Better Pipe Organ Database

Wm. Schuelke Organ Co. (1906)

Laurium United Methodist
318 Kearsarge St.
Laurium, MI

Note: Not playable. (in this location)

Images

2009-12-16 - Pipe Facade (Photograph by Shawn P. Keith/Database Manager)

2009-12-16 - Console (Photograph by Shawn P. Keith/Database Manager)

2009-12-16 - Left Drawknobs (Photograph by Shawn P. Keith/Database Manager)

2009-12-16 - Right Drawknobs (Photograph by Shawn P. Keith/Database Manager)

2009-12-16 - Great Pipework (Open Diapason) (Photograph by Shawn P. Keith/Database Manager)

2009-12-16 - Pedal Chest (inside the right side of the case) (Photograph by Shawn P. Keith/Database Manager)

Date unknown - Sanctuary interior with organ in front (Unknown/Jim Stettner)

ca. 1910's - Church exterior (Vintage postcard/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
2 manuals
19 stops
18 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - The builder did not use opus numbers to identify his work, but the catalog number S-178 was assigned to this instrument by Elizabeth Towne Schmitt and may be used for reference. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1976. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Unplayable in 1976. Included a stop crescendo. -Database Manager

2007-11-05 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

2015-01-08 - Updated through online information from Shawn P. Keith. -- The organ retains its original tubular-pneumatic operating systems, which had failed sufficiently by about 1985 that the organ was silenced. The congregation has shrunk to the point that the survival of the church is questioned. The organ remains in-situ but unplayable. -Database Manager

2019-05-24 - Updated by Shawn P. Keith, listing conversations with this person as the source of the information: John Novosad. Church closed and building sold into private hands in 2018. Organ remains in-situ and unaltered. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from the console in 2009 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Laurium, Michigan
Laurium United Methodist Church

Wm. Scheulke, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Vintage 1906

GREAT - enclosed with Swell except 8' Diapason, partially en facade
8’ Open Diapason - 1-22 en façade
8’ Double Flute
8’ Melodia
8’ Gamba
8’ Dulciana
4’ Principal
4’ Flute d'Amour
   Swell to Great Sub Octave
   Swell to Great
   Swell to Great Super Octave

SWELL - enclosed and expressive
16’ Bourdon Bass - 12 pipes
16’ Bourdon Treble - 49 pipes from TC
8’ Open Diapason
8’ Stopped Diapason
8’ Salicional
8’ Aeoline
4’ Violin
4’ Flute Harmonique
2’ Piccolo
8’ Oboe and Bassoon

PEDAL - unenclosed
16’ Bourdon
8’ Cello
   Great to Pedal
   Swell to Pedal



 [Received from Shawn P. Keith 2015-01-02.]