2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1996. -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Here from Tottenville Evangelical Free Church in Jan. 1972. Reportedly moved to Tottenville in 1932 from Evangelical Free Church, Massapequa Park, and moved there in 1928 from unknown location, probably Whilte Plains, NY. Compass C-g3, 20 note pedal. [Notes from old Extant list: Attributed to Henry Erben. From Greenwood Baptist, Brooklyn; via Evangelical Free church, Tottenville, SI. Rebuilt Alfred Bensen 1932; rebuilt Obolecki & Son 1972.] -Database Manager
Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Staten Island Historical Society, Richmondtown Restoration,2nd Court House, Staten Island, NY Unidentified American builder, mid 19th century. Case oak-grain-painted over white; dummy facade pipes of wood, originally gold-leafed, and arranged in flats across front and sides. Recessed keykesk enclosed by sliding doors (replacements). Manual has ivory covered naturals with plain flat wood fronts and ebony accidentals. 4 turned and black-stained stops on each side, flat engraved faces. Stoplist: Left: Open Diapason (missing face; Duliana?) Stop'd Diapason Treble Stop'd Diapason Bass Right: Gamba (missing face; Fifteenth?) Principal Pedal Pulldown pedals, no independent pipes. Pedalboard has square notches to left and right, accessing a disconnected stop-changing device? A rectangular slot in right pedal jamb probably for a former swell pedal. Two narrow vertical slots over pedalboard for another device, perhaps for player to pump bellows. Open Diapason has zinc basses, painted and showing traces of gold pinstriping; lowest pipe inscribed "3rd Scale". Lowest accessible pipe in supposed fifteenth rank is tapered and inscribed "Flag" [Flageolet?]. Some pipes may have been replaced. Now electrically winded; old hand-pumped winding system in place, pump handle at rear of right side (handle broken). Modern plaque: "Donated by Tottenville Evangelical Free Church January 1972.
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