Better Pipe Organ Database

Wayne T. Warren (1999)

Zion Lutheran Church: Sanctuary
582 Lamoreaux Drive
Comstock Park, MI

Images

2011-07-08 - Keydesk (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2011-07-08 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2011-07-08 - Drawknobs (left) (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2011-07-08 - Drawknobs (right) (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2011-07-08 - Swell Pedal (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2011-07-08 - Organ Case (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2011-07-08 - Nave and Organ Case (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2011-07-08 - Sanctuary Interior and Chancel (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2011-07-08 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/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
11 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: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: None

Notes

2004-10-30 - Organ's original home is unknown. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1998 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Moved to Concordia Lutheran Church, Detroit, MI (c. 1906?). The building was later owned by Hungarian Baptist, then True Light Church of God in Christ. -Database Manager

2011-07-08 - The organ was purchased from the church in Detroit in May of 1995 for $8,000. J. D. Lyon, Dana Hull, and Justin Berg were also involved in the relocation and restoration of the instrument. The facade pipes were restored by a member of the congregation. The organ was dedicated on October 9, 1999. A dedication concert was held January 23, 2000, with Craig Cramer as guest organist. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Comstock Park, Michigan
ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH

Carl Barckhoff Organ Company   ca. 1885

Installation by William T. Warren, J. D. Lyon, Dana Hull 
and members of the congregation   1999
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GREAT:                            SWELL:
  16' Bourdon (divided) 58           8' Geigen Principal 58
   8' Open Diapason 58               8' Melodia 58
   8' Stopped Diapason 58            4' Flauto Traverso 58
   8' Gamba 58
   4' Octave 58                   PEDAL:
 III Mixture 174                    16' Subbass 27
                                     8' Violon 27

THREE LEVERS ABOVE PEDALBOARD:
(not labeled)
   Soft Great (Stopped Diapason + Gamba)
   Full Great
   Great Cancel

OTHER DRAWKNOBS:
   Bellows Signal
   Wind Ventil

[Updated by Chad Boorsma • July 8, 2011]