Better Pipe Organ Database

John Dower and Company (2002)

Good Shepherd Episcopal Church
108 E. Liberty Street
York, SC

Images

Unknown - Pipe Facade (Photograph by Alex Wilson (2016)/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
14 stops
2 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: None
Has hitchdown couplers

Notes

2005-06-24 - Identified through online information from Steven Aycock. -- Rebuilt and enlarged. -Database Manager

2010-03-15 - Updated through online information from Steven Aycock. -- Trumpet changed from c 13 up now-louder and brighter- source unknown, Christmas, 2008 1-12 remain of the older. -Database Manager

2017-07-16 - Updated by Steven Aycock, who has heard or played the organ. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from Steven Aycock. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

York, South Carolina
The Church of the Good Shepherd, Episcopal

George Stevens, Circa 1874.  rebuilt 1991, John Hastings Dower.  enlarged 2002, John Dower


Great (lower keyboard)


 8        Open Diapason (1874, 1909 facade 1-5 open wood)
 8        Stopped Diapason  (1874)
 4        Octave   (1874)
 4        Open Flute (new pipework 1991)
 2 2/3    Twelfth  (1874)
 2        Fifteenth  (1874)
 1 3/5    Seventeenth  (new 1991)
          Cymbelstern (2002)

Swell    (upper keyboard)


 8        Gemshorn  (1991)
 4        Chimney Flute (1991)
 2        Principal  (1991)
 1 1/3    Quint    (1991)
16        Bassoon    1/2 length    ext. Oboe-(2002)
 8        Trumpet   harmonic at c4-from 20's Kilgen (2002) 

 8        Oboe   19th Century-source unknown  



Pedal
16     Bourdon  ( from Hook & Hastings, Myers Park Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, NC)
16     Bassoon   (Swell)

swell to great    
great to pedal   
swell to pedal

Websites

The Church of the Good Shepherd (Episcopal) - York, SC - Photograph, description, stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#63436 - John Dower and Company (1991)