PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE INSTALLATION OF THE ORGAN
NORTHFIELD COMMUNITY CHURCH
1. Tom Kingston at the completed pipe organ.
2. Moving truck arrives on February 12, 1973 (Lincoln’s Birthday)
3. Professional movers start bringing in parts.
4. Large pedal pipe being brought into the church.
5. Balcony as it appeared before the organ was put into place.
6. Parts placed in the rear of the church.
7. Parts placed outside the choir room.
8. Part placed in the parlor under the4 choir loft.
9. Organ console being brought into the loft.
10. Worker from the factory talking to the electrician.
11. Quiet Swiss made organ blower that will be housed inside the organ.
12. Chest for the Great division going into place.
13. Another picture of the same.
14. George talking to worker from the factory.
15. Chest for the Swell division going into place. Chest weighs 500 pounds.
16. The three chests in place. The Swell chest is higher because of the blower that is housed underneath it.
17. Evening of February 12. Casework around the chest is being completed.
18. Another view of the same.
19. Another view from north side of the loft.
20. Rear of the organ form the stairwell. The rear of the case is finished indicating quality craftsmanship.
21. Pedal board in a vertical position.
22. Stops of the Great division
23. Stops of the Swell division.
24. Stops of the pedal division.
25. Stop action elevated showing the combination action for the presets.
26. First photo of the for our tracker (mechanical) action instrument.
27. Trackers coming out from the console.
28. Worker connecting trackers. This took about one week to do.
29. Trackers going back into the organ from the console.
30. Trackers underneath the chests connected to roller boards.
31. Another view of the same.
32. Still one more view of trackers going up into the organ.
33. Close view of trackers and the adjusters that tighten or loosen the action.
34. The bellows and springs that keep the air pressure constant in the organ.
35. Stop action. This part of th3e organ is electric.
36. Crates containing the pipes.
37. Pipe racks with holes for the pipes.
38. John McCall (associate minister0 and trustee Bill Covert inspect the installation progress.
39. Hoses from chest going to display pipes.
40. Hoses connecting to façade for display pipes.
41. View of Great division chest, roller boards for trackers, swell shutters and hoses for display pipes.
42. Pedal division pipes behind façade.
43. Worker unveiling pipes.
44. Worker placing pipes into position.
45. Same worker continuing to install pipes.
46. View of Swell shutters and two display pipes.
47. Chimney (Rohr flute) flute pipes in the Great division.
48. Holzdulzian pipe next to a paper cup and nail. It gives a perspective as to size.
49. Same pipe with the longest one in the set plus a trumpet pipe with a copper resonator.
50. Holzdulzian pipes with boots for the trumpet pipes.
51. View of the ranks of pipes in the Swell division. Notice the parabolic arrangement of the pipes.
52. Another picture showing the parabolic sharp of ranks of pipes. This is not a picture of the Northfield organ.
53. Trumpet pipes with copper resonators.
54. Trumpet and Fagott (trombone) pipes.
55. Mitered pipes. This process allows a longer pipe to ift in a smaller space.
56. Voicer Wally Guzowski vacuums out Fagott pipes.
57. Guzowski gathers pipes for placement into the organ.
58. Guzowski playing voicing the organ. His assistant is in the chamber making adjustments to the pipes.
59. Assistant modifying pipes for best sound. The voicing process took two weeks.
60. View of the pulpit from the Great division.
61. A happy George Williams stands in front of the organ.
62. George plays the organ for new minister Don Minnick. He had been on the job two weeks before the organ arrived.
63. George Williams talks about the organ to choir members. Joe Larson, who chaired the committee that hired George, is in the blue shirt.
64. Choir rehearsal for dedication Sunday.
65. Dedication Sunday. George Williams plays Bach’s “St. Anne” fugue as John Hultman turns pages.
66. Continuation of “St. Anne” fugue.
67. Soloist Jane Jeffris stands on the box that houses the trackers connecting the console to the organ.
68. George Williams demonstrates various facets of the organ.
69. The Sanctuary Choir sings a hymn during the service.
70. George Williams receives applause after the service.
71. View of the congregation at the dedication service.
72. Organist Robert Lind playing at midday on Sunday in preparation for his dedication program. There were three dedication programs played by George Williams, Robert Lind and Beth Paul Chalupka (deceased).
