Curator & Church Organist: Rick Vander Woude
Highwood Lutheran Church lays claim to having the oldest pipe organ in the Province of Alberta. The organ was completed in 1870 by the O'Dell Organ Company of New York. It was built for a Presbyterian church of Sing-Sing, New York. It was obtained by Highwood from a Baptist church in Ossining, NY in 1967.
Highwood Lutheran's organ is a mechanical, tracker-action instrument. The organ has two manuals (keyboards) and a pedal-board. The manuals each have 58 keys and the pedal has 25 keys. There are 23 ranks, 4 couplers, 8 combination pistons, and approximately 4,000 individual pipes ranging in size from a few inches long to 16 feet long. It has two divisions, or sections, the Great Division and the Swell Division.
Highwood Lutheran Church Calgary J.H. and C.S. O’Dell Organ Company (New York) Opus 81 (1870) Stoplist Great 16’ Double Open Diapason (independent) 8’ Open Diapason (façade) 8’ Clarionet Flute 8’ Keraulophon 4’ Principal 4’ Flute Harmonic (tenor C) 2 2/3 Twelfth 2’ Fifteenth Sesquialtera III 8’ Trumpet (tenor C) Swell 16’ Bourdon Bass (bottom octave) 16’ Double Diapason (tenor C) 8’ Stopped Diapason (bottom octave) 8’ Open Diapson (tenor C) 8’ Dulciana 8’ Stopped Flute 4’ Principal 2’ Fifteenth Cornet II (tenor C) 8’ Oboe (tenor C) Pedal 16’ Double Open Diapason 8’ Violon Cello Couplers Swell to Great Swell to Pedal Great to Pedal Tremulant 8 mechanical preset pistons Great to Swell on/off reversible Fully Mechanical key and stop action Pedal Compass – C to C (25 notes) Manual Compass - 58 notes C-a
