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St. Brendan Catholic Church
Hilliard, OH
2/8 Humpe
1981

Photos of the Console

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Console3 The console for this organ sits on a platform and can be moved to either side of the organ. Originally it was fixed in place. The large hole on the left front is where a control for the church's lights used to be installed (this hole has since been covered). The tabs in the middle are couplers the organ's divisions.
Console4 The organ's simplicity is illustrated in this photo. Only two toe studs are available for the organist. The two expression pedals are marked for the Swell box and for the crescendo.
console1 Like many classical organs, this organ has stop knobs instead of stop tabs. This is a view of the knobs on the left side of the console. Despite the look of having lots of resources, most of these stops are harmonic stops which involve using one or more ranks to create sound. 
Console2 Here is a view of the stop knobs on the right side of the console. Again we have more stops than we do ranks.  The organ was prepared with an Antiphonal Division as it was in the plans at one time to add such a division.
Console6 The Humpe Organ Company is a small operation in northeastern Ohio. Much of their work tends to focus on pipe organ additions and rebuilds of equipment. 
Console5 Here's something you don't see every day - the back of the console removed! The two manuals (keyboards) sit across the middle toward the top of the console with divisional couplers above them. Toward the bottom you can see the Swell and Crescendo pedals.
Console6 This is a close up of the wiring on the bottom right side. If you look closely you can see names of a few ranks of pipes. Every wire in each row corresponds to an individual pipe. This photo illustrates how complicated wiring can be even a small organ. 

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