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Farrand & Votey Organ Co. Opus 714 (1894)

St. Martin of Tours Roman Catholic Church
639 S. Shelby Street
Louisville, KY

OHS convention: 1993


Images


Unknown - Sanctuary interior (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)

Unknown - Organ case (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)

Unknown - Console (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)

Unknown - Sanctuary interior to rear and organ case (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)

Unknown - Church exterior (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)

Unknown - Church Exterior (Vintage Postcard, courtesy of T. Bradford Willis, DDS (1909)/Database Manager)

2015-11-15 - Organ Case (Photograph by David C. Schroth Jr./Database Manager)

2013-12-25 - Nave, Balcony, and Organ Case (Photogrpah by Rev. R. Paul Beach/Database Manager)

2024-06-28 - Console (C. Kenneth Stein, photographybystein.com/C. Kenneth Stein)

2024-06-26 - Building west entrance and steeple (C. Kenneth Stein, photographybystein.com/C. Kenneth Stein)

2024-06-26 - West (liturgical) end of church exterior (C. Kenneth Stein, photographybystein.com/C. Kenneth Stein)

2024-06-26 - Donations receptacle for organ restoration (C. Kenneth Stein, photographybystein.com/C. Kenneth Stein)

2024-06-26 - Pipework - case (C. Kenneth Stein, photographybystein.com/C. Kenneth Stein)

2024-06-26 - Console detail - left stop jamb (C. Kenneth Stein, photographybystein.com/C. Kenneth Stein)

2024-06-26 - Console detail - right stop jamb (C. Kenneth Stein, photographybystein.com/C. Kenneth Stein)

2024-06-26 - Fisheye view of console (w/self-portrait of photographer) (C. Kenneth Stein, photographybystein.com/C. Kenneth Stein)

Consoles

Main


Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1994 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - New console added by Joseph Ruf in 1949. Renovated with new console and wind system 1992 by Miller Pipe Organ Co. -Database Manager


Stoplist

Specification from church website with annotations from Christoph Wahl Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Louisville, Kentucky
St. Martin of Tours Roman Catholic Church

Farrand & Votey Organ Co.   Opus 714   1894   3 manuals, 32 stops, 37 ranks
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From console by Miller Pipe Organ Company – 1992

         GREAT ORGAN                           SWELL ORGAN
     16' Open Diapason       61            16' Bourdon             61 a
      8' Open Diapason       61             8' Open Diapason       61
      8' Doppel Flöte        61             8' Stopped Diapason    61
      8' Viola da Gamba      61             8' Salicional          61
      4' Octave              61             4' Flute Harmonique    61
  2 2/3' Quint               61             4' Gemshorn            61
      2' Super Octave        61                Dolce Cornet III   183
         Mixture III-IV     220             8' Cornopean           61
      8' Trumpet             61             8' Oboe                61
                                            8' Vox Humana          61
         CHOIR ORGAN                           Tremolo
      8' Geigen Principal    61
      8' Concert Flute       61                PEDAL ORGAN
      8' Dolce               61            16' Open Diapason       30
      8' Quintadena          61            16' Bourdon             30
      4' Rohr Flöte          61            16' Dulciana            30 b
      4' Fugara              61             8' Violoncello         30
      2' Piccolo Harmonique  61            16' Trombone            30
      8' Clarinet            61            
         Tremolo

      a  originally two knobs: Bourdon Bass and Bourdon Treble
      b  originally Violone


         COUPLERS                              COMBINATION ACTION
         Great to Pedal      8  4  tabs        General    10  (thumb & toe)
         Swell to Pedal      8  4  tabs        Swell       5  (thumb)
         Choir to Pedal      8  4  tabs        Great       5  (thumb)
         Swell to Great  16  8  4  tabs        Choir       5  (thumb)
         Choir to Great  16  8  4  tabs        Pedal       5  (toe)
         Swell to Choir  16  8  4  tabs        Set            (thumb)
         Great to Great  16 UO  4  knobs       General Cancel (thumb)
         Swell to Swell  16 UO  4  knobs       Sforzando      (thumb & toe)
         Choir to Choir  16 UO  4  knobs       Great to Pedal (toe)

         EXPRESSION
         Balanced Pedal - Swell
         Balanced Pedal - Choir
         Crescendo Pedal


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2016-07-15]


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