Immanuel Lutheran Church, Flattville, IL
Background
This organ, located in a small midwestern farming community,
started life as Opus 814 of the Verlinden Organ Company of
Milwaukee, WI. It originally had tubular-pneumatic action
ventil windchests. An extremely poor quality "rebuild" c. 1990
provided the instrument with new wind chests and some pipes.
Within two years the chests were failing even as new pipework
was falling over. John-Paul Buzard was able to work with the
congregation to educate them about what the organ needed, and
had not received in the previous work. A videotape was made of
the interior of the instrument, which was shown to the
congregation as part of this learning process. The congregation
responded with total support to rebuild the instrument properly.
Scope of the Rebuild Project
Buzard Pipe Organ Builders of
Champaign, IL, signed a contract in 1995 to completely rebuild
the instrument as their Opus 16, with 18 stops and 21 ranks. It
retains the original case and facade, with the keydesks and a
roll-top built into the center of the case.
The scope of the project included:
new keyboards and pedalboard;
new tilting tablet stop and coupler controls;
new Peterson solid state relay and combination action;
new electric action slider chests for the manual pipework;
new windchests for the Pedal stops;
new blower and wind system within the organ case;
retention of as many of the existing Wangerin pipes as possible;
additional stops (*) in harmony with the existing pipework.
The work included the following Peterson components:
diode matrix relay;
duo-set combination action;
swell and crescendo pedals and accessories;
swell shade controller;
Z-bracket tilting tablet unit;
pedal key contact assemblies;
chime action and chimes;
slider motor controllers.
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GREAT
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SWELL
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PEDAL
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8' Open Diapason
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8' Stopped Diapason
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*16' Bourdon
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8' Melodia
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8' Salicional
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16' Lieblich Gedeckt
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8' Dulciana
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8' Voix Celeste
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*8' Principal
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*4' Principal
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*4' Principal
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8' Gedeckt Flute (Ext)
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*2' Fifteenth
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4' Harmonic Flute
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*4' Choral Bass (Ext)
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Chimes
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*2' Blockflute
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*16' Trombone (Ext)
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*IV Plein Jeu
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*8' Trumpet
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*8' Oboe
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Tremulant
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16' Swell to Great
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16' Swell to Swell
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8' Great to Pedal
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8' Swell to Great
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Swell Unison Off
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8' Swell to Pedal
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4' Swell to Great
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4' Swell to Swell
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4' Swell to Pedal
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