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Builder: Holtkamp
Position: Keydesk Attached
Design: Non-Traditional Style, As Consoles by Holtkamp, Schlicker, et al
Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Features:
3 Manuals (61 Notes)32 Note Pedal4 Divisions38 Stops39 RegistersMechanical (Unknown) Key ActionElectrical Stop Action✓ Crescendo✓ Combination Thumb Piston(s)✓ Combination Toe Piston(s)✓ Coupler Toe Piston(s)✓ Sforzando Thumb Piston(s)✓ Sforzando Toe Piston(s)

Stop Layout: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination Action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Control System: Unknown or N/A

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This instrument is: Extant and Playable in this location

Database Manager on August 7th, 2014:

Updated through online information from Scot Huntington. -- The instrument utilizes fiberglass trackers. The bottom 32 notes of the Great 16' are on a unit chest to permit duplexing to the pedal.


Database Manager on October 2nd, 2011:

Updated through online information from Amber Harding.


Database Manager on July 5th, 2010:

Updated through on-line information from robert grant. -- I am the architect who designed the renovations to the Colgate Memorial Chapel where this instrument is located. I worked with Chick Holtkamp to facilitate coordinating the instrument's installation with new renovations to the auditorium. I've indicated information about the instrument as I recall after many years of having seen or played it. Any number of the selections could be inaccurate. It is "tracker action" to what degree I'm not certain. Its very unusual contemporary design, as Chick was wont to do at the time, contrasts sharply with the Georgian interior of the chapel, details which I followed faithfully in the renovations. There was a "bumping of the heads" over this with Chick winning out. It is "odd" in appearance, but the more I saw of it later, the more I grew to like it. It is impressive, with beautiful tonal design, which overcomes the depressing acoustics in the room. It was a joy to work with Chick even though our disagreements were many and often less than cordial. Neither of us took it personally, and we remained friends until Chick's death.


Database Manager on December 23rd, 2005:

Updated 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:
Replaced E. M. Skinner Opus 276 (1917).


Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:

Status Note: There 1994.


Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:

Frank Brehmer organ.

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