Better Pipe Organ Database

Bruce Shull (Organbuilder) Opus 4 (1981)

First United Presbyterian Church: Sanctuary
225 Williams Street
Huron, OH

Images

1981-03-17 - View of entire organ (Digital photograph by Bruce Shull/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
2 manuals
16 stops
16 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: No Enclosed Divisions
Combination action: None
Has hitchdown couplers

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1996. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Built 1979-81. Mechanical stop action. Has 2 large wedge bellows which can be foot pumped by assistant or filled with electric blower. -Database Manager

2010-02-28 - Updated through on-ine information from ERIC J. GASTIER. -- Kirnberger III temperament. Metal pipes of hammered lead alloy. 2' Principal & 8' Trompete - 2% tin. 8' Regal - 30% tin. All others - 17% tin. Natural manual keys of boxwood, sharps and stop knobs of ebony. Case of hand-planed white oak, fumed and oiled. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from DEDICATION PROGRAM Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Great
16     Bourdon
8'     Praestant
8'     Hohlflote
4'     Octave
3'     Quinte
2'     Octave
1-3/5' Tierce
III-V  Mixture

Brustwerk
8'     Gedeckt
4'     Rohrflote
2'     Principal
III    Scharf
8'     Regal

Pedal
16'    Subbass
8'     Principal
8'     Trommpete

Couplers
Brustwerk to Great (shove)
Great to Pedal

Inaugural Recital played by William Porter of Oberlin Conservatory on 
May 3, 1981.  
Prof. Porter also served as consultant.

[Received on line from ERIC J. GASTIER February 28, 2010.]