Better Pipe Organ Database

Austin Organ Co. Opus 1577 (1928)

Unity Synagogue / Mount Neboh Synagogue
130 West 79th St.
New York City: Manhattan, NY

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

Images

Unknown - Synagogue interior (Photograph from the NYC AGO Organ Project/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
41 stops
47 registers
5 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 (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination 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

2014-05-31 - Unity Synagogue facilities sold to Mount Neboh Synagogue in 1930; buildings sold to Crossroads Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1978, which used the building until 1981; the building was razed in 1984. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from <i>The New York City Organ Project</i>, NYC AGO website Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

    New York, New York
    Unity (Mount Neboh) Synagogue

    Austin   Op. 1577   1928   3/46
    _________________________________________________

    GREAT (*enclosed)             SWELL
 8' 1st Open Diapason 73      16' Bourdon          73
 8' 2nd Open Diapason 73       8' Diapason Phonon  73
 8' Violin Diapason   73 *     8' Open Diapason    73
 8' Double Flute      73 *     8' Stopped Diapason 73
 8' salicional        73 *     8' Viola da Gamba   73
 8' Gedeckt           73 *     8' Voix Celeste     61
 4' Octave            73       8' Aeoline          73
 4' Flute Harmonique  73 *     4' Principal        73
 2' Fifteenth         61 *     4' Flauto Traverso  73
IV  Mixture          244 *     2' Flautino         61
 8' Trumpet           73 *   III  Dolce Cornet    183
    Sub                        8' Cornopean        73
    Unison Off                 8' Oboe             73
    Super                      8' Vox Humana       61
    Harp              61          Tremulant
    Celesta                       Sub
                                  Unison Off
    ECHO                          Super
 8' Viole Aetheria    73
 8' Vox Angelica      61          CHOIR
 8' Gedeckt           73       8' Open Diapason    73
 4' Flute             73       8' Melodia          73
 8' Vox Humana        61       8' Dulciana         73
    Tremulant                  8' Unda Maris       61
                               4' Flute d'Amour    73
    PEDAL                      2' Harmonic Piccolo 61
32' Resultant Bass    --       8' Clarinet         73
16' Open Diapason     32       8' English Horn     73
16' Bourdon           32          Tremulant
16' Violone           32          Sub
16' Gedeckt           SW          Unison Off
 8' Flute             12          Super
 8' Dolce Flute       12          Harp             GT
 8' Violoncello       12          Celesta          GT
16' Trombone          32
 8' Tromba            12

   [Received online from Jeff Scofield May 31, 2014]

Websites

Mount Neboh Synagogue - (New York City Organ Project website) Specification (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)