Better Pipe Organ Database

Bradford Organ Co. Opus 6 (1990)

St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church
1235 Wilmette Avenue
Wilmette, IL

OHS convention: 2012

Images

2012-05-13 - Console and Organ Case (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2012-05-13 - Sanctuary Interior, Chancel, and Pipe Facades (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2012-05-13 - Left Stop Jambs (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2012-05-13 - Right Stop Jambs (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2012-05-13 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2012-05-13 - Church Exterior (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

2 manuals
27 stops
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Electrical
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes

Notes

2004-10-30 - Seems to have replaced an earlier Wangerin organ; 16' Diapason unit re-used in organ by Bradford in St. Lambert RC, Skokie, Illinois. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Incorporates many old pipes from OCH. Includes most of the pipework from 1873 Johnson Op. 389. -Database Manager

2022-05-25 - From Dedication Program: "Although the models chosen for the facade carvings come from disparate times and places, they express the same linear motion and style as those located in the chancel and on the reredos. The pediment of the main facade in the east transept was part of the canter case on the 1908 Wangerin Organ at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago. This is appropriate since the previous organ of St. John's was also a Wangerin. The diagonal tracery on the upper transept case is also from the Pugin collegion of ornamental drawings, while the center pentagonal is a copy of a 13th century frieze found in Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral. . . .the casework was designed by Roger Daggy. The rosettes, friezes, tracery and finials were all carved by George Weissler of Evanston, Illinois." --Walter Bradford -Andrew Schaeffer

Stoplist

From OHS 2012 convention website Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Wilmette, Illinois
St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church

Bradford Organ Co.   Opus 6   1990
2 manuals, 27 stops, 32 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN
     16' Bourdon             58
      8' Open Diapason       58
      8' Melodia             58
      8' Dulciana            58
      4' Octave              58
      4' Gedeckt             58
  2-2/3' Twelfth             58
      2' Super Octave        58
         Mixture IV         232
      8' Trumpet             58
      8' Clarinet            58

         SWELL ORGAN
      8' Open Diapason       58
      8' Stopt Diapason      58
      8' Keraulophone        58
      8' Voix Celeste        58
      4' Principal           58
      4' Flute d'Amour       58
      2' Fifteenth           58
         Cornet III         174
     16' Bassoon (prepared)
      8' Cornopean           58
      8' Oboe                58
         Tremolo

         PEDAL ORGAN
     16' Dbl. Open Diapason  30
     16' Bourdon             30
      8' Violoncello         30
      4' Super Octave        30
     16' Trombone            30
      8' Tromba              30


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2018-07-27]

Documents

(1990-06-17) Dedicatory recital brochure, which includes a history of both the Bradford organ and its Wangerin predecessor along with a detailed stoplist -Ronald Damholt
(1991-01-06) Brochure from Thomas Murray's recital on the Bradford organ in January of 1991 -Ronald Damholt
(1990-11-18) Third dedicatory recital on the Bradford organ with Dr. William Aylesworth, organist and Kurt Hansen, tenor -Ronald Damholt