Better Pipe Organ Database

J.G. Pfeffer & Son (1890)

St. Joseph Roman Catholic Shrine
1220 N. 11th Street at Biddle Street
St. Louis, MO

OHS convention: 1979

Images

1979 - Organ 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: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
27 stops
30 registers
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Has hitchdown couplers

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1995. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Case may be 1860s. Compass 58/27. -Database Manager

2012-01-02 - Updated through online information from Michael Bavlsik. -Database Manager

2012-01-03 - Updated through online information from Michael Bavlsik. -- Current state is: Restored to original condition by Martin Ott, organbuilder 2003. It is a museum quality restoration. The organ is completely unaltered from its 1890 state. -Database Manager

2025-04-11 - Reservoir was releathered by Christopher Soer Pipe Organs LLC in 2021. At that time, the Shrine did not elect to have the feeder bellows releathered and were using an external blower to power the organ. Blower was replaced with a new static reservoir added outside the organ case in 2024. No tonal changes were made to the instrument. -Joseph Eckelkamp

Stoplist

Specification from Martin Ott Pipe Organ Company web site Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

St. Louis, Missouri
St. Joseph Roman Catholic Shrine

J. G. Pfeffer & Son   1890   2 manuals, 27 stops, 32 ranks
Restored by Martin Ott Pipe Organ Co.  Opus 95   2000-2002
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                   GREAT
               16' Principal             58
                8' Principal             58
                8' Gamba                 58
                8' Melodia               58
                8' Gedakt                58
                4' Octave                58
                4' Flöte d'Amor          58
                3' Quinte                58
                2' Waldflöte             58
                   Mixture IV           232
                8' Trompete              58

                   SCHWELLWERK
               16' Bourdon Bass          12
               16' Bourdon Discant (tc)  46
                8' Geigen Principal      58
                8' Salicional            58
                8' Lieblich Gedakt       58
                4' Principal             58
                4' Harmonic Flöt         58
                2' Flautino              58
                   Cornet III           174
                8' Bassoon (bass)        12
                8' Oboe (tc)             46
                8' Clarinett (tc)        46
                   Tremolo

                   PEDAL
               16' Principal Bass        27
               16' Sub Bass              27
                8' Octav Bass            27
                8' Violoncello           27
                4' Flötenbass            27
               16' Posaune               27

                   COUPLERS
                   SW - GT
                   GT - PED
                   SW - PED

                   COMBINATIONS
                   2 pistons to Schwellwerk
                     (pneumatic)
                   2 toe pedals to Great
                     (mechanical)
                   Swell Pedal


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2016-06-22]