The road to this splendid film event stretches back 127 years. In the mid-1890s The Organ Club rapidly moved to provide St. John's Lutheran, Bellevue, Ohio, with a pipe organ. The John Sole tracker, 1895-1933, served the parish leading Lutheran services and anniversary celebrations until a larger organ was needed to fill those roles. From 1934-1959, the Knapp Memorial Organ picked up where the Sole organ left off. No detailed records of this organ exist. With the growth of the parish a larger church edifice was built and a "new" pipe organ from the Toledo Pipe Organ Company (TPOC) was installed in 1961-62. After serving St. John's until 1997, the Bunn Minnick Pipe Organ Company of Columbus, Ohio, removed the TPOC organ for repair, re-wiring, re-leathering, and expansion, which eventually brought the instrument to its present fifty-three ranks. The Bunn Minnick organ, 1997-2017, evolved from purely religious duties to a wider use for public concerts and films. The final act in the history of the organs of St. John's occurred with the major tonal re-design of the Bunn Minnick instrument from 2018-2021.
This historical monograph traces in detail the development of these four organs, their evolving use, and the parishioners, citizenry and youth of Bellevue, Ohio, that contributed to this 127-year-old musical journey.
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