Better Pipe Organ Database

Johnson & Son (variant of Wm. Johnson & Son). Opus 795 (1893)

Central Seventh-day Adventist Church: Sanctuary; front
100 Sheldon Avenue S.E.
Grand Rapids, MI

Images

2019-07-07 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-04-07 - Pipe Facade (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-04-07 - Sanctuary, Chancel, and Pipe Facade (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-04-07 - Chancel and Pipe Facade (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-04-07 - Sanctuary Interior and Pipe Facade (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-04-07 - Nave (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-04-07 - Stained Glass in Ceiling (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-04-07 - Keydesk (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-04-07 - Nameplate (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2009-11-22 - Building Exterior (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
17 stops
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Combination action: None

Notes

2004-10-30 - Formerly All Souls Universalist. -Database Manager

2009-07-02 - Updated through online information from Chad Boorsma. -Database Manager

2010-04-08 - Updated through online information from Chad Boorsma. -- Chimes, which are playable from a small keyboard below the Great manual, were added to the organ at an unknown date. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist taken from the console April 7, 2010

Grand Rapids, Michigan
CENTRAL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH

Johnson & Son,  Opus 795  1893  -  17 ranks
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       GREAT
8'     Open Diapason             58
8'     Melodia                   58
8'     Dulciana                  58
4'     Octave                    58
4'     Flute d'Amour             58
2 2/3' Twelfth                   58
2'     Fifteenth                 58
8'     Trumpet                   58 


       SWELL (Expressive)
8'     Open Diapason             58
8'     Stopped Diapason          58
8'     Viola                     58
4'     Flute Harmonique          58
4'     Fugara                    58
2'     Flautino                  58
8'     Oboe - Bassoon            58
       Tremolo
 

       PEDAL
16'    Subbass                   27
16'    Bourdon                   27


       COUPLERS (Drawknob)
Swell to Pedal
Great to Pedal

Swell to Great


       FOOT TRUNDLES
Forte Great:   8,8,8,4,4,2-2/3,2,8.
   
Great to Pedal           Reversible

Piano Great     8' Mel., & 8' Dulc.
     

       PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell Expression             (bal.)
                                                       

       ACCESSORIES
Blower Signal
Pedal Check


[Received on line from Chad Boorsma April 08, 2010.]
[Updated by James R. Stettner on November 10, 2023.]

Websites

GRAGO - Organs of Grand Rapids (Central SDA page] - Photograph, stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)