Better Pipe Organ Database

A. David Moore Co., Organbuilders (1988ca.)

U.S. Soldiers' & Airmen's Home / Armed Forces Retirement Home
Washington, DC

Images

2010-11-15 - Chancel and Organ Case (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

2010-11-15 - Organ Case and Keydesk (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

2010-11-15 - Keydesk (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
2 manuals
22 stops
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 18 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Trigger/Hitch-Down Expression
Combination action: None

Notes

2004-10-30 - The original builder was Stevens & Jewett (c. 1855). -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1988 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Relocated through OCH from Universalist Church, Mechanics Falls, ME via C. R. Tobie residence, Hebron, ME. In Gallery. Some replacement pipes from 1863 Hook, Op. 331. -Database Manager

2011-02-04 - updated through information in <em>The Tracker</em>, Vol. 33, No. 2, courtesy of Bill Van Pelt: -- "Some replacement pipes from Hook op. 331 of 1863 include the bass of the Great Twelfth, some treble pipes of the Clarabell and the Great 4' Flute (a metal chimney flute with soldered caps) and 2' Fifteenth stops. The Moore shop fabricated the missing tierce rank of the Great Sesquialter III and much of the Great Trumpet." -Database Manager

2015-07-24 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

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