Better Pipe Organ Database

N. P. Kraig (1898)

Towanda Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
305 2nd Street
Towanda, PA

Images

2016-03-30 - Sanctuary Interior, Chancel, and Organ Case (Photograph by Sandra L. Schmidt/Database Manager)

2016-03-30 - Keydesk (Photograph by Sandra L. Schmidt/Database Manager)

2016-03-30 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by Sandra L. Schmidt/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
11 stops
11 registers
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: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: None

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1986. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Historic Organs Recital 16 Nov 1968. [Listed w. recital as 2-11 and on old Extant list as 2-19.] Playable in 1984. -Database Manager

2018-06-12 - Updated by Scot Huntington, listing conversations with this person as the source of the information: David Lenington.<br> In June 2018, information is being circulated the building is for sale, the organ needs to be removed and is in danger. This is the only extant instrument of N.P. Kraig.<br>Kraig emigrated from Denmark to work for his uncle, Mathias. P. Moller in Hagerstown, where he worked for 3 years. He subsequently moved to New York City to work with Jardine, then with Odell, and then with the Owing Company. He established his own shop in Binghamton in 1896, and is listed in the local directories as an organbuilder up until the early 1940s. -Database Manager

2010-08-31 - Updated through on-line information from Paul Shapiro. -- This organ has not been played for several years. It needs to be tuned. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: A. Richard Strauss Date not recorded

Towanda, Pennsylvania
Universalist Unitarian Church

N. P. Kraig, 1898


    GREAT
8'  Open Diapason
8’  Melodia
8'  Unison Bass
4’  Principal


    SWELL (Expressive)
8'  Dulciana
8’  Viol D’Gamba
8’  St.p Diap. Bass		
8’  St.p Diap. Treble
4’  Flute Harmonique
2’  Piccolo
    Tremolo


    PEDAL
16' Bourdon


    COUPLERS
Swell to Pedal
Great to Pedal

Swell to Great
Sw. to Gr. Octave


    PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell Expression             (bal.)


    NOTES
Great Open Diapason is full compass.
Melodia has treble and bass knobs.


[Received from David Lenington-Stoplist provided to me by A. Richard Strauss. 2016-04-02.]