Dobson Pipe Organ Builders
1994
First Presbyterian Church
Sanctuary
111 Capital Ave. NE
Battle Creek, MI, US
61 Ranks - 3,352 Pipes
Instrument ID: 28017 ● Builder ID: 1673 ● Location ID: 6733
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STOPLISTS
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CONSOLES
Builder: Unknown
Position: Movable Console
Design: Traditional Without Cover
Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Features:
3 Manuals (61 Notes)32 Note Pedal4 Divisions56 StopsMechanical (Balanced Tracker) Key Action✓ Combination Thumb Piston(s)✓ Combination Toe Piston(s)✓ Coupler Toe Piston(s)✓ Sforzando Thumb Piston(s)✓ Sforzando Toe Piston(s)Stop Layout: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination Action: Computerized/Digital
Control System: Unknown or N/A
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DETAILS
This instrument is: Extant and Playable in this location
Updated through online information from Chad Boorsma. -- The basic layout of the organ, with the Great and Pedal in the left chamber and Swell over Choir in the right, is from the Skinner organ. Nine stops still retain pipes from the Skinner organ, and the Skinner facade also remains. The organ also includes the original blower, the original tremolos and swell engines, the original framing and swell fronts, the 1979 Pedal windchest, static reservoirs and metal windlines, and nearly all pipework from the previous instrument.
Database Manager on September 27th, 2009:
Updated through online information from John Ourensma.
Database Manager on April 16th, 2009:
Updated through online information from John Ourensma.
Database Manager on September 5th, 2007:
Identified through online information from Trevor Dodd. -- The organ includes a couple or ranks left from the previous organ (Skinner op. 720)
Webpage Links: Dobson Pipe Organ Builders, Ltd. - Instruments [Battle Creeek page]
Related Instrument Entries: Skinner Organ Co. (Opus 720, 1928)
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