Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church: Sanctuary
Fifth Avenue / 55th Street
New York City: Manhattan, NY
Images
2023-05-02 - Church interior (Photograph by Kevin R. Cartwright, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2023-05-02 - Sanctuary interior (Photograph by Kevin R. Cartwright, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2023-05-02 - Organ case and front of sanctuary (Photograph by Kevin R. Cartwright, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2023-05-02 - Organ case (Photograph by Kevin R. Cartwright, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2023-05-02 - Console and organ case (Photograph by Kevin R. Cartwright, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2023-05-02 - Current console (Photograph by Kevin R. Cartwright, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
Unknown - 1996 Wicks console (Photograph from Wicks Organ Co., collection of Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
Unknown - Church exterior (Photograph by Steven E. Lawson/Database Manager)
Unknown - 1961 Austin Console (Photograph by Kenneth Stein/Database Manager)
Unknown - Unknown (Photograph from Austin ad in THE AMERICAN ORGANIST March 1961/Database Manager)
Unknown - Sanctuary interior (Photograph by Steven E. Lawson/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
- 4 manuals
- 90 stops
- 117 registers
- 8 divisions
- Key action Type: Electrical
- Stop action Type: Electrical
- Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
- Manual compass: 61 notes
- Pedal compass: 32 notes
- Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Has crescendo
- Combination action: Remote Pneumatic/Mechanical Capture
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has combination toe pistons
- Has coupler thumb pistons
- Has coupler toe pistons
- Has tutti thumb pistons
- Has tutti toe 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
2005-12-20 - Updated through information adapted from <i>E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List</i>, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: <br><i>Includes 30 ranks from E. M. Skinner Opus 206, which it replaced.</i> -Database Manager
2014-05-13 - New Wicks console in 1996; rebuilt and releathered by Austin in 1998; revoicing and tonal changes by Daniel Angerstein in 1999. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Stoplist copied from <i>The Diapason</i> November 1960 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
New York, New York
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
Austin Op. 2347 1961 4/119
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GREAT (Primary) SWELL POSITIV
16' Violone 61 16' Lieblich Gedeckt 68 8' Nasonflöte 61
8' Diapason 61 16' Contra Dulciana 68 8' Spitzflöte 61
4' Octave 61 8' Geigen Principal 68 4' Prinzipal 61
2 2/3' Twelfth 61 8' Hohlflöte 68 4' Koppelflöte 61
2' Fifteenth 61 8' Viole de Gambe 68 2' Oktav 61
V Fourniture 305 8' Voix Celeste 68 1 1/3' Quint 61
III Scharf 183 8' Gedeckt 12 1' Sifflöte 61
8' Erzähler 68 IV Mixtur 244
GREAT (Secondary) 8' Erzähler Celeste 68 III Zimbel 183
8' Spitz Principal 68 8' Dulciana 68 8' Krummhorn 61
8' Bourdon 68 8' Unda Maris 68 Tremulant
8' Gemshorn 68 4' Geigenoctav 68
4' Spitzflöte 68 4' Rohrflöte 68 PEDAL
4' Quintaton 68 4' Dulcet 68 32' Dbl Open Diapason 32
2' Waldflöte 61 2' Flageolet 61 32' Contre Bourdon 32
II Sesquialtera 122 V Plein Jeu 305 32' Contra Gamba 32
III Kleinmixtur 183 III Cymbale 183 16' Open Diapason 12
16' Double Trumpet 68 16' Contra Fagotto 68 16' Principal 32
8' Trumpet 68 8' Trompette 68 16' Bourdon 12
4' Clarion 68 8' Fagotto 12 16' Violone GT
Tremulant 8' Oboe 68 16' Gamba 12
Sub 8' Vox Humana 68 16' Lieblich Gedeckt SW
Unison Off 4' Clairon 68 16' Quintaton CH
Super Tremulant 16' Dulciana SW
Sub 10 2/3' Gross Quint 32
CHOIR Unison Off 8' Octave 32
16' Quintaton 68 Super 8' Spitzflöte 32
8' Viola 68 8' Bourdon 12
8' Viola Celeste 68 SOLO 8' Gedeckt SW
8' Rohrgedeckt 68 8' Concert Flute 68 8' Quintaton CH
8' Flute Conique 68 8' Cello 68 5 1/3' Quint 12
8' Flute Celeste 68 8' Cello Celeste 68 4' Choralbass 32
4' Principal 68 4' Harmonic Flute 68 4' Blockflöte 32
4' Nachthorn 68 VII Grand Chorus 427 4' Lieblichflöte SW
2 2/3' Nazard 61 16' Contre Bombarde 68 2' Blockflöte 12
2' Spindleflöte 61 8' Bombarde 68 VII Grand Cornet 44
1 3/5' Tierce 61 8' French Horn 68 IV Mixture 128
1 1/3' Larigot 61 8' English Horn 68 32' Contre Bombarde 32
III Mixture 183 8' Flugel Horn 68 16' Posaune 32
16' Bass Clarinet 68 4' Clairon 68 16' Bombarde SO
8' Trumpet 68 Tremulant 16' Double Trumpet GT
8' Clarinet 68 Sub 16' Fagotto SW
4' Rohrschalmei 68 Unison Off 16' Clarinet CH
Tremulant Super 8' Posaune 12
Sub Chimes 25 8' Trumpet GT
Unison Off Cymbelstern 4 4' Posaune 12
Super 4' Clarion SO
Celesta 49 TUBA (floating) 4' Krummhorn PO
16' Tuba Magna tc Chimes SO
8' Tuba Magna 61
4' Tuba Magna 12
[Received from Jeff Scofield May 13, 2014]
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