St. John's Pipe Organ

The present pipe organ at St. John’s was installed in 1979 by its builder, the Schantz Organ Company of Orrville, Ohio. Its specifications were designed in consultation with the late John Rotz, Organist and Choirmaster at St. John’s. Two stops were added by the late Donald Hoyer and now five more stops and a Solid State Stop Processor with 99 levels of memory have been added by William T. Pugh.

Organ Specifications

 

Great Organ exposed

16′ Pommer 61 pipes
8′ Principal 61 pipes
8′ Pommer 12-pipe extension
4′ Octave 61 pipes
4′ Pommer 12-pipe extension**
2′ Super Octave 61 pipes
IV ranks Fourniture 244 pipes
8′ State Trompette 61 pipes
8′ Hautbois (from the Swell)**
  Chimes 25 tubes
  Zymbelstern  

Swell Organ enclosed under expression

8′ Rohrflöte 61 pipes
8′ Viole 61 pipes
8′ Viole celeste t.c. 49 pipes
4′ Prestant 61 pipes
4′ Koppelflöte 61 pipes
2 2/3 Nasat 61 pipes
2′ Flautino 12-pipe extension
1 3/5 Terz 61 pipes
III ranks Plein Jeu 183 pipes**
8′ Trompette 61 pipes
8′ Hautbois 61 pipes**
4′ Clarion 12-pipe extension**
  Tremulant  

Ruckpositiv Organ exposed on balcony rail

8′ Holzgedackt 61 pipes
4′ Nachthorn 61 pipes
2′ Prinzipal 61 pipes
1 1/3′ Quinte 61 pipes
III ranks Zimbel 183 pipes
8′ Krummhorn 61 pipes
8′ State Trumpette (from the Great)
  Tremulant  

Pedal Organ partially exposed

32′ Cornet (from the Bourdon)*
16′ Principal 32 pipes
16′ Bourdon 32 pipes
16′ Pommer (from the Great)
10 2/3′ Quinte (from the Bourdon)*
8′ Principal 12-pipe extension
8′ Bourdon 12-pipe extension
8′ Pommer (from the Great)
4′ Choralbass 12-pipe extension
4″ Bourdon 12-pipe extension
III ranks Mixture 96 pipes
16′ Contre-Trompette 12-pipe extension
8′ Trompette (from the Swell)
4′ Clarion (from the Swell)**

There are 34 ½ ranks with 9 extensions (for a total of 2025 pipes) which are controlled by 42 stops with 24 couplers and 47 pistons.

*Added about 1983 by the late Donald Hoyer of the Hoyer Organ Company, Lawrence, Kansas.

**Added in 2002 by William T. Pugh of Top Rung Tower Chime & Organ Service, Inc., Manhattan, Kansas.