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Giles Beach (1866)

Reformed / United Church of Cohoes: Sanctuary; rear gallery
123 Mohawk Street
Cohoes, NY

OHS convention: 2006

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)


Images


2021-12-17 - Organ case in rear gallery (Jared Ovitt/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main


Notes

2006-05-22 - From 2006 Organ Atlas (p. 109) Electrified with pneumatic pulldowns ca. 1950. -Database Manager

2011-01-24 - Updated through online information from Zachariah TeBordo. -- The organ so far is believed to be by Casavant, and we have sent an email to verify with their records. It also has some issues, that need to be fixed that are minor. Beyond that, the trumpets are inoperable. We are actively searching for a grant to fix the instrument, as we are in a poor inner-city community. -Database Manager

2011-01-25 - Updated through online information from Zachariah. -- The builder is Giles Beach, but the console is Casavant. -Database Manager

2011-02-11 - Updated through online information from Peter O'Hearn. -- The current console is actually a Reisner, detached from the case; the original was attached / integral to the case. The shallots of the choir clarinet are stamped H.T. Levi; the shallots for the remains of the orig. Gt. Trumpet are also stamped H.T. Levi from tenor c up but the shallots for the bottom oct are stamped G. Beach. (The choir clarinet is only a tenor c stop. ) -Database Manager


Stoplist

Stoplist from Scot L. Huntington Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Cahoes, New York
Protestant Dutch Reformed Church

Giles Beach   1866   3 manuals, 27 stops, 32 ranks
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              GREAT ORGAN
           8' Open Diapason            56
           8' Viol d'Amour             56
           8' Clarabella               56
           8' Dulciana                 56
           4' Principal                56
           4' Harmonic Flute           56
       2 2/3' Twelfth                  56
           2' Fifteenth                56
              Sesquialtera III        168
           8' Trumpet                  56

              SWELL ORGAN
          16' Bourdon Treble (TC)      44
          16' Bourdon Bass             12
           8' Open Diapason            56
           8' Stop. Diap. Treble (TC)  44
           8' Stop. Diap. Bass         12
           8' Melodia (TC)             44
           8' German Gamba (TC)        44
           4' Principal                56
              [Piffaro] II            112 *
              [Cornett] III           168 *
           8' Hautboy                  56
              Tremulant
              * labels missing

              CHOIR ORGAN
           8' Open Diapason            56
           8' Stopped Diapason         56
           8' Keraulophon              56
           4' Violin                   56
           4' Wald Flute (TC)          44
           8' Clarinette (TC)          44

              PEDAL ORGAN
          16' Double Open Diapason     25
          16' Double Stop'd Diapason   25

              COUPLERS & MECHANICALS
              Unknown


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2015-02-27]



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