Lehman Memorial Methodist / Riverside Community Church: Sanctuary; front
Columbia Ave.
Hatboro, PA
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
Images
2015-04-28 - Console (Photograph by Paul Marchesano, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
Postmarked 1955 - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Vintage postcard, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2015-04-28 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by Paul Marchesano/Database Manager)
2015-04-28 - Pipe Facade (Photograph by Paul Marchesano/Database Manager)
2015-04-28 - Action (Photograph by Paul Marchesano/Database Manager)
2015-04-28 - Blower (Photograph by Paul Marchesano/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
- 2 manuals
- 4 stops
- 27 registers
- 1 divisions
- Key action Type: Electrical
- Stop action Type: Electrical
- Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
- Manual compass: 61 notes
- Pedal compass: 32 notes
- Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Has crescendo
- Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
- Has combination thumb pistons
Notes
2004-12-21 - Information identifying this instrument from the Austin Organs, Inc. web site, accessed December 20, 2004: http://www.austinorgans.com/organ-research.htm. -Database Manager
2015-04-30 - Updated through online information from Paul Marchesano. -- Church sold in 2013 now known as Riverside Community Church. Organ is set to be transferred to an individual for installation in a home in Pennsylvania. Organ visited and inspected and documented April 28, 2015. Subsequently the organ was removed to a home in the Poconos. It is unknown if the reinstallation occured. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Stoplist taken from the console April 28, 2015 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Horsham, Pennsylvania
Riverside Community Church (formerly Lehman Memorial Methodist)
Austin Organ Co., Op. 1468, 1926
GREAT
16' Bourdon
8' Open Diapason
8' Gedeckt
8' Viole
8' Dulciana
4' Octave
4' Flute D'Amour
4' Violin
4' Dulcet
2' Flautino
SWELL
16' Contra Dolce
8' Gedeckt
8' Viole
8' Dulciana
4' Flute D'Amour
4' Violin
4' Dulcet
2⅔' Quintette
2' Flautino
Tremolo
PEDAL
16' Resultant
16' Bourdon
8' Open Diapason
8' Gedeckt
8' Viole
8' Dulciana
4' Octave
4' Flute
Unit organ, 4 ranks, 321 pipes
Pedal Resultant 16 plays tonic and fifth of Gedeckt 8 rank
Mechanical thumb pistons (four each) for Great and Swell
Mechanical divisional cancel bars above stop keys for each division
Balanced Swell Shoe
Crescendo Shoe
[Received from Paul Marchesano 2015-05-01.]
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