West Side Moravian Church / Voice of Faith
521 Fourth Street
Green Bay, WI
Images
2012-08-05 - Organ Case (Photograph by Rodney Weed/Database Manager)
2012-08-05 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by Rodney Weed/Database Manager)
2012-08-05 - Keydesk (cover closed) (Photograph by Rodney Weed/Database Manager)
2012-08-05 - Blower (Photograph by Rodney Weed/Database Manager)
2012-08-05 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Rodney Weed/Database Manager)
2012-08-05 - Church Entrance (Photograph by Rodney Weed/Database Manager)
2012-07-29 - Organ Case and Pipe Façade (Photograph by Rodney Weed/Database Manager)
2012-07-29 - Keydesk and Pedalboard (Photograph by Rodney Weed/Database Manager)
2012-07-29 - Keydesk and Pedalboard (Photograph by Rodney Weed/Database Manager)
2012-07-29 - Left Drawknobs (Photograph by Rodney Weed/Database Manager)
2012-07-29 - Right Drawknobs (Photograph by Rodney Weed/Database Manager)
2012-07-29 - Coupler Drawknobs (Photograph by Rodney Weed/Database Manager)
2012-07-29 - Dedication Plaque (Photograph by Rodney Weed/Database Manager)
2012-07-29 - Original Pump Handle Inside Organ Case (Photograph by Rodney Weed/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
- 10 stops
- 3 divisions
- Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
- Stop action Type: Mechanical
- Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
- Manual compass: 61 notes
- Pedal compass: 30 notes
- Pedal Type: Concave Straight
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
- Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Notes
2004-10-30 - Building was originally the West Side Moravian Church. Steeple struck by lightning in Sep 2004. Damage to organ unknown. -Database Manager
2012-08-07 - Updated through online information from Rodney J. Weed. -- Based on my visit to the church on August 5, 2012 Everything on this organ is in current working condition. I checked each rank and all pipes sounded. While it was not in perfect tune, it was not horribly out of tune either. When both couplers were used between the Swell and Great there was some noticeable heaviness of action in the lowest two octaves which required a firm playing pressure or the resistance could cause notes not sounding. Considering the organ is rarely used by the church in regular services it is amazing everything works as well as it does, or maybe that is why everything is working. -Database Manager
2012-08-15 - Updated through online information from Rodney J. Weed. -- On August 12, 2012 I made another close inspection inside the organ case and was able to find the opus number. It is 1201. I found this number written in pencil by the same hand in four different places on the inside of the organ case. On the inside of the door to the inside of the case at the top I found a name (not readable) and this number. I think as was the custom with the Hinners company the company representative that came to help the church assemble the organ would write their name and the opus number inside the case. I have pictures of all the occurrences of the number 1201. Pictures are not great but good enough to read the 1201. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Stoplist taken from the console July 29, 2012 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Green Bay, Wisconsin
Voice of Faith Chapel (Originally built as West Side Moravian Church
Hinners Organ Company of Pekin, Illinois Opus Unknown 1898
GREAT SWELL PEDAL
8 Melodia 61 pipes 8 Violin Diapason 61 pipes 16 Bourdon 30 pipes
8 Open Diapason 61 pipes 8 Stopped Diapason 61 pipes
4 Principal 61 pipes 8 Salicional 61 pipes
8 Dulciana 61 pipes 4 Flute Traverso 61 pipes
2 Flageolet 61 pipes
Bellows Signal
COUPLERS ABOVE SWELL MANUAL
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal
Swell to Great
Swell Octave to Great
Swell Tremulant
[Received from Rodney J. Weed 2012-08-01.]
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