1980-01-20 - Organ (Photograph from Knuth website, used with permission/Database Manager)
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1998 -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - EP pedal action. -Database Manager
2009-01-17 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager
Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Residence of Don and Jill Knuth
Abbott and Sieker, Opus 67.''
It has 812 pipes, separated into three divisions:
Manual I (exposed, highest over the console; mechanical key action controlling 380 pipes)
Holzgedackt 8 (49 wooden pipes including 4 in the facade, plus 7 small metal pipes
Gemshorn 8 (44 metal pipes (low 12 notes common with Holzgedackt)
Prästant 4 (56 metal pipes including copper façade)
Blockflöte 2 (56 metal pipes)
Quinte 1 1/3 (56 metal pipes)
Mixtur III (112 metal pipes in addition to Quinte;
Mixture pitches:
CC--BB 1 1/3 + 1 + 2/3
C--B 2 + 1 1/3 + 1
c'--g''' 2 2/3 + 2 + 1 1/3
Coupler from Manual II to Manual I
Manual II (enclosed, just above the console; mechanical key action controlling 312 pipes)
Spitzflöte 8 (44 metal pipes (low 12 notes common with Quintadena))
Quintadena 8 (49 wooden pipes plus 7 small metal pipes)
Rohrflöte 4 (56 metal pipes)
Prinzipal 2 (56 metal pipes)
Nasat 2 2/3 (56 metal pipes)
Terz 1 3/5 (44 metal pipes from tenor C to g''')
Pedal (exposed, to right of console; electropneumatic action controlling 120 pipes)
Subbass 16 (32 wooden pipes)
Kupferprinzipal 8 (32 metal pipes including copper façade)
Flöte 8 (12 wooden pipes extending the Subbass)
Oktave 4 (12 metal pipes extending the Kupferprinzipal)
Contrafagott 16 (32 reeds with half-length metal resonator pipes)
Coupler from Manual I to Pedal
Coupler from Manual II to Pedal
Console:
Wooden keys (grenadill)
Walnut music rack
6 general combination pistons
18 divisional combination pistons, 6 per division
Setterboard under music rack to adjust combinations
Swell and Crescendo pedals
The manual divisions use 2.5'' of wind pressure, and the pedal division uses 3.5'
Meidinger blower comes from Switzerland. Some of the pipes were made by Gebrüder
Käs in Germany, and the pedal reeds are from Trivo Inc. in Hagerstown,
Maryland, but most of the pipework is by Abbott and Sieker, who did all the
voicing.
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