Better Pipe Organ Database

Reuben Midmer & Son (1890)

Millis Memorial Baptist / Grace Baptist
612 Fourth Street
North Troy, NY

OHS convention: 1967

Images

1997 - Organ in front alcove (Photograph from an archival source: The Tracker, 41:3 (1997) 22, 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
23 stops
18 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: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1997 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Reservoir releathered by Carey Organ Co. c. 1992. -Database Manager

2013-08-24 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ is presently (2013-08-21) listed on Albany, NY Craigslist in the "Musical Instruments" section as being for sale, but with no price given. The building itself was purchased by a Rev. Koletas ca. 1997 and the name changed to Grace Baptist. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist copied from photos taken 2013-08-21; updated with information from 1967 OHS Handbook June 1967

North Troy, New York
Millis Memorial Baptist / Grace Baptist

REUBEN MIDMER & SON, 1890 - Original Specifications


    GREAT
Gr. 8'      Open Diapason          58
Gr. 8'      Melodia                46
Gr. 8'      Stopd Diap. Bass       17
Gr. 8'      Dulciana         (TF)  41
Gr. 8'      Dulciana Bass          17
Gr. 8'      Melodia          (TF)  41
Gr. 8       Stop'd Diapason Bass   17
Gr. 4'      Octave                 46
Gr. 4'      Flute Traverso         58
Gr. 2⅔'     Twelfth                58
Gr. 2'      Fifteenth              58
Gr. 8'      Trumpet          (TF)  41
Gr. 8'      Trumpet Bass           17


    SWELL (Expressive)
Sw. 16'     Bourdon          (TF)  41
Sw. 16'     Bourdon Bass           17
Sw. 8'      Geigen Principal (TC)  46
Sw. 8'      Stop'd Diapason  (TF)  41
Sw. 8'      Salicional             58
Sw. 4'      Flute Harmonic         58
Sw. 4'      Violina                58
Sw. 2'      Flageolet              58
Sw. 2 Ranks Cornet     [12-15]    116
Sw. 8'      Oboe             (TF)  41
Sw. 8'      Bassoon Bass           17
            Swell Tremulant


     PEDAL
Ped. 16'    Double Open Diap.      27


     COUPLERS
Swell to Pedal    [drawknob]      [8]
Great to Pedal    [drawknob]      [8]

Swell to Great  [piston; On/Off]  [8]


     FOOT LEVERS
Great Piano -

Great Forte -

Swell Piano -

Swell Forte -


     PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell Expression               (bal.)


     MISC. CONTROLS
Bellows Signal


ACTION: Mech. Key & Stop

VOICES: 18

STOPS: 23

RANKS: 19

PIPES: 1,093

Sources: OHS Database account; photos by and email correspondence
         with parishioner Ralph Renna in August, 2013.


[Received from James R. Stettner 2013-08-28.]
[Updated from 1967 OHS Handbook, Paul R. Marchesano 2021-07-16]