2010-12-31 - Updated through on-line information from Joseph Bertolozzi. -- NOTES FROM GORDON AUCHINCLOSS, 11/29/2010 St Margaret's Episcopal Church, Staatsburg, is a handsome building with a significant organ. In the 1980s they called me in to tune the organ and suggest a way to get more verve into the sound. They accepted my proposal to substitute the Aeoline on the Swell with a new (similar) flute scale 2-2/3 (made by John Hupalo) lightly voiced (by Andy Huntington). The pipes of the Aeoline were stored in a pipe tray on site, in an upper area of the organ alcove, so it could be restored in the future. The knob legend was not changed when these pipes were installed, though I would have chosen (for a name) "Nasard 3" if pressed. I also tried to project additional sound by creating a semi-dome out of Masonite above the Swell. At the same time the splayed trackers to the Pedal Bourdon were repaired and the controlling ventil releathered and re-strung. I cared for the organ perhaps another eighteen months. The Oboe is subsequent to my activities, and might have been done by Archie Marchi and Joe Corkedale. -Database Manager
2018-06-29 - Updated by Paul Littlefield, who has heard or played the organ. <br> The unlabeled knob Joe Bertolozzi tentatively identified as the bellows signal is now the power switch. -Database Manager
Stoplist taken from the organ Nov. 18, 2010 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Geo. A. Chapman, New-York (ca. 1885) Two manuals of 58 notes Flat Pedalboard of 27 notes Balanced Swell Pedal Tracker action. Slider chests. (Left jamb) SWELL Violin Diapason 8' St. Diap. Treble 8' St. Diap. Bass 8' Flute Harmonique 4' Violina 4’ *(Missing stop name plate) 2 2/3’ (Not original) Sw. Tremolo (Right jamb) GREAT Open Diapason 8' Dulciana 8' Melodia 8' Unison Bass 8’ Octave 4' Fifteenth 2’ **Hautboy 8’ (Not original) PEDAL (on right jamb) Bourdon 16' COUPLERS (on left jamb) Sw. to Ped Gt. to Ped. Sw. to Gt. (on right jamb) Pedal Check Bellows Signal [name plate missing from stop knob; this is an educated guess] COMBINATION PEDALS The are currently unlabelled and non-functioning, but probably standard piano & forte pedals for the Great Balanced, offset Swell shoe * 1980’s addition built by John Hupalo, voiced by Andy Huntington, installed by Gordon Auchincloss, replaced original Aeoline 8’ ** Late 20th addition, tubed off the Great, added (perhaps) by Marchi & Corkedale [Received from Joseph Bertolozzi 2010-12-31.]
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