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Holy Cross Catholic Church

Columbus, OH
2/6 Page
1928/1981


Photos of the Console

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The console for the organ sits in the center of the choir loft in the back of the church. The pipe chamber can be seen on the far left in the top photo.

This console was built by Klann Organ Supply and replaced the original Page console in the late 1970s. The original console was white and had stop tabs in a horseshoe arrangement around the manuals or keyboards, typical of a theater organ.

The bottom photo helps give some perspective of the console's placement in relation to the rest of the church. Someone was creative and mounted the microphone stand on the top of th
e choir loft wall.
Console Lots of room for growth! This console is loaded up with stop knobs, many of which are blank allowing for future organ expansion. Many of the stops simply pull different parts of the same rank of pipe, and stop knobs with the same name in different divisions of the organ also are pulling the same pipes.
Console tabs The Great Division also has many blank stop knobs. This also is the only division with a stop for the Tremolo. 
Couplers
In the center are the coupler tabs for the pipe organ, as well as the indicator lights. With such a simple organ, there isn't a need to have lots of couplers between divisions, or within divisions of the organ.

Great stop tabs Down below we see the pedal board along with the expression pedals for Swell and Crescendo, as well as two coupler toe studs and a toe stud for Sforzando.
Wiring While the pipe organ's wiring is not physically on the console, it is directly linked to it. This wiring was likely installed along with the replacement console in the late 1970s.

pedals Here is a close up of one of the wiring relay boards seen above.





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