Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1920 — NEW PIPE ORGAN FOR ST. JOE [ARTICLE]

NEW PIPE ORGAN FOR ST. JOE

To Coat *13.000: Will Be Installed At Once. 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 SIO,OOO for this purpose, and it is hoped that the additional $3,000 necessary to cover the expense of the installation will be raised. The organ will be built in accordance to the most modern planß of organ builders as recommended by Hope Jones, Audsley, Clarke and others. Two spacious chambers 14x 13x20 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, a choir ai*l a 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 be a duplication in part. There are to be eighteen couplers and twelve combination pistons. The entire organ will have electric action. The instrument will differ In many Tespects from the organs of the pa*t Insofar as all registers will be Under expression and subject t« 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 frequently lacking in power or sacrificed to a larger number of stops. By including these two features, the organ will respond to an almost exhaustless number of combinations, and splendid nuances, inasmuch as it approaches the productions of a well apportioned orchestra. The contract for the construction of the organ has been awarded to the Votteler-Holtkamp-Sparling Organ company of Cleveland, 0., 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 being the $40,000 organ at the Euclid avenue Methodist Episcopal church and the fine East End Baptist church. The organ will probably be ready for an opening concert some time in March or April-