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Henry W. Knauff, Sr. (1869)

Consoles

Main

• Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
• Console position: Keydesk Attached
• 3 manuals
• 41 stops
• 4 divisions
• Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
• Stop action Type: Mechanical With Pneumatic Assists
• Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
• Manual compass: 58 notes
• Pedal compass: 25 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 1997 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Rebuilt by Henry A. Burke 1878, 3-27. Emergency repairs 1996 for OHS convention. Unused 1997. Damaged by plaster 1997. -Database Manager

2009-03-18 - Updated through online information from Paul Marchesano. -- The original mechanical combination machine is extant but disconnected from the stop action, apparently in 1878 with the addition of a Choir division and third manual. Damage from ceiling falling in is being worked on currently by church volunteers advised by amateurs. -Database Manager

Documents

• (1869-05-29) New Organ General description of the new organ -Paul R. Marchesano

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

• #40990* - Henry A. Burke (1887)

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