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Geo. Kilgen & Son, Inc. (1910)

Images

Date unknown - Sanctuary interior with organ at front, left (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2022-10-03 - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2015-12-03 - Organ case at front, left (Church Facebook page/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

• Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
• Console position: Keydesk Attached
• 2 manuals
• 3 divisions
• Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
• Stop action Type: Mechanical
• Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
• Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Not Meeting AGO Standards)

Notes

2023-09-30 - This entry represents the installation of a new organ. -Jim Stettner

2023-09-30 - Updated through online information from John Igoe. -- The Diapason, July 2015, page 12: Bedient carries out restorative repairs, naming location as Daykin, NE. -Jim Stettner

2024-04-07 - "New Church Under Way, *Fairbury (NE) Gazette*, Friday, June 4, 1909, 1, Newspapers.com, accessed April 7, 2024, https://www.newspapers.com/image/672556846: "The foundation of the new German Evangelical Lutheran Emanuel church to be erected five miles east of Daykin is now constructed, and the contracts for the building have been let and work will be pushed along as rapidly as possible. . . . A new $2200 pipe organ has been ordered from Kilgen & Son, of St. Louis, for which the finance committee will pay $1600. . . ." "Organ Builders" (column), *The Diapason*, July 2015, 12: "Bedient has also carried out restorative repairs to the 1910 Geo. Kilgen & Son mechanical-action organ in Immanuel Lutheran Church, Daykin, Nebraska." -Charles Eberline

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