Better Pipe Organ Database

J.G. Pfeffer & Son (1874)

St. Vincent de Paul Roman Catholic Church
9th and Park Streets
St. Louis, MO

OHS convention: 1979

Note: Not playable. (in this location)

Images

1979 - Organ case in rear gallery (Photograph from an archival source: 1979 OHS Handbook, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Detached, Reversed Keydesk (Mechanical Action)
2 manuals
33 stops
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 54 notes
Pedal compass: 25 notes
Has combination toe pistons

Notes

2006-06-23 - Updated through online information from James Munden. -Database Manager

2014-09-23 - Updated through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -- According to John Speller's website, 2014-09-22, the organ is not currently playable, and was first used for Pfeffer's daughter's wedding in 1874. Also, "the fine Greek Revival case may or may not have been retained from the previous 1855 Pilcher organ" and "the organ retains its original single-rise reservoir with three feeders." -Database Manager

2022-02-05 - At [this YouTube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htj2MTONXB0), Martin Ott and Horst Buchholz go through the organ with church leadership and discuss the wear, as well as the desire to restore the organ. -J. A. Hefner

Stoplist

Typed stoplist (Source: spellerweb.net, 2014-09-22) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

      St. Vincent de Paul Roman Catholic Church
      St. Louis, Missouri
      J.G. Pfeffer, 1874
      OHS ID: 1309
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      GREAT                 SWELL (enclosed)             PEDAL 
   16 Open Diapason [1]  16 Bourdon Discant TC  16 Principal Bass [10]
    8 Open Diapason [2]  16 Bourdon Bass [5]    16 Sub Bass [11]
    8 Gamba               8 Geigen-Principal     8 Violoncello
    8 Dulciana TC         8 Salicional           4 Floeten-Bass
    8 Gedeckt             8 Violone TC          16 Posaune (wood)
    8 Melodia             8 Floten-Bass [5]
    4 Octave              8 Floete TC [6]          COUPLERS
    4 Floete [3]          4 Geigen Principal       Manual Coppel
    2 Octav               4 Rohrfloete [7]         Pedal-Coppel II Man.
2-2/3 Mixtur IV [4]       2 Flageolet [8]          Pedal-Coppel I Man.
    8 Trompete            2 Mixtur III
                          8 Hautboe TC             COMPOSITION PEDALS
                          8 Bassoon (12 notes)     Great Organ Forte
                          8 Clarinet TC            Great Organ Piano
      NOTES 
   1. Nos. 1-5 monkey quints (stopped unison pipes and and open quint 
      pipes to create resultant pitch); nos. 6-22 in facade.
   2. Nos. 1-10 in facade.
   3. Open wood construction with inverted mouths.
   4. Great Mixture composition: C 12-15-19-33; c1 5-8-12-15.
   5. Nos. 1-12, unenclosed.
   6. Harmonic, wood, no nodal holes.
   7. Stopped wood bass; metal chimney flute treble.
   8. Spitzflote pipe construction and shape.
   9. Swell Mixture composition: C15-19-22; c1 8-12-15.
  10. Open wood.
  11. Stopped wood.
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[Received online from T. Daniel Hancock, 2014-09-22]

Websites

John Speller's Web Page - Instruments Index - (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)