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A. David Moore Co., Organbuilders (1999)

Images

2005-05-23 - Organ case in rear gallery (Photograph by Mark Brombaugh/Database Manager)

2005-05-23 - Case front and keydesk in profile (Photograph by Mark Brombaugh/Database Manager)

2005-05-24 - New A. David Moore keydesk (Photograph by Mark Brombaugh/Database Manager)

2001-05-16 - Added 8' Clarabella (Photograph by Mark Brombaugh/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

• Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
• Console position: Keydesk Attached
• 3 manuals
• 42 stops
• 4 divisions
• Key action Type: Mechanical (Suspended Tracker)
• Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
• Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
• Combination action: Computerized/Digital
• Has combination thumb pistons
• Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

2005-06-08 - Identified through on-line information from Mark Brombaugh. -- Organ originally by Hermann Hillebrand & Sons (Hanover, Germany), 1967. Rebuilt by Kinzey-Angerstein, 1979. Further work by Foley-Baker, 1985-89. Work by A. David Moore in 1999 included: New console and suspended key action, New 64-level solid-state combination action, New swell box with swell chest raised 3 feet from original height, All reed stops replaced:,6 new reed stops except Swell Oboe, Swell Oboe from Hook Op. 582 (1871), restored with new hammered lead resonators, 8 all new flue stops, 2 flue stops using 19th century pipes (PD Bourdon 8 & SW Celeste 8), GT Clarabella copied from Hook Opus 171, 254 & 283; Hook stopped bass, C-e(opus unknown), SW Viola from Aeolian-Skinner 178-A, with new languids and de-slotted, new wood bass, C-A#. -Database Manager

2007-10-19 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- 5-sectional facade with 29 pipes arranged: 5-4-11-4-5. Brustwerk behind folding doors. -Database Manager

Stoplist

From church website Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

New Haven, Connecticut
United Church on the Green

Hermann Hildebrand, 1967
A. David Moore, 1999 - Tonal additions & changes, action revision, new keydesk

HAUPTWERK
  16'    Bourdon
  8'     Principal
  8'     Clarabella
  8'     Spitzgambe
  4'     Octave
  4'     Nachthorn
  2-2/3' Quinte
  2'     Octave
  1-3/5' Terz
  IV-V   Mixtur
  16'    Dulcian
  8'     Trompete

SWELL (Expressive)
  8'     Gedackt
  8'     Viola
  8'     Celeste
  4'     Principal
  4'     Rohrflöte
  2-2/3' Nasat
  2'     Octave
  2'     Waldflöte
  1-3/5' Terz
  IV     Scharf
  8'     Oboe
         Tremulant

BRUSTWERK:
  8'     Holzgedackt
  4'     Spillflöte
  2'     Principal
  1-1/3' Quinte
  II     Sesquialtera
  II     Zimbel
  8'     Crumhorn
         Tremulant
         Zimbelstern

PEDAL:
  16'    Principal
  16'    Subbass
  8'     Octave
  8'     Bourdon
  4'     Octave
  4'     Gedackt
  2'     Flöte
  1'     Nachthorn
  IV     Mixtur
  16'    Posaune
  8'     Trompete
  4'     Trompete

 [Received from Connor Annable 2011-10-29.]

Websites

• United Church on the Green, UCC - Music - Memorial Pipe Organ - Stoplist, Photograph, link to rededication brochure copy (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)
• OrgeldatabaseNL - Church on the Green, New Haven - History, photographs, stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

• #1029 - Hermann Hillebrand (1967)

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