Better Pipe Organ Database

Dobson Pipe Organ Builders Opus 8 (1978)

St. Olaf College: Practice room, Christiansen Hall of Music
1520 St. Olaf Avenue
Northfield, MN

Images

2017-07-01 - Keydesk (Photograph by Andrew Schaeffer/Database Manager)

2017-07-01 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by Andrew Schaeffer/Database Manager)

2017-07-01 - Pipeshades (Photograph by Andrew Schaeffer/Database Manager)

2016-03-10 - Console and Organ Case (Photograph by Mark Kieffer/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Console position: Detached Keydesk (Mechanical Action)
2 manuals
7 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: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: No Enclosed Divisions
Combination action: None
Has hitchdown couplers

Notes

2010-11-25 - Updated through online information from Connor Annable. -Database Manager

2017-08-16 - Updated by Andrew Schaeffer, who has heard or played the organ. -Database Manager

2021-03-02 - I've seen it in the practice room. The organ facilities are in Christiansen Hall and the Skifter radio building next door. -David Engen

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from the console May 26, 2010 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Manual I
8' Rohrflote
4' Spitzflote
1 1/3' Gemsquinte
Man. II to Man. I

Manual II
8' Gedeckt
2' Principal

Pedal
8' Spitzflote
4' Choralbass
Man. I to Ped.
Man. II to Ped.

[Received on line from Andrew Schaeffer May 28, 2010.]

Websites

Dobson Pipe Organ Builders, Ltd. - Op. 8 - Stoplist, brief cescription (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)