Toledo, Ohio
Ashland Avenue Baptist Church

John Brombaugh & Associates   Opus 9   1972    2 manuals, 19 stops, 28 ranks
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      I. GREAT        (56 notes: C - g ''')
     16' Bourdon +
      8' Præstant I-II   in discant from fis'
      8' Holpijp +
      4' Octave
      4' Spielflöte
      2' Octave
  III-X  Mixture
      8' Trumpet *

     II. RUCKPOSITIVE (56 notes: C - g ''')
      8' Gedackt
      4' Præstant +
      4' Rohrflöte +
      2' Octave
  1 1/3' Quinte
     II  Sesquialtera
      8' Musette

         PEDAL        (30 notes: C - f')
     16' Subbass +
      8' Octave +
     16' Fagot
      8' Trumpet *

         COUPLERS, ETC.
         Great - Pedal
         Positive - Pedal
         Positive - Great

         Tremulant

      +  Some pipes common with another stop
      *  Great stop playable in Pedal by transmission

Mechanical key action, suspended; mechanical stop action; attached keydesk

Metal flue pipes of high lead alloys, hammered and adjusted for vocale sound

Cone tuning for small flue pipes; soldered hats for stopped metal pipes;
reeds easily tunable by organist

Solid wood slider windchests and wind system with large wedge bellows;
no stabilizers required

Windpressure: 90 mm water column

Originally in Werckmeister III, Builder retuned the organ to Kellner's
"Bach" temperament in 1995.

The freestanding casework of solid red oak to match the church's interior
woodwork is architecturally based on the Dutch Renaissance organs in Rhenen
and Brouwershaven; the organ is placed in the gallery located above the
baptistry at the front corner of the nave of the "Akron plan" styled church
built in the 1890s.

Of special interest is the Great Mixture that is based on the design concept
of the ancient Dutch Blockwerk upperwork. Playing of the Ruckpositive from
the upper keyboard follows a precedent found in some historic organs in
Province Groningen, the Netherlands.

Dedication on 15 November 1972, played by Susan Craig, organist of the church,
with additional dedicatory recitals played in January and May 1973 by Vernon
Wolcott, Prof of Organ at BGSU, and David S. Boe, Prof of Organ at Oberlin
Conservatory of Music and advisor to the church for this project.

This is the first instrument built following Brombaugh's comprehensive study
of many historic European organs in 1971 from support by a grant from the
Ford Foundation.

[Received from Steven E. Lawson  August 19, 2014]