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Holtkamp Organ Co. Opus 1984 (1984)

Mercer University: Newton Hall
1488 Coleman Avenue
Macon, GA

Images

2019-03-14 - Chapel interior (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

2019-03-14 - Chapel interior angle (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

2019-03-14 - Console and organ case (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

2019-03-14 - Console (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

2019-03-14 - Left Stopjamb (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

2019-03-14 - Right Stopjamb (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

1998-06-29 - Unknown (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

Unknown - Photo from <i>The American Organist</i> October 1984 cover feature (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Non-Traditional Style, As Consoles by Holtkamp, Schlicker, et al
Console position: Keydesk Attached
3 manuals
39 stops
40 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1999 -Database Manager

2015-01-08 - Updated through online information from Jim Thompson. -- Holtkamp site has the advertisement data sheet able to be viewed. Formerly Tatnall Square Baptist Church, rededicated as Newton Hall (Chapel) in 1978 and is located on the Mercer University campus as part of the Townsend School of Music. The Plunkett-Sewell family commissioned the Holtkamp pipe organ. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist copied from <i>The American Organist</i> October 1984 Date not recorded

        Macon, Georgia
        Mercer University
        Newton Chapel

        Holtkamp   Job #1984   1984   3/51
        ____________________________________

        GREAT                   SWELL

    16' Principal Bass 12 *    16' Pommer       61
     8' Principal      61       8' Bourdon      61
     8' Rohrgedeckt    61       8' Gambe        61
     8' Gemshorn       61       8' Voix Celeste 56
     4' Octave         61       4' Principal    61
     4' Spitzflöte     61       4' Holzflöte    61
     2' Super Octave   61       2' Doublette    61
    II  Sesquialtera  122   1 1/3' Larigot      61
    IV  Mixture       244      IV  Fourniture  244
   III  Scharff       183      16' Dulzian      61
     8' Trumpet        61       8' Trompete     61
                                8' Oboe         61  
        PEDAL                   4' Clairon      61
                                   Tremolo
    16' Principal      32          
    16' Subbass        32         SOLO
10 2/3' Gross Quinte   32     
     8' Octave         32       8' Copula       61
     8' Open Flute     32       4' Rohrflöte    61 
     4' Choralbass     32       2' Blockflöte   61 
   III  Mixture        96       1' Glockenlein  61
    16' Posaune        32      II  Cornet    tc 98
     8' Trumpet        32      16' Rankett      61
                                8' Cromorne     61
     *  1-12 Rohrgedeckt           Tremolo

 [Received from Jeff Scofield March 4, 2019]

Websites

Organ in Newton Chapel - Mercer University - Photographs (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)

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