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CONSOLES
Builder: Unknown Builder
Position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
Design: Traditional Without Cover
Pedalboard Type: Flat Straight
Features:
2 Manuals 3 Divisions20 StopsMechanical (Unknown) Key ActionMechanical Stop ActionStop Layout: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Expression Type: Unknown
Combination Action: None
Control System: Unknown or N/A
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DETAILS
This instrument is: Not Extant and Not Playable in this location
The photo of the organ in the front choir loft is from the church's second building during the congregation's 50th anniversary celebration (1836-1886). The church building was constructed from 1843 to 1847 at the corner of Villa Street and Fulton Street in Elgin, and it was eventually sold to the Swedish Lutheran Society in July of 1888.
It may be the organ in the photo is an earlier instrument than what church records describe below:
"With the growing congregation, during 1869 and 1870, the church was rebuilt and enlarged. An organ loft was added at the rear of the church, the steeple rebuilt, a gallery put in, the roof was raised, the interior redecorated[,] and an organ put in." (Weiss, John. Elgin's Holy Hill, Part 1. Elgin, IL: John Weiss, 2021.)
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