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Builder: Geo. Kilgen & Son, Inc.
Position: Unknown
Design: Traditional With Roll Top
Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Features:
2 Manuals (61 Notes)32 Note Pedal1 Divisions4 StopsElectrical Key ActionElectrical Stop Action

Stop Layout: Unknown
Expression Type: No Enclosed Divisions
Combination Action: Unknown
Control System: Unknown or N/A

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This instrument is: Extant and Playable in this location

Rev. Dr. Van Herd on September 27th, 2023:

From https://www.goldeneagleorgan.com/main.php?p=Opus01

This organ was originally intended as a home practice instrument for myself (Bill Thurmeier). It consists of four ranks.

Everything is unenclosed. These ranks are distributed across two manuals and pedal. The windchests are electro-pneumatic of my (Bill Thurmeier) own manufacture except for treble pipes where direct pallet action was used. This organ was completed in February of 1980.

(The stops) These were derived from:

  1. 16’ Gedeckt (90 pipes)
  2. 4’ Principal (85 pipes)
  3. 2’ Fifteenth (61 pipes)
  4. 16’ Oboe (73 free reeds)

The console was a rebuild of the Kilgen console from the Catholic Cathedral in Tucson. It was originally made about 1937.

The reservoir was new from Organ Supply Industries

The rectifier was converted to solid state from an old Durst Organ Supply rectifier

The blower was made by McDowell Organs, probably in the 1950’s

The console has four mechanical divisional pistons for Swell and Pedal, and Great and Pedal.


Database Manager on December 20th, 2010:

Identified through on-line information from The Zach.

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