Better Pipe Organ Database

Wm. Schuelke Organ Co. (1888)

First Baptist Church
101 E. Main Street
Vermillion, SD

Images

2006-11-01 - Façade (1890s Newspaper photograph). (Photograph by Elizabeth Schmitt/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

2 manuals
12 stops
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical

Notes

2004-10-30 - The builder did not use opus numbers to identify his work, but the catalog number S-52 was assigned to this instrument by Elizabeth Towne Schmitt and may be used for reference. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1997 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Tonally altered by A. E. Doutt 1961. Bellows releathered 1980's. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Sooplist: David Schnute from Tracker 11:1:3 [alt] Date not recorded

Vermillion, South Dakota
First Baptist Church

William Schuelke, 1888

GREAT
8'     Open Diapason
8'     Melodia
8'     Dulciana (replaced by 4' flute)
4'     Principal
2-2/3' Twelfth
2'     Fifteenth
  
SWELL
8'     Open Diapason (Moved to 4')
8'     Stopped Diapason
8'     Salicional
4'     Harmonic Flute (Moved to 2')
8'     Oboe-Bassoon (revoiced)
       Tremulant

PEDAL
16'    Subbass

COUPLERS
Sw to Gr
Gr to Ped
Sw to Ped

PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Balanced Swell

MISC. CONTROLS
Bellows Signal

NOTES
Concussion bellows applied to Swell c. 1961 rendering the tremulant
inoperable.  W.P. = 2-3/5"