Elm Grove Lutheran Church - Elm Grove

Wisconsin, USA

Elm Grove Lutheran Church's Casavant Organ was originally installed in the 1960s. However, after 40 years of constant use, the console was starting to have a number of problems. There were also serveral other age-related items that needed to be addressed, like Pedal division pipes that were falling under their own weight.

In addition, the original 40+ rank stoplist (drawn up by Dr. Paul Bunjes) made use of every inch of the available chamber space. Yet this stoplist did not include even ONE Celeste stop, leaving the organ lacking for some important and warm sounds.
Triune Music provided a solution that was very competitive with other bids for just a new console alone (with no tonal additions). However, President Steve Smith felt that this project needed to add some of those missing stops, like a Voix Celeste in the Swell to work with the existing Salicional rank. It was also decided that the organ needed some digital stops in a floating division to accompany a Cantor or Celebrant down in the Chancel.

We worked tirelessly with Organist Rick Ewert until the specification was "right," giving him everything he needed both now and into the future. Our plans included a MIDI interface, recording capability, and even a 1,000+ voice sound module. This is a very complete and successful instrument due to collaboration between the church musician and the staff of Triune Music.