Better Pipe Organ Database

Noack Opus 96 (1983)

Western Michigan University: Organ Studio
Kalamazoo, MI

Images

2012-03-03 - Organ Case (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2012-03-03 - Keydesk (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2012-03-03 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2011-12-10 - Organ Studio and Organ Case (Photograph by Ellen Tipton/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
14 stops
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
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

2012-03-05 - The contract for the organ was signed in November 1980, and the organ was installed in December of 1983. The instrument was designed and voiced by Fritz Noack, and the pipe shades were carved by James Lohman of Boston. The casework is of solid white oak. Two changes have been made to the organ since its original installation: a foot rest was added where a Swell pedal normally would be located, and the larger facade pipes were reinforced because they were collapsing. Both of these alterations were made by the Lauck Pipe Organ Company. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from factory specifications Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Kalamazoo, Michigan
WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
Studio Organ

Noack Organ Company    Opus 96    1983    17 ranks
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GREAT:                      CHOIR:                   PEDAL:                   COUPLERS:
Manual I                    Manual II                 16' Bourdon 30           Choir to Great
    8' Chimney Flute 56       8' Stopt Flute 56        8' Principal 30 *       Great to Pedal
    4' Principal 56 *         4' Recorder 56           4' Octave 30            Choir to Pedal
2 2/3' Nazard 56              2' Principal 56         16' Bassoon 30
    2' Doublette 56           8' Cremona 56           
1 1/3' Tierce 56  
   IV  Mixture 224                                     * forms part of the facade

[Received online from Chad Boorsma • March 6, 2012]