OHS convention: 2009
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2004-10-30 - The original builder was W. W. Kimball (1924). -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1996. -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Rebuild of 1924 W. W. Kimball. Adjustable combination action (still mechanical). Solo division floats to Great, Choir, and Pedal. Echo division silenced. Echo Trumpet moved to Great. [36rk?] -Database Manager
Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Congregation Tifereth Israel, The Temple," Cleveland, Ohio. 1924 Kimball (Information Sebastian Mattheus Gluck 1998) The original organ, designed by Carlton H. Bullis along Hope-Jones lines, was controlled from a large four-manual horseshoe keydesk, and featured extensive use of Second-Touch stops. Some have said it is reminiscent in design of the Wiltern instrument. Tragically, this console was replaced by what can only be described as a shipping crate with notably inexpensive components, reduced to three manuals, with NO Second Touch. It takes on the appearance of a cigar box with false teeth. The organ is currently in poor condition, with some pipework irreparably altered, and some missing. The organ features some unusual attempts to fit it into its chambers, including a TRIANGULAR windchest, with pipes planted in the same arrangement as billiard balls in a frame, for the bass of the Swell 16' Oboe Horn. TONAL RESOURCES: 16' Diaphone, 85 pipes, wood and metal, leathered lips (SO) 8' Principal Diapason, 73 pipes, metal (GT/CH) 16' Diapason, 97 pipes, metal (GT/CH) 16' Waldhorn, 97 pipes, metal (really a large, spotted metal Spitzflote) (GT/CH) 8' Gross Flute, 73 pipes, wood (GT/CH) 8' Claribel Flute, 85 pipes, wood (GT/CH) 8' Flute Celeste, 73 pipes, wood (GT/CH) 8' Dulciana, 73 pipes, metal (GT/CH) 8' Orchestral Flute, 73 pipes, metal (GT/CH) 4' Harmonic Flute, 73 pipes, metal (GT/CH) 8' Clarinet, 73 pipes, metal (GT/CH) 8' Diapason Phonon, 73 pipes, wood and metal, leathered lips (SW) 16' Clarabella, 85 pipes, wood (SW) 16' Gedeckt, 97 pipes, wood (SW) 8' Viola da Gamba, 73 pipes, metal (SW) 8' Voix Celeste, 73 pipes, metal (SW) 16' Salicional, 97 pipes, metal (SW) III rank Dolce Mixture, 183 pipes, metal (12-15-17) (SW) 8' Cornopean, 73 pipes, metal (SW) 16' Oboe Horn, 85 pipes, metal (SW) 8' Vox Humana, 61 pipes, metal (SW) 16' Tibia Clausa, 97 pipes, wood, leathered lips (SO) 8' II rank Violes Celestes, 170 pipes, proof tin (SO) 8' Viole d'Orchestre, 85 pipes, proof tin (SO) 16' Tuba Sonora, 97 pipes, metal (SO) 8' Harmonic Trumpet, 73 pipes, metal (On Solo, but placed in the Echo Chamber) 8' French Horn, 73 pipes, metal (SO) 16' Bassoon, 85 pipes, metal (SO) 8' Orchestral Oboe, 73 pipes, metal (SO) 8' Celesta (Deagan), 61 bars (GT/CH) 16' Flute, 97 pipes, wood (EC) 8' Viole AEtheria, 73 pipes, tapered, proof tin (EC) 8' Vox Angelica, 73 pipes, tapered, proof tin (EC) 8' Vox Humana, 61 pipes, metal (EC) The organ chambers are above the Bima on one side of a heptagonal, domed room, beautifully adorned and carved, yet made of AcoustoLith Stone (also known as SonicDeath stone). The Echo is in a chamber in the rear gallery between the towers. Yet with eleven 16' stops (the Diaphone and Tuba are seismic!), and a Resultant 32' Tibia, the room shakes mightily. Sebastian Matthaus Gluck Tonal Director Gluck Orgelbau, Incorporated Pipe Organ Conservators, Architects, and Builders "The old console at the Temple in Cleveland was indeed fun to play .. BUT, it had also been extensively altered to accommodate a much beloved (evidently!) one-legged organist (!) ... a hole had been cut in the bass end of the kick-board, and an additional set of swell shoes had been installed at an angle (if memory serves), along with as many of the toe studs as could be duplicated."
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