Better Pipe Organ Database

Woodberry & Harris (1890 ca.)

Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church: Sanctuary; rear gallery
12 Emily Street
Valley Falls, NY

Images

2022-05-01 - Organ in raer gallery ( church is now closed, privately owned ) (Photograph by Peter O’Hearn/Peter O’Hearn)

2021 - Console (Photograph by real estate photo/Paul R. Marchesano)

2021 - Facade (Photograph from an archival source: real estate photo, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

2021 - Nave and organ in gallery (Photograph from an archival source: real estate photo, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

2021 - Organ in gallery (Photograph from an archival source: real estate photo, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

Consoles

Gallery

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
7 stops
8 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1978 -Database Manager

2021-02-28 - This church has undergone two mergers since 2009 and is no longer in use. As of February 28, 2021, it is being offered for sale with the organ in place. -William M. Worden

2021-03-28 - Church deconsecrated, offered for sale 2021. Photo shows case fairly intact but possibly empty of pipes. Roof had leaked over that end of the church. -Laurence Libin

2021-03-28 - From a Wikipedia List of suppressed parishes in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany. -- Merged with St. Monica's Parish of Johnsonville and St. John the Baptist Parish of Schaghticoke to form the Church of the Holy Trinity; the latter merged with St. Bonaventure Parish of Speigeltown to form the Transfiguration Parish in 2010. -Jim Stettner

Stoplist

Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: (Stoplist: BOC 116:5) Date not recorded

Valley Falls, New York
Our Lady of Good Counsel Roman Catholic Church

Woodberry & Harris, ca. 1890


GREAT:
8'  Op Diap               (61)
8'  Dulciana        [TC]  (49)
4'  Octave                (61)

SWELL (Expressive):
8'  Salicional      [TC]  (49)
8'  St'd Diap       [TC]  (49)
8'  St'd Diap Bass        (12)
4'  Flute Har'c           (61)

PEDAL:
16' Bourdon               (27)

COUPLERS:
Swell to Pedal
Great to Pedal

Swell to Great
Swell to Great 4' 

MISC. CONTROLS:
Bellows Signal

NOTES
17 Op Diap zinc basses in case; 24 cone-tuned trebles. Dulciana has 12 cone-
tuned trebles. Octave has 5 zinc basses and is cone-tuned from c1. The Sali-
cional has 12 cone-tuned trebles. The St'd Diap has 12 cone-tuned metal
trebles. The Flute Har'c is all of spotted metal and is harmonic for two
octaves above c1.