 - Organ case with images of some stop knob faces (Photograph from an archival source: 1979 OHS Handbook, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)
Consoles
Keydesk
- Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
- Console position: Keydesk Attached
- 1 manuals
- 12 stops
- 14 registers
- 2 divisions
- Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
- Stop action Type: Mechanical
- Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
- Manual compass: 54 notes
- Pedal compass: 24 notes
- Pedal Type: Flat Straight
- Expression Type: No Enclosed Divisions
- Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
- Has combination trundles
Notes
2021-08-10 - Though the builder of this instrument is not known for certain, internal evidence suggests that it is the work of J. G. Pfeffer, and it appears to date from 1865. The projecting keydesk and the action date from the 1904 Kilgen rebuild, which was undertaken to "modernize" the organ, according to church records. Originally, the instrument had folding doors covering a recessed keydesk. The organ case and frame are designed to accept a second division, but there are no signs that the organ has. ever had more than one division. A plywood top was installed over the case in the 1975 renovation. An unpublished dissertation on the organ has been written by Richard Haas. * According to The Organ Handbook by Hans Klotz, published by Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, in 1969, " ... the 'Calcant' (Kalkantenruf) ... signals to the person in charge of treadling or cocking the bellows ... "
-- Information from *1979 OHS Handbook*
Since the above publication it has been determined that the organ was probably relocated from Trinity Lutheran, 4th Street, St. Louis, c. 1865 by Pfeffer and not originally built by the Pfeffer firm. -Paul R. Marchesano
Stoplist
Source: 1979 OHS Handbook June 1979
MANUAL (54 notes, unenclosed) Principal 8 (54 pipes; 17 in case), Viole de Gambe (TC) 8 (42 pipes, bass grooved to Gedacht), Hohlflöte 8 (49 pipes with inverted mouths, 5 basses shared w/Prin. 8'), Gedacht 8 (54 pipes), Octave 4 (54 pipes; 16 in case), Flöte Travers 4 (54 pipes; open wood), Mixtur IV 2 (15-17-19-22 ( the 17th is extant but silenced) br. TC, C37), Trompete 8 (54 pipes; installed by Martin Ott), Calcant* (originally a bellows signal which now operates a tremolo)
PEDAL (24 notes) Subbasƒ 16 (24 pipes; stopped wood), Violon Schello [sic] 8 (24 pipes; open wood, inverted mouths), Posƒaune 8 (24 pipes; wooden resonators)
COUPLERS Pedal Coppel
COMBINATIONS Piano (Added by Kilgen), Forte (Added by Kilgen)
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