Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2005-06-16 - Identified through information in <i>Descriptive Catalogue of Superior Church Organs Manufactured by Geo. H. Ryder & Co.</i>, published in Boston, January, 1896. That list gives the location as Erie Street Methodist Episcopal; later information indicates this was First Methodist. -Database Manager
2008-12-03 - Updated through information from Unpublished Organ Research Notes of Dr. Stephen Schnurr; as edited by Joseph McCabe, 2008 -- Geo. H. Ryder of Reading, Massachusetts provided a new three-manual thirty-four rank, thirty stop organ in 1874, opus 24. Church records include the following on May 5, 1874, "on motion of Bro. Haines, Brothers Massey & Foljambe were authorized to execute a contract with Geo. M. Ryder for building the organ in accordance with his proposition as reported to this meeting, Price $5,800. Then on September 29, 1874, "a letter was read from Mr. Ryder in reference to coloring the pipes of the organ which on motion was referred to Mr. Ryder to exercise his own judgment in the premises. Barbara Owen, in The Organ in New England, notes that this may have been the builder-s first three-manual instrument. In reference to the organ, some sources refer to the congregation as the Erie Street Methodist Episcopal Church, no doubt in deference to the church-s location at that time. (There was, indeed a contemporary congregation by the name of Erie Street Church.) However, the organ was undoubtedly built for First Church, as identified in an article in the Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, journal, The Vox Humana. (This article gave the purchase price as $7,000.) The instrument was housed in a Gothic case measuring thirty feet in height, twenty in width, twelve in depth. The Reverend Edgar H. Boadway, in the Boston Organ Club Newsletter, March 1966, page 10, called this a magnum opus for the builder. The organ was rebuilt for the current church building when the congregation moved in 1905. -Database Manager
Typed stoplist from Joe McCabe Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Cleveland, Ohio
First United Methodist Church
Specification of 1874 George H. Ryder opus 24:
GREAT MANUAL
1. Open Diapason, 16 ft., metal & wood 58 pipes
(lower 12 notes Bourdon).
2. Grand Diapason, 8 ft., metal, 58 "
3. Viola da Gamba, 8 ft., metal, 58 "
4. Philomela, 8 ft., wood, 58 "
5. Hohl Flute, 4 ft., wood, 58 "
6. Octave, 4 ft., metal, 58 "
7. Twelfth, 2 2-3 ft., metal, 58 "
8. Fifteenth, 2 ft., metal 58 "
9. Mixture, 3 ranks, metal, 174 "
10. Trumpet, 8 ft., metal, 58 "
SWELL MANUAL
11. Bourdon, 16 ft., wood, 58 pipes
12. Open Diapason, 8 ft., metal, 58 "
13. Kalophon [sic], 8 ft., metal, 58 "
14. Stopped Diapason, 8 ft., wood, 58 "
15. Violin Principal, 4 ft., metal, 58 "
16. Wald Flute, 4 ft., wood, 58 "
17. Flageolet, metal, 58 "
18. Dolce Mixture, 3 ranks, 174 "
19. Oboe, 8 ft., metal, 58 "
20. Vox Humana, 8 ft. (TC), metal, 46 "
SOLO MANUAL
21. Geigen Principal, 8 ft., metal, 58 pipes
22. Dolce, 8 ft., metal, 58 "
23. Melodia, 8 ft., wood, 58 "
24. Fugara, 4 ft., metal, 58 "
25. Flute Dolce, 4 ft., metal, 58 "
26. Picolo [sic], 2 ft., metal, 58 "
27. Clarinet, 8 ft. (TC), metal, 46 "
PEDAL
28. Open Diapason, 16 ft., wood, 30 pipes
29. Bourdon, 16 ft., wood, 30 "
30. Violoncello, 8 ft., metal, 30 "
31. Quint, 10 2-3 ft., wood, 30 "
MECHANICALS
32. Swell to Great.
33. Swell to Solo.
34. Solo to Great.
35. Great to Pedal.
36. Solo to Pedal.
37. Swell to Pedal.
38. Tremulant.
39. Blower’s Signal.
PEDAL MOVEMENTS
1. Forte to Great Manual.
2. Piano to Great Manual.
3. Forte to Swell Manual.
4. Piano to Swell Manual.
5. Forte to Solo Manual.
6. Piano to Solo Manual.
7. Reversable [sic] Pedal, to operate Great to Pedal.
8. Balance Swell Pedal.
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