Better Pipe Organ Database

A. B. Felgemaker Co. Opus 1067 (1910)

St. Agnes Roman Catholic Cathedral
Springfield, MO

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Images

Unknown - Rear Gallery and Façade (Photograph by Daniel Hancock/Database Manager)

Unknown - Key Desk (Photograph by Daniel Hancock/Database Manager)

Unknown - Key Desk Left Jamb (Photograph by Daniel Hancock/Database Manager)

Unknown - Key Desk Right Jamb (Photograph by Daniel Hancock/Database Manager)

Unknown - Great 8' Dulciana, 8' Melodia, 4' Octave, 4' Flute d'Amour (Photograph by Daniel Hancock/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
3 divisions
Key action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Vacuum)
Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Has coupler toe pistons
Has hitchdown couplers

Notes

2005-04-08 - Removed by Bradley Rule; organ for sale; to be replaced by new Casavant organ. -Database Manager

2005-09-28 - On-line update from Timothy D. Hancock -- I am organist at St. Agnes, and removed the organ from its original location. This organ was not removed by Bradley Rule, and is not for sale. It is currently in my possession, in storage. -Database Manager

2012-04-11 - Updated through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -- After being placed in storage in 2004, the organ was sold in 2009 to the Christ Community Church of Zion, Illinois (formerly the Christian Catholic Church) for installation in the rear gallery of the present sanctuary. The Christ Community Church formerly had a large four-manual Felgemaker (the largest built by that firm) which burned in the 1930's and they wanted to acquire this instrument as a commemorative piece, to serve alongside the 1920's Welte organ in the Chancel. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: "Osiris" style description with stoplist Date not recorded

Springfield, Missouri
St. Agnes Roman Catholic Cathedral

A. B. Felgemaker, Opus 1067, 1910  


    I GREAT (Unenclosed; C-c4; 61)             
8   Open Diapason           61 pipes   Metal; open
8   Melodia                 61 pipes   Wood; bass octave stopped, rest open
8   Dulciana                61 pipes   Metal; open
4   Octave                  61 pipes   Metal; open
4   Flute d'Amour           61 pipes   Wood; stopped;


    II SWELL (Expressive; C-c4; 61)
8   Violin Diapason         61 pipes   Metal; open
8   Stopped Diapason        61 pipes   Wood; stopped
8   Salicional              61 pipes   Metal; open
4   Aeoline                 61 pipes   Metal; open
8   Oboe                    61 pipes   Metal; open; pipes stamped "Oboe Gamba"
    Tremulant   


   PEDAL (C-f; 30 notes)     
16 Bourdon                  30 pipes   Wood; stopped


   COUPLERS
Swell to Pedal                  8      
Great to Pedal                  8

Swell to Great               16,8,4     
   

   FOOT TRUNDLES
Swell Piano -

Swell Forte -
    
Great to Pedal                (rev)

Great Piano - 

Great Forte -


   PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell Expression (mech.)     (bal.)
Crescendo                    (bal.)


NOTES
The organ was designed in 1910 for placement in the choir loft
of the then new St. Agnes Cathedral.  Case detailing aligned
with windows, and placement of doors in the loft.  The facade,
which contains the bass pipes of the Open Diapason, Dulciana,
and Octave, was arranged to frame a small rose window at the
top of the rear wall of the choir loft.  The case is quarter-
sawn oak, and the facade pipes were originally stenciled in
cream, gold, blue-green, and pink. Currently, they are painted
gold. The keydesk is attached, and the playing and stop action
is tubular-pneumatic.

Materials: Quarter-sawn stained oak; rose-wood draw knobs with ivorine inserts 
Console type: Integral 
Stop controls: Draw knob 
Pedals type: Flat, parallel 
Action 
    Key: Tubular pneumatic 
    Stop: Tubular pneumatic; mechanical combination action 
Temperament:  
Pitch (a', Hz):  
No. stops: 11 
No. ranks: 11 
No. pipes: 640 
Wind supply 
    Power: Electric blower, single reservoir 
    Pressures (mm):  
  
History: 2004: Removed to make way for new Casavant organ; placed in storage. 


[Timothy Daniel Hancock -- May 30, 2005]

Websites

Pipe Organ - St. Agnes Cathedral - Page discussing the two pipe organs - the [relocated] Felgemaker and current Casavant (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)