Westminster Presbyterian Church: Sanctuary
714 Washington Street
Utica, NY
Images
2023-09-27 - Builder's nameplate (Photograph by Otto Jensen/Otto Jensen)
2023-09-27 - Console (Photograph by Otto Jensen/Otto Jensen)
April 2022 - Sanctuary interior over Positiv division of organ (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page [unofficial], submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2019-12-15 - Organ in rear gallery (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page [unofficial], submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2019-12-15 - Sanctuary interior with organ in rear gallery (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page [unofficial], submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2023-09-27 - Console (Photograph by Otto Jensen/Otto Jensen)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- 3 manuals
- 35 stops
- 36 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)
- Has crescendo
- Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has combination toe pistons
- Has coupler thumb pistons
- Has coupler toe pistons
- Has tutti thumb pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2005-03-01 - Identified from company publications as edited and expanded in <i>The Hook Opus List 1829-1935</i>, ed. William T. Van Pelt (Organ Historical Society, 1991). -Database Manager
2007-12-18 - Updated through online information from Stephen Best. -- Organ was rebuilt by William Barlow in the late 1950s. Only some of the pipework remains. Organ is in poor condition but still used for all services. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Typed stoplist from Carl Schwartz Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Utica, New York
Westminster Presbyterian Church
1893 Hook & Hastings
Stoplist
Great
Open Diapason 16
Open Diapason 8
Viola di Gamba 8
Doppel Floete 8'
Flute Harmonique 4'
Octave 4'
Twelfth 2 2/3'
Fifteenth 2'
Mixture III
Trumpet 8'
Swell
Bourdon (Treble and Bass) 16'
Open Diapason 8'
Salicional 8'
Stopped Diapason 8'
Aeoline 8'
Flauto Traverso 4'
Violina 4'
Flautino 2'
Dolce Cornet III
Cornopean 8'
Oboe and Bassoon 8'
Vox Humana 8'
Solo Organ (separate expression)
Geigen Principal 8'
Dulciana 8'
Melodia 8'
Vox Celestis 8'
Flute d' Amour 4'
Fugara 4'
Piccolo Harmonique 2'
Clarinet 8'
Pedal
Open Diapason (large scale)16'
Bourdon (large scale) 16'
Violone 16'
Quint Flute 10 2/3'
Violoncello 8'
F, MF, P combinations to Great
F, MF, P combinations to Swell
Great to Pedal reversible
"Usual Couplers"
Water Motor
"The Organ" Vol 2 No 3 July 1893
I assume that the combinations were pneumatic but perhaps not, ditto the
coupler reversible Trem not mentioned - likely to Swell and Solo.
[From Carl Schwartz via PIPORG-L, February 2007]
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