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Builder: Unknown
Position: Movable Console
Design: Traditional With Roll Top
Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Features:
4 Manuals (61 Notes)32 Note Pedal7 Divisions80 Stops80 RegistersElectrical Key ActionElectrical Stop Action✓ Crescendo✓ Combination Thumb Piston(s)✓ Combination Toe Piston(s)✓ Coupler Thumb Piston(s)✓ Coupler Toe 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: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Control System: Unknown or N/A

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This instrument is: Extant and Playable in this location

Database Manager on March 1st, 2019:

At the time of the organ's move to Calvary Presbyterian, the church had over 1,700 members; as the area around the church declined, the congregation moved further out to a much smaller building and the old location at 8240 Grand River was sold to the Abundant Life Christian Center, who later sold it to the Greater Faith for Deliverance Church; after a fire on March 21, 2009 that caused serious smoke and water damage, the building was completely abandoned and looted of anything of value.


Database Manager on July 28th, 2010:

Updated through on-line information from Richard Helderop. -- The instrument, as of 2010, is being restored for its original owner- Orchestra Hall, Detroit. The original 1924 installation was 73 ranks and the 1925 "addition" of the Tuba Division was 23 ranks.


Database Manager on June 10th, 2010:

Identified through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -- Tuba Organ added as Op. 1112 in 1925; when the Detroit Symphony Orchestra left the hall in 1942, the organ was moved to Calvary Presbyterian Church minus the Tuba Organ and 32' Open Diapason (which were sold to a Toledo organ man, stored and then discarded in the 1960's); in 1992 the organ was moved to the Music House instrument museum in Traverse City, Michigan, with the console on display and the rest of the organ stored. It remains in storage with hopes to move it back to Detroit.

Related Instrument Entries: Casavant Frères Ltée. (Opus 1112, 1925) , Toledo Pipe Organ Co. (1943)

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