Better Pipe Organ Database

Hall Organ Co. (1920's)

Christ Episcopal Church
56 S. Cliff Street
Ansonia, CT

OHS convention: 1994

Images

1994-06-24 - Console (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

2012-04-10 - Underside of chest (Photograph by The Rev Richard e Beattie/Database Manager)

2012-04-10 - Pipework (Photograph by The Rev Richard e Beattie/Database Manager)

2012-04-10 - Chest (Photograph by The Rev Richard e Beattie/Database Manager)

2012-04-10 - Wind regulator (Photograph by The Rev Richard e Beattie/Database Manager)

2012-04-10 - Chest (Photograph by The Rev Richard e Beattie/Database Manager)

2012-04-10 - Pipework, chamber interior (Photograph by The Rev Richard e Beattie/Database Manager)

2013-08-14 - Facade (Photograph by The Rev Richard e Beattie/Database Manager)

2013-08-14 - Case (Photograph by The Rev Richard e Beattie/Database Manager)

2012-04-10 - Transept, Chancel, Apse, and pipe facades (Photograph by The Rev Richard E Beattie/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
3 manuals
39 stops
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons

Notes

2005-06-28 - Identified through information in <i>Classified List of Hall Organs</i>, published in 1929 by Hall Organ Co., West Haven, Connecticut. -Database Manager

2012-04-12 - Updated through online information from Joseph Dzeda. -- The organ originally was built by Hutchings with tubular-pneumatic action between the console and chamber. This must be one of the earliest Hutchings pitman chest instruments; a similar instrument for Christ Church in New Haven that was built one year previously had slider chests. In the 1920s the Hall Organ Company converted the action between the (new) Hall electro-pneumatic console and the chests to electro-pneumatic action by removing the lead tubing and by installing their typical Hall chest magnets where the lead tubes had entered the chest primaries. This work was carefully and professionally done; from the magnet boards upwards, however, the organ is entirely original with respect to its side-valve pitman windchests, pipework and chassis, including all of the Hutchings regulators. The Hall console was placed on the opposite side of the chancel to where the Hutchings console had been. The mechanical swell pedal linkage was replaced by a Hall 8-station swell engine when the Hall console was installed. The Hall company also installed a 25-note set of Deagan Class A chimes and a 49-note Mayland harp, both with Hall actions, located in the swell box. The Hall console received a new supply-house combination action in the 1940s, which is currently inoperable. -Database Manager

2015-08-13 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist Source: from Mark Waldorf Date not recorded

Ansonia, Connecticut
Christ Episcopal Church

Hall Organ Co.   1920s                   3 manuals, 39 stops, 39 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN                       SWELL ORGAN
     16' Diapason                      16' Bourdon
      8' Diapason                       8' Diapason
      8' Gemshorn                       8' Gedeckt
      8' Gamba                          8' Salicional
      8' Gross Flute                    8' Aeoline
      4' Octave                         8' Viole Celeste
      4' Flute                          4' Flute
  2 2/3' Twelfth                        4' Violina
      2' Fifteenth                      2' Flautino
         Mixture III                       Dolce Cornet III
      8' Trumpet                       16' Fagotto
         Chimes                         8' Cornopean
         Swell to Great 8'              8' Oboe
         Swell to Great 16'             8' Vox Humana
         Swell to Great 4'                 Tremolo
         Choir to Great 8'                 Swell To Choir 8'
         Choir to Great 16'                Swell To Choir 4'
         Choir to Great 4'                 Swell To Choir 16'
         Great To Great 4'                 Choir To Choir 4'
         Great To Great 16'                Choir To Choir 16'
                                           Swell Unison Off

         CHOIR ORGAN                       PEDAL ORGAN
     16' Gamba                         16' Diapason
      8' Geigen Principal              16' Bourdon 
      8' Melodia                       16' Violone 
      8' Dulciana                  10 2/3' Quint 
      4' Flute                          8' Flute
      2' Piccolo                        8' Gedeckt
      8' Clarinet                       8' Cello
      8' Harp                              Great to Pedal 8'
         Tremolo                           Swell to Pedal 8'
         Swell To Choir 8'                 Swell to Pedal 4'
         Swell To Choir 4'                 Choir to Pedal 8'
         Swell To Choir 16'                
         Choir To Choir 4'                 
         Choir To Choir 16'


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2017-09-27]

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