Salem's Lutheran & Reformed Church [now UCC]
11 Church Road
orig. Rough and Ready
Klingerstown, PA
Images
2024-07-28 - Keyboards and pistons (Jack Umholtz/Jack Umholtz)
2024-07-28 - Nave (Jack Umholtz/Jack Umholtz)
2024-07-28 - Pedalboard & Expression shoes (Jack Umholtz/Jack Umholtz)
2024-08-06 - Open Diapason CC showing scale and original opus number (Jack Umholz/Paul R. Marchesano)
2024-07-28 - Console (Jack Umholtz/Jack Umholtz)
2024-08-06 - Church exterior (Jack Umholtz/Jack Umholtz)
2024-08-06 - Church exterior (Jack Umholtz/Jack Umholtz)
2024-08-06 - Church exterior (view from mountain) (Jack Umholtz/Jack Umholtz)
Consoles
Chancel
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
- 2 manuals
- 4 stops
- 19 registers
- 3 divisions
- Key action Type: Electrical
- Stop action Type: Electrical
- Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
- Manual compass: 61 notes
- Pedal compass: 32 notes
- Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Has crescendo
- Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
- Peterson
- Has combination thumb pistons
Notes
2024-08-03 - All the pipework is behind the grille on the left side of the nave, with the console being below the grille on the right side of the nave. I believe Moller did the two grills for visual symmetry in the nave. The door under the right grill goes to a stairway to the ground floor of the building.
This instrument is a rebuild/rework of a Moller instrument. It has had a Peterson relay installed.
The main chest is a 4 rank chest with offsets for the bottom of the Flute, Viole, Diapason and (now) Trompete, and I recall speaking with the organist from the 1970's who told me that a Trumpet (Trompette?) was installed (by Moller?).
Based on the 4 rank main chest and since remebering being told that the Trumpet/Trompette was added, I suspect that the original pipework comprised of the Diapason, Viole, Flute and possibly a Dulciana. -Jack Umholtz
2024-08-06 - Per dates on the wall/units in the blower room, the blower was replace, static reservoir reworked, and rectifier added by Taylor Miller in 1998.
Per date on the Swell shade motor, a Peterson Swell shade motor was added by Taylor Miller in 2012.
At some point, the main chest was converted by Taylor Miller to Direct Electric and the Trumpet was added by that company. Nothing dated for that conversion/addition. -Jack Umholtz
Stoplist
This organ is a 4 rank, unified and duplexed instrument. The 8' Open Diapason does have the bass Octave and does not start at tenor C with the bass octave being comprised of the 8' Flute and Viole.
I could access the chamber below the main chest, but could not fit between the wall and chest bearers to photograph the pipework. Source: Taken from console.
Pedal Blank Tab, Bourdon 16, Flute 8, Viole 8
Great Open Diapason 8 (Scale 44), Leiblich Gedeckt 8 (SW, GT, PED 16' to 2'), Octave 4, Viole Dolce 8, Flute 4, Fugara 4, Piccolo 2, Trompette 8 (Available only on Great at 8')
Swell Bourdon 16, Gedeckt 8, Viole Dolce 8, Fugara 4, Flute 4, Flute Twelfth 2 2/3, Piccolo 2, Oboe (synth) 8 (Comprised of 8' Viole Dolce, 4' Flute, and 2 2/3' Flute Twelfth)
Swell to Great 8, Great to Pedal 8, Swell to Pedal 8
This organ is a 4 rank, unified and duplexed instrument. The 8' Open Diapason does have the bass Octave and does not start at tenor C with the bass octave being comprised of the 8' Flute and Viole.
I could access the chamber below the main chest, but could not fit between the wall and chest bearers to photograph the pipework. Source: Taken from console.
Great Open Diapason 8, Leiblich Gedeckt 8, Octave 4, Flute 4, Fugara 4, Viole Dolce 8, Piccolo 2, Trompette 8 (Only Available on Great at 8'.)
Swell Gedeckt 8, Viole Dolce 8, Flute 4, Bourdon 16, Fugara 4, Piccolo 2, Flute Twelfth 2 2/3, Oboe (synth) 8 (Comprised of 8' Viole Dolce, 4' Flute, and 2 2/3' Flute Twelfth)
Pedal Bourdon 16, Blank Tab, Flute 8, Viole 8
Swell to Great, Great to Pedal, Swell to Pedal
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