We have just completed work on a little organ we built in 1980. Some
of the stops were prepared, and with this work the organ is complete.
This began life as a 4 rank Wicks from the 1950s, with a 16' Gedeckt,
8' Diapason, 8' Salicional (GG), and 8' Dulciana (TC). We kept 2 1/2 of the
ranks (Gedeckt and Salicional, plus 8' Diapason bass), and used the
console over but with new SSL switching.
The organ is in matching stained heart pine cases at each side of the
choirloft. The Great 8' Principal is exposed in the North case
from 4' C, with Swell behind; the Great 4' Octave is exposed in the
mirror-image South case, which houses the Great.
SUMMERVILLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Summerville, SC
GREAT
8 Principal 61 pipes
8 Spielflote 61 pipes
8 Salicional (Swell)
4 Octave 61 pipes
4 Hohlflote 12 pipes (extn 8')
2 Octave 12 pipes (extn 4')
Mixture II-IV 196 pipes
8 Hautbois (Swell)
Swell to Great
SWELL
8 Gedackt 61 pipes
8 Salicional (GG) 54 pipes
4 Gedacktflote 12 pipes (extn 8')
4 Viole 12 pipes (extn 8')
2 Gemshorn 61 pipes
1 1/3 Quinte (TG) 39 pipes
1 Octave 0 pipes (extn 2')
8 Hautbois 61 pipes
Tremulant
PEDAL
16 Subbass 12 pipes (extn Gt 8' Spiel)
8 Principal (Great)
8 Spielflote (Great)
4 Principal (Great 8')
4 Hohlflote (Great)
16 Basson 12 pipes (extn Sw) (12 pipes half-length)
8 Hautbois (Swell)
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal
9 registers / 12 ranks
Wicks, 1955
Ontko & Young 1980, Opus 8
8A - Hautbois added 1984
8B - Spielflote + Mixture added 1994.
Great Mixture pitches:
C1 1 1/3 - 1 IIrks
C13 2 - 1 1/3 - 1 IIIrks
C25 2 2/3 - 2 - 1 1/3 - 1 IVrks
F#43 4 - 2 2/3 - 2 - 1 1/3 IVrks
C#50 4 - 2 2/3 - 2 IIIrks
Scaling: C1 C13 C25 C37 C49 C61 C73
GT 8 Prin -1 -2 -1.75 -1 NM +1
8 Spiel wood -2.5 NM +2.4 +4 +8 +9
4 Oct -4 -4 -3.5 -3 -2.75 -2.75 -1.5
Mixture -6.5 (17 halving, all ranks parallel scaled)
SW 8 Holz Ged -11.5 -9.5 -8.4 -6 -4.3 -2 +1
2 Gems -2 -4 -5.7 -5.3 -6.5 -2
1 1/3 Qte G20:-6.6 -6.3 -5.5 -4.5 -2
The Spielflote has recycled wood gedeckt bass.
The Salicional is typical 1950s Wicks, rescaled and revoiced.
The Spielflote has an extreme taper, with very narrow mouths. In my French
style organs I call it Flute a pointe.
The Basson-Hautbois has inverted-conical resonators with lids for 1-24
(1-12 are half length), and then double-conical resonators with coned tops
up to G56; the trebles are flues.
Wind pressure is 70mm throughout, except 1-12 of Subbass on 85mm.
BTW, we just signed for what will be our Opus 27, a rebuild of a Moller
organ with additions, for the Chapel of Bethany United Methodist Church
in Summerville SC, (just a block from the Presbyterian Church), to be
completed in early 1996.
For those who are interested, the main Sanctuary of the Methodist Church
has an 11 year old Moller in which the 16' Principal pipes are collapsing
under their own weight, and the leathers are already beginning to fail.
We hope this will be rebuilt shortly after the Chapel organ is done.
AJO
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Ontko & Young Co. Inc. Pipe Organ Builders
Charleston, South Carolina OrganCADD Software
803-884-7701 (voice mail) 803-552-8990 (workshop; fax after 3 rings)
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