Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2004-10-30 - Contracted by National Assembly at Washington D. C. To be opened June 16 1891. Pneumatic compensating valves for Great and Swell. Ross Water Motor. The Institution built a new amphitheatre in 1893. Did this instrument go there? -Database Manager
2017-01-17 - Updated by Steve Bartley, naming this as the source of information: The Sunday herald & weekly national intelligencer, June 21, 1891, Page 9;Evening star., June 16, 1891, Page 8;The evening times., May 23, 1902, Page 6. <br>The DC newspapers for 1891 give only a little information concerning the physical size of the organ, and compare it to other large organs. <br>The Glen Echo Chautauqua Institution was a summer park patterned after the larger Methodist camps popular in the 19th century. Built by two wealthey brothers, they had a trolley line run from Washington DC to this rural area on the Potomac river, in Montgomery County MD. Many stone buildings were erected, in the Adirondack style. The park did not pay for itself and the organ was finally put up for sale in 1902, being bought by Samuel Sunset Waters, a DC organist-organ builder. <br>As the rest of the park was also put up for sale, the organ seems to have stayed in situ for a while, as it was advertised with the rest of the park in subsequent newspaper ads. Being a new organ, it seems likely to have been reinstalled in a new location, but research has yet to reveal where. -Database Manager
typed specification Source: from Boston Organ Club Newsletter (Sept & Oct 1978) Date not recorded
Chautauqua, New York
Chautauqua Institution - Glen Echo, Amphitheatre
Carl Barckhoff Church Organ Co. 1891 2 manuals, 32 stops, 36 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN SWELL ORGAN
16' Open Diapason 58 16' Bourdon 58
8' Open Diapason 58 8' Open Diapason 58
8' Doppel Flute 58 8' Stopped Diapason 58
8' Gamba 58 8' Salicional 58
8' Viola 58 8' Geigen Principal 58
5 1/3' Quinte 58 4' Principal 58
4' Octave 58 4' Concert Flute 58
4' Gambetta 58 4' Fugara 58
4' Floete Traverso 58 2' Piccolo 58
3' Quinte 58 Cornet 3 ranks 174
2' Octave 58 16' Fagotta 58
Mixture 3 ranks 174 8' Cornopean 58
8' Trumpet 58 8' Oboe and Bassoon 58
PEDAL ORGAN
32' Resultant --
16' Principal 27
16' Sub Bass 27
8' Floeten Bass 27
8' Violoncello 27
MECHANICAL REGISTERS COMBINATION PEDALS
Coup. Great to Pedal Great Organ Forte
Coup. Swell to Pedal Swell Organ Forte
Coup. Swell to Great Great Organ Mezzo Forte
Bellows Signal Swell Organ Piano
Wind Indicator Great Organ Piano
Tremolo Balanced Swell Pedal
Pneumatic compensating valves to be used for Great and Swell Organ.
A Ross Water Motor to be used to blow the Organ.
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2017-11-27]
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