Better Pipe Organ Database

Carl Barckhoff [Sr] (1899)

Carmel Swedish Lutheran Church
Calumet, MI

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
16 stops
16 registers
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: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1976. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Built for Carmel Lutheran (cost $1500), electric blower added 1903. Carmel merged with Bethlehem Lutheran in 1964 to become Faith Lutheran. Relocated to John Simonson residence. John Simonson was a former pastor at Carmel. -Database Manager

2007-11-10 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ was never reinstalled at Faith Lutheran. It went from Carmel Swedish Lutheran directly to pastor Simonson's residence. Source: phone conversation with Pastor Robert Langsteth (ret., Faith Lutheran) on 11/8/07. -Database Manager

2007-11-24 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Case of oak. Couplers actuated by "piston knobs" placed in the manual keyslips. Fixed combination foot trundles: Great Piano & Great Forte. No reed registers. -Database Manager