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The below specification is printed on the glossy Holtkamp advertisment which serves as this month's feature article in The American Organist.

This 1927 instrument at St. Peter's, my former church, was completely unknown to me. (Currently, St. Peter's has a very nice Walter Holtkamp, Sr. instrument from 1958.)

(The American Organist has really gone downhill if it allows an advertisement to take center stage, and, as of this writing, the Holtkamp website appears to be four years out of date.)

Pedal
16 Diapason
16 Bourdon
8 Cello (Gt)
8 Flute (Sw)
IV Choralbass (Ch)
16 English Horn (Sw)
Gt to Ped
Sw to Ped
Ch to Ped

Great
16 Violone (TC)
8 Diapason
8 Flute Symphony
8 Second Violin
8 Cello
4 Klangflote (Sw)
2 Flautino (Sw)
Gt 16
Gt 8
Gt 4

Swell
8 Geigen Principal
8 Stopped Diapason
8 Violin
8 Vox Angelica
8 Echo Choir (Double enclosed)
4 Flute
16 English Horn¹
8 Horn¹
Sw 16
Sw 8
Sw 4

Choir
16 Contra Dolce (Gt)²
8 Viola (Gt)³
8 Concert Flute
8 Ludwig Tone⁴
8 Viol d'Amour (Gt)³
4 Orchestral Flute (Gt)³
III Harmonics (Gt)³
2 Dulcitone (Gt)³
Ch 16
Ch 8
Ch 4

Couplers
All manuals to ped
Sw to Gt, Ch to Gt and Sw to Ch each at 16, 8 and 4

1. These order of these two reeds was switched in the published specs but I can't imagine why.

2. Borrowed from which stop on the Great? There's nothing at 16 pitch!

3. How these stops are borrowed from the Great is sort of a mystery.

4. Ahh, Ludwig Tone, how I long to play upon thee!

Labels: Holtkamp