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Hinners Pipe Organ Installed in 1916

Saturday, April 2, 2022/Categories: History

In August 1916 it was agreed that a better organ was needed. By October a grand pipe organ was installed, manufactured by the Hinners Organ Company of Pekin, Illinois, at a cost of $2,450.00. It has 17 ranks with 932 pipes ranging from pencil size to nine feet in length. After sitting in disrepair from 1958 to 1983, it was fully restored in 1984 by the Quimby Organ Company, Warrenburg, MO. It is a tracker organ, all mechanical in action.

The organ at St. Mary's Church is listed on the Pipe Organ Database.

Technical Details:

  • Chests: Slider
  • 17 ranks. 932 pipes. 3 divisions. 2 manuals. 17 stops

Consoles:

Main:

  • Manuals: 2
  • Divisions: 3
  • Stops: 17
  • Position: Keydesk attached, manuals set into case.
  • Manual Compass: 61
  • Pedal Compass: 59
  • Key Action: Mechanical connection from key to chest (tracker, sticker or mix).
  • Stop Action: Mechanical connection between stop control and chest.
  • Console Style: Traditional style with a keyboard cover that can be lifted to form a music rack.
  • Stop Controls: Drawknobs in horizontal rows on terraced/stepped jambs.
  • Combination Action: Fixed mechanical system.
  • Swell Control Type: Balanced swell shoes/pedals.
  • Pedalboard Type: Flat straight pedalboard.
  • Has Hitchdown Couplers
 Stoplist J. J. A. Davis, 1997
Great:
8' Open Diapason, 61 metal pipes
8' Melodia, 61 wood pipes
8' Viole de Gamba, 61 metal pipes
8' Dulciana, 61 metal pipes
4' Principal, 61 metal pipes
4' Flute d'Amour, 61 wood & metal pipes
Swell: (enclosed)
16' Lieblich Gedeckt [TC], 49 wood pipes
8' Violin Diapason, 61 metal pipes
8' Stopped Diapason, 61 wood pipes
8' Salicional, 61 metal pipes
8' Voix Celeste [TC], 49 metal pipes
8' Aeoline, 61 metal pipes
4' Flute Harmonic, 61 metal pipes
8' Oboe [TC], 49 metal reed pipes
Pedal:
16' Subbass, 30 wood pipes
16' Bourdon, 30 wood pipes
8' Flute, 30 wood pipes

 

 

 

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