Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 290, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1920 — WILL INSTALL $10,000 ORGAN [ARTICLE]

WILL INSTALL $10,000 ORGAN

ST. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE TO HAVE ONE OF THE LATEST PIPE ORGANS. What will very likely be the finest Pipe-Organ in Northwestern Indiana will soon be installed in the St. Joseph’s College Chapel. «Friends Of the institution have donated the sum of approximately $10,000.00 for this purpose, and it is hoped that the additional $3,000.00 necessary to cover the expense of the installation will be raised. The organ will be built in accordance to the most modern plans of organ builders as recommended by Hope-Jones, Audsley, Clarke, and others. Twq spacious chambers, 14x13x20 feet high are being erected in the choir loft to receive the mechanism and pipes. There will be three manuals and a pedal. The instrument will be divided into four expression divisions—a Great, a Swell, the Choir and the Pedal. The Great will have six registers; the Swell, seven; the Choir, five, and the Pedal, six, making a total of twenty-four registers. Only one of these will bd a duplication in phrt. There is to be eightteen couplers and twelve combination pistons. The entire organ will have electric action. The instrument will differ in many respects, from the organs of the past in so far as .all registers will be under expression and subject to diminuendo and crescendo. None of the pipes will be visible. * The designers have included an exceptional pedal division, the part of the organ which is requently lacking in power/ or sacrificed’ to fa larger number of stops*. By including these two features, the organ will respond to almost exhaustldss number of combinations, and Bplandid>>nuances, inasmuch as it approaches the productions of a well apportioned orCh The* contract for the construction of the organ has been awarded to the Votteler-Holtkamp-Sparling Organ Company of Cleveland, Ohio, after a full year of study of the various makes by a committee.. This company has built some remarkably fine organs, which they have placed in the city of Cleveland, some of them being in the best of that city s churches and theatres, among them the $40,000.00 organ at Euclid Ave. Methodist Episcopal Church, and ,the fine East-End Baptist church. . The organ will' probably, be open for an opening concert some time in March or April..