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Geo. S. Hutchings (& Co.) (1896)

Christ Episcopal Church
7th & Francis
St. Joseph, MO

Images

1900-01-01 - Chancel and organ ca. 1900 (Archival photograph, courtesy of David Lewis/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
3 manuals
34 stops
4 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: 25 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)

Notes

2005-05-13 - From South Congregational Church, New Britain, Connecticut. Moved here by Geo. S. Hutchings in 1896. -Database Manager

2007-12-17 - We currently have no documentation to identify the person or firm who installed the organ here. Possibly Hutchings, who took the organ in trade when it was replaced in Connecticut. -Database Manager

2010-01-11 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The keydesk was attached to the right-side case, and to the side between the two cases. -Database Manager

2018-05-15 - Dedicated by Clarence H. Eddy in October 1896. Selections included J.S. Bach's Fantasy and Fugue in G minor, and Robert Schumann's Sketch in B minor. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist Source: from <i>The Tracker</i>, vol. 47, no. 1 (January 2003) Date not recorded

St. Joseph, Missouri
Christ Episcopal Church

Wm. A. Johnson   Opus 240   1867
Originally in South Congregational Church, New Britain, Connecticut
Moved by Geo. S. Hutchings  1896                   3 manuals, 32 stops, 39 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN                            SWELL ORGAN
     16' Double Diapason          58        16' Bourdon Bass             12
      8' Open Diapason            58        16' Bourdon Treble (TC)      46
      8' Gamba                    58         8' Open Diapason (TC)       46
      8' Melodia                  58         8' Stopped Diapason Bass    12
      8' Stopped Diapason         58         8' Stopped Diapason Treble  46
      4' Octave                   58         8' Salicional (TC)          46
      4' Concert Flute            58         8' Vox Celeste (TC)         46
  2 2/3' Twelfth                  58         4' Octave                   58
      2' Fifteenth                58         4' Flute Harmonique (TC)    46
         Mixture No. 1, 4 Rks.   232         2' Super Octave             58
         Mixture No. 2, 3 Rks.   174            Cornet, 3 Rks.          174
      8' Trumpet                  58         8' Trumpet                  58
                                             8' Oboe (TC)                46
         CHOIR ORGAN
      8' Open Diapason            58            PEDAL ORGAN
      8' Stopped Diapason         58        16' Double Diapason          25
      8' Dulciana                 58        16' Bourdon                  25
      4' Octave                   58         8' Violoncello              25
      4' Flauto Traverso          58
      8' Clarionette              58

         MECHANICAL MOVEMENTS
         Swell to Great
         Swell to Choir
         Choir to Great
         Great to Pedal
         Swell to Pedal
         Choir to Pedal
         Tremulant

         Bellows Signal
         Pedal Check

         Two Pneumatic Combination
            Movements to act on Couplings
         Ratchet Pedal to operate the Swell

         Electric blower added by Hutchings


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2018-05-15]

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