Better Pipe Organ Database

Wm. Johnson & Son Opus 779 (1892)

Cass Avenue Methodist Church: Sanctuary
3910 Cass Avenue
Detroit, MI

OHS convention: 1995

Images

Unknown - Sanctuary Interior, Chancel, and Pipe Facade (Photograph (1892) from the Burton Historical Collection; image courtesy of Jim Lewis/Database Manager)

2024-06-23 - Console (Wesley Paulson/Wesley Paulson)

2024-06-23 - Facade (Wesley Paulson/Wesley Paulson)

2024-06-23 - Builder's nameplate (Wesley Paulson/Wesley Paulson)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
3 manuals
31 stops
4 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical With Pneumatic Assists
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1997 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Historic Organs Recital 19 May 1989. Mich. chapter, OHS raising money for restoration in 1997. Also known as Cass Community United Methodist. Restorative repairs in 1977 by James Hammann. -Database Manager

2009-10-19 - Updated through online information from Ray Ahrens. -- There as of 10/2009. Needs, at the very least, a thorough cleaning. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: David Schnute from T 14:3:4, revised Date not recorded

Detroit, Michigan
Cass Methodist Church

Johnson & Son, Op. 779, 1892


GREAT (58 notes, Man. II)
16'   Double Open Diapason    (58w&m)
8'    Open Diapason           (58m)
8'    Viola da Gamba          (58m)
8'    Doppel Flöte            (58w)
4'    Octave                  (58m)
4'    Flute Traverso          (58m)
2-2/3 Twelfth                 (58m)
2'    Super Octave            (58m)
III   Mixture (12-15-19)     (174m)
8'    Trumpet                 (58m)

SWELL(58 notes, enclosed, Man. III)
16'   Lieblich Gedackt Bass   (12w)
16'   Lieblich Gedackt    (tc; 46w)
8'    Open Diapason         (56w&m)
8'    Stopped Diapason        (56w)
8'    Salicional              (58m)
8'    Dolcissimo              (58m)
4'    Violin                  (58m)
4'    Flute Harmonique        (58m)
2'    Flautino                (58m)
III   Cornet Dolce           (174m)
8'    Cornopean               (58m)
8'    Oboe & Bassoon          (58m)
      Tremolo

SOLO (58 notes, unenclosed, Man. I)
8'    Geigen Principal        (58m)
8'    Melodia                 (58w)
8'    Dulciana                (58m)
4'    Fugara                  (___)  [not listed in OH 1995:99.]
4'    Flute d'Amour           (58w)
8'    Clarinet            (tc, 46m)

PEDAL (30 notes)
16'   Double Open Diap.       (30w)
16'   Bourdon                 (30w)
8'    Violincello             (30m)

COUPLERS (Drawknob)
Swell to Pedale
Great to Pedale
Solo to Pedale

Swell to Great
Solo to Great

Swell to Solo


PEDAL MOVEMENTS
6 labelled combination pedals: Piano Great; Mezzo Great; Forte Great; Piano Swell; 
Mezzo Swell; Forte Swell
Gt. to Ped. Reversibble
Gt. Organ Separation
Balanced Swell pedal

Apparently the Solo 8' Melodia and Gt. 4' Flauto Traverso were at one point interchanged (with the Melodia appearing at 4' on the Gt. and the Flauto
Traverso appearing at 4' on the Solo. /ds/