Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 8, Number 1, DeMotte, Jasper County, 2 December 1937 — PIPE ORGAN RECITAL DEC. 9 [ARTICLE]

PIPE ORGAN RECITAL DEC. 9

AT CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH OF DEMOTTE. The pipe organ purchased by the Christian Reformed church of DeMotte will be completed in the near future, and on the evening of next Thursday, Dec. 9, a recital will be presented to which the public is cordially invited attend. The program will start at 7:30 prompt. The organ was originally built by the W. W. Kimbal Co.; of Chicago, and later the Peter Butzen & Son Co., Inc., of the saane city, enlarged the instrument and installed the chests, action speaking pipes, harp and chimes in the large chamber back of the paneling and grills. The console (key desk) is placed to the north side of the pulpit platform and is a Two Manual and Pedal Mahogony finished from which the performer controls the thirty stop-keys, expression pedals, combination pistons and other controls that operate the instrument. In the basement is the power plant consisting of a three horse power motor that drives the blower fans which supply wind to the pipes and also drives the 10 volt generator, direct current, which furnishes the current that operates the magnets that cause the pneumatics to open or close the valves operating the various actions of the organ. Current from the generator passes through the Console (according to the performer’s will) by means of cables, being on or off as set up by the ptyyer at the Console, and then on into the organ chests to make the various sets of pipes perform their functions. The Chimes are hung along the north wall. The Harp is placed just in front, a trifle to the right of the center and all of the other speaking stops are mounted on chests, taking up every inch of space in the organ loft. Just back of the large grille are twelve shutters of heavy wood that open and close at the will of tie performer by a slight pressue of the right foot. Thus every speaking stop is completely under the control of the player. In the organ there are about nine hundred speaking pipes, chime tubes, and harp bars, varying in size from a metal pipe nine feet six inches long down to pipes as small as lead pencils. There are wood pipes nine feet long that again run down into small metal pipes at the treble ed. Each

of the major eight foot stops has 61 to 85 pipes to complete its set. The beautiful organ case front and grille was designed by Mr. John Hanenberg and the woodwork was executed by Mr. G. Boer, G. Kingma, H. Pruis, Wm. Recker and C. Slager.