Casavant Frères Ltée.
1959

Originally Skinner Organ Co. (Opus 393, 1924)

Fountain Street Baptist Church

Sanctuary

24 Fountain Street NE
Grand Rapids, MI, US

76 Ranks - 4,657 Pipes
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Builder: Unknown
Position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
Design: Traditional With Roll Top
Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Features:
4 Manuals (61 Notes)32 Note Pedal8 Divisions76 Stops✓ Crescendo✓ Combination Thumb Piston(s)✓ Combination Toe Piston(s)✓ Coupler Thumb Piston(s)✓ Coupler Toe Piston(s)✓ Sforzando Thumb Piston(s)✓ Sforzando Toe Piston(s)
Stop Layout: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination Action: Unknown
Control System: Unknown or N/A

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This instrument is: Extant and Playable in this location

Database Manager on April 3rd, 2011:

The cost of this work was $35,000. Casavant retained the Skinner console, added one blower, removed stops (including the 32' Wood Bombarde), added stops, and created new Great and Gallery divisions. The design was drawn up by Edwin D. Northrup and Beverly Howerton in consultation with Lawrence Phelps. Lowering of the wind-pressure necessitated revoicing of all the old pipework that was reused.

Database Manager on May 19th, 2010:

Updated through online information from Chad Boorsma -- The congregation became independent in the mid-1960s and changed its name to just Fountain Street Church.

Database Manager on January 8th, 2006:

Identified through information adapted from E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: Rebuild of E. M. Skinner Opus 393 (1924).

Related Instrument Entries: Skinner Organ Co. (Opus 393, 1922) , Tellers Organ Co. (1970) , Austin Organs, Inc. (Opus 2782, 2003)

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