Better Pipe Organ Database

Carl Barckhoff [Sr] (1883)

St. James Evangelical Lutheran Church
9th and Spear Streets
Logansport, IN

OHS convention: 2007

Images

2006-06-17 - Left Drawknobs (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2006-06-17 - Right Drawknobs (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2006-06-17 - Nave, Gallery, and Organ Case (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2006-06-17 - Gallery and Organ Case (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2006-06-17 - Keydesk (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2006-06-17 - Nave, Gallery, and Organ Case (; digital image by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2006-06-17 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2006-06-17 - Drawknobs (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
21 stops
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)

Notes

2007-07-15 - According to the article in the <i>2007 Organ Atlas</i>: Some tonal modifications in 1946, mechanical replacements by Wicks following 1996 water damage, recent restoration work by Buzard. -Database Manager

2007-10-13 - Updated through online information from Stephen Hall. -- 8-foot Trumpet added to Great by Jean-Paul Buzard in 2004. This was copied from the same stop on another Barckhoff instrument in St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Lancaster, PA. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: 2007 Organ Atlas: Central Indiana Region Date not recorded

Logansport, Indiana
St. James Evangelical Lutheran Church

Carl Barckhoff   1883                          2 manuals, 20 stops, 22 ranks
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        GREAT ORGAN                            SWELL ORGAN
    16' Bourdon               58            8' Swell Diapason        46 b
     8' Open Diapason         58            8' Rohr Flute            58
     8' Melodia               58            8' Salicional            58
     8' Dulciana              46 a          4' Fugara                58
     8' Viola di Braccio      58            4' Harmonic Flute        58
     4' Principal             58            2' Principal             46 c
     4' Flute d'Amour         58            8' Oboe & Bassoon        58
 2 2/3' Twelfth               58               Tremolo
     2' Fifteenth             58
        Mixture III          174               PEDAL ORGAN
                                           16' Open Diapason         27
        COUPLERS                           16' Sub Basse [sic]       27
        Great to Pedal                      8' Violoncello           27
        Swell to Pedal
        Swell to Great

     a  1-12 grooved from Melodia
     b  1-12 grooved from Rohr Flute
     c  1-12 grooved from Salicional

        ACCESSORIES                            PEDAL MOVEMENTS
        Balanced Swell expression shoe         Great to Pedal reversible
        Bellows Signal                         Great Piano
                                               Great Forte

[GREAT, continued]
8' Trumpet (Buzard pipes, scaled from Swell Trumpet of Barckhoff organ in Lancaster, Pa., 49 basses zinc and spotted metal reeds, 9 scroll-tuned spotted metal flue trebles, 58 pipes)

[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2015-07-11]
[additional information from 2007 OHS Atlas 2023-03-01]

Documents

(2013-07-18) Further Information about the 1883 Barckhoff Organ in St. James Lutheran, Logansport, Indiana Monograph by Gerald Frank -Database Manager
(2009-03-09) Technical Description of the Organ Report by Keith Williams -Database Manager
(2009-03-09) The Once and Future 2' Article by Keith Williams -Database Manager