Better Pipe Organ Database

Hinners Organ Co. (1918)

First Presbyterian Church: Sanctuary
Decatur Co.
Leon, IA

Images

2015-12-04 - Keydesk Remains (for sale at West End Salvage, Des Moines, Iowa) (Photograph by Benjamin K. Hoskins/Database Manager)

2015-12-04 - Pipework (for sale at West End Salvage, Des Moines, Iowa) (Photograph by Benjamin K. Hoskins/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
9 stops
14 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Has coupler toe pistons
Has hitchdown couplers

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1984 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Historic Organ Recital 10 Feb 1984. -Database Manager

2014-06-30 - Updated through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -- The church has conducted its last services in the 1918 building June 1, 2014, and organ is reported to be for sale. According to the 10 February 1984 organ program, this organ was "purchased for the congregation with matching funds provided by the Carnegie Foundation and the Young Ladies' Aid of the church. The original cost was $2000. It was dedicated June 2, 1918, just eight months after the dedication of the current church building, which replaced the original Presbyterian church in Leon, built in 1872." . . . "This instrument . . . has served virtually uninterrupted and unaltered since its installation." A photograph from the 1982 OHS program reveals there are probably five fixed combination pedals and/or coupler reversibles. -Database Manager

2014-11-12 - Updated through online information from Ronald Gibson. -- Condition in late October, 2014, is probably reasonably good. Efforts towards a sale stalled. Not sure of the reasons rescue rejected, but storage might be an issue. Appears to have been adequately maintained. -Database Manager

2015-12-13 - Updated through online information from John Panning. <br>Organ has been removed and destroyed. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist (Source: 1984 OHS recital program) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

First Presbyterian Church
Leon, Iowa
Hinners Organ Company, c. 1918
OHS ID: 8755
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   GREAT            SWELL                PEDAL      COUPLERS
 8 Open Diapason  8 Violin Diapason   16 Bourdon    Swell to Great
 8 Melodia        8 Stopped Diapason                Swell to Great Super Octave
 8 Dulciana [1]   8 Salicional [2]                  Swell to Pedal
 4 Principal      4 Flute Harmonic       Tremolo    Great to Pedal
                                         
   NOTES                                 
1. Dulciana shares bottom octave with Melodia.
2. Salicional shares bottom octave with Stopped Diapason. 
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[Received online from T. Daniel Hancock, 2014-06-27]