? - Console (Photograph by Amy Heiden, submitted by Francis Sele/Francis Sele)
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1996. -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Identified through information from Ray Ahrens. -- Building has been abandoned. -Database Manager
2009-05-02 - Updated through online information from Ray Ahrens. -- Much pipework and console could be salvage/reusable material. Some string stops have a high tin content. -Database Manager
2014-12-26 - Updated through online information from Trevor Paraiso. -- Building has been abandoned since 2005. Console still intact. All pipes have been scrapped and remaining swell box/case frame is severely damaged. Remnants of organ are in danger of being destroyed entirely. -Database Manager
2018-04-06 - Updated by William M. Worden, who gave this as the source of the information: I was inside the organ with James Hammann before the church was abandoned. When James Hammann and I were in the organ and inspecting the pipework quite some years ago, much of it seemed older than the 1940s and some diapasons, and other ranks very large scale and high cutup, etc. From what we know of the earlier organ in the church, I think it's reasonable to speculate that this Tellers was a rebuild of the organ of 1911. The few stops mentioned in the Detroit Free Press of June 25, 1911 are present in this organ's specification. -Database Manager
Stoplist taken from the console April 30, 2009 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Detroit, MI
Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church
(aka Abyssinia Church of God in Christ)
Tellers Organ Company
Great: Swell: Choir:
16' Double Open Diapason 16' Bourdon 16' Dulciana
8' First Open Diapason 8' Open Diapason 8' Open Diapason
Second Open Diapason Violin Diapason Geigen Principal
Viola da Gamba Viole d'Orchestre Melodia
Doppelfloete Salicional Dulciana
Gemshorn Aeoline Vox Angelica
Dulciana Voix Celeste 4' Flute d'Amour
4' Octave Stopped Diapason 2' Piccolo Harmonic
Flute Harmonic Gross Flute 8' Clarinet
2' Fifteenth 4' Violina Tremulant
8' Trumpet Traverse Flute Harp
Tremulant 2' Piccolo Chimes
Harp Mixture V Sw to Ch 16 8 4
Chimes 16' Contra Fagotto Ch to Ch 16 4
Sw/Ch to Gt 16 8 4 8' Cornopean Echo on
Gt to Gt 4 Orchestral Oboe
Echo on Vox Humana
Tremulant
Chimes
Harp
Pedal: Ch to Sw 8
Sw to Sw 16 4
16' Double Open Diapason Echo on
Violone
Bourdon
Contra Dulciana Echo:
8' Octave
Violon Cello 8' Salicional
Echo Bourdon Concert Flute
16' Trombone Vox Angelica
Chimes 4' Hohl Flute
Gt/Sw/Ch to Ped 8 4 8' Vox Humana
Pedal in Octaves Tremulant
Chimes
Pistons:
Great 6
Swell 7
Choir 6
Echo 3
Pedal 5 (Also duplicated by toe studs)
All Swells
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