Geo. Kilgen & Son, Inc.
Opus 3386, 1924
St. Josaphat Roman Catholic Church
2311 N. Southport Ave.
Chicago, IL, US
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CONSOLES
Builder: Geo. Kilgen & Son, Inc.
Position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
Design: Traditional With Roll Top
Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Features:
3 Manuals (61 Notes)32 Note Pedal5 Divisions53 RegistersElectrical Key ActionElectrical Stop Action✓ Crescendo✓ Combination Thumb Piston(s)✓ Sforzando Toe Piston(s)✓ Combination Trundle(s)Stop Layout: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination Action: Unknown
Control System: Unknown or N/A
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DETAILS
Exhibited in the 2012 OHS convention(s)
This instrument is: Extant and Playable in this location
As is clear from the Kilgens' letter of November 17, 1924, they propose to use the parish's existing casework, which was built for St. Josaphat by Bernard Schaefer in 1902 (OHS #73747). The Kilgens also note that they will be rescaling the existing Swell Bourdon, surely also from the 1902 Schaefer - and while their use of other Schaefer pipework seems to be implied, it is not asserted.
Database Manager on August 3rd, 2011:
Updated through online information from Jonathan Gunderlach. -- I found this note while researching the history of St. Josaphat Parish. According to A History of the Poles in America to 1908, Vol. 2 (Wactaw Kruszka, trans. Krystyna Jankowski, The Catholic University of America Press, 1994, page 200), one Professor Singenberg of St. Francis Seminary in St. Francis, WI. designed this organ.
Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
Status Note: There 1996
Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
Echo division behind main altar.
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