Unknown - Organ Facade and Side View (Photograph by John Kaye Gottschall, August 2016/Database Manager)
Unknown - Keydesk and Facade (Photograph by John Kaye Gottschall, August 2016/Database Manager)
2005-06-17 - In the builder's apartment. (Information from <i>The Lutheran</i>, June 2005, p. 40.) -Database Manager
2007-09-30 - Updated through on-line information from John K. Gottschall. -- Case design includes a centerpiece incorporating the cross, star of David, and Hilal. Speaking pipes stud the cross. -- This instrument plays in both the normal(piano) right handed manner with low C to the left on three ranks, and in the left handed manner with low C to the right on three stops. The pedal of 19 notes is of French classical design, mirror image with a ravelment AAA below low CC which plays the pedal stops of one rank extended 16' to 8' and 4' in right footed manner and 8', 4', and 2' in left footed manner. -Database Manager
2007-10-01 - Updated through on-line information from John K. Gottschall. -- This instrument incorporates 84 different species of wood. The 8' Gedackt is of cherrywood which was harvested from trees in Tioga County, Pa, and logs from Fairmont Park, Philadelphia, hand and machine sawn into quartersawn lumber and air dried. Many of the pipes are built to the Golden Mean with the larger proportion being the front and back of the pipe. All pipes in the organ are wooden. -Database Manager
2016-09-03 - Updated through online information from John Kaye Gottschall. -Database Manager
2016-09-13 - Updated through online information from John Kaye Gottschall. -Database Manager
Article in the The American Organist, September 2003, p. 89. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Residence: John Gottschall John Gottschall, Opus 5, 2004 LEFT-HANDED MANUAL (C-c4; 61 notes) 8 Gedackt 4 Principal 2 Octave RIGHT-HANDED MANUAL (FF, GG, AA, BB, C-c3, 57 notes) 8 Flûte couvert (1-24) Flûte ouvert (25-53) 4 Flûte trapezoide couvert 2 Doubette Conique PEDAL (right- and left-footed) (AA, C-f; 19 notes) 8, 4, 2 Open Wood Principal (unified <i>avec ravalement</i> AA) tuning A=440 temperament after Valloti and Young [Received from Stephen Hall 2016-08-17.]
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