Better Pipe Organ Database

George Jardine & Son (1895)

Free Church of St. John (Episcopal): Sanctuary
3076 Emerald Street
Philadelphia, PA

OHS convention: 1996

Images

2014-01-15 - Pipe Facades and Keydesk (Photograph by Bill Miller/Database Manager)

2014-01-15 - Detail of Organ Case (Photograph by Bill Miller/Database Manager)

2014-01-15 - Pipe Facades (Photograph by Bill Miller/Database Manager)

2014-01-15 - Pipe Facade (Photograph by Bill Miller/Database Manager)

2014-01-15 - Left Drawknobs (Photograph by Bill Miller/Database Manager)

2014-01-15 - Right Drawknobs (Photograph by Bill Miller/Database Manager)

2014-01-15 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by Bill Miller/Database Manager)

2014-01-15 - Pedalboard, Toe Levers, and Swell Pedal (Photograph by Bill Miller/Database Manager)

2014-01-15 - Pedalboard and Toe Levers (Photograph by Bill Miller/Database Manager)

2014-01-15 - Pipework (Photograph by Bill Miller/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
16 stops
15 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2004-10-30 - Form 12/91 - stop list. -Database Manager

2014-01-20 - An original installation. Identified by William Miller, based on personal knowledge of the organ. -- -Database Manager

2014-01-20 - Updated through online information from William Miller. -Database Manager

2014-01-30 - Updated through online information from BillI Miller. -- This is, according to OHS records, the only Jardine organ in PA that is unaltered, still in its original location, and still in use. -Database Manager

2014-01-30 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

2014-03-13 - Updated through online information from Bill Miller. -- The Pedal "16' Open Diapason", 27 pipes, is as listed on the drawknob. The builder's proposal listed it instead as "16' Bourdon", 27 pipes. There are in fact 27 large-scale wooden stopped flute, 1/2L pipes in the back of the chamber. It is unknown why the pedal drawknob states "16' Open Diapason" but that is not correct. -Database Manager

2022-10-20 - The Great Principal 4' is stamped "Alf. Peterson," and the Harmonic Flute 4' is marked "A Schopp." Notes 1-12 of the Swell Bourdon 16' are unenclosed; the remainder of the set is of stopped wood with some capped metal trebles; the Stop'd Diapason 8' has two octaves of stopped wood pipes, with the rest being a metal chimney flute; the bass of the Aeoline 8' is of capped metal. -- *1996 OHS Handbook* -Paul R. Marchesano

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from photographs submitted by Bill Miller 2014-01-15 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
St. John's Episcopal

GEORGE JARDINE & SON, Opus ___, ca. 1890 - Original Specifications


GREAT                                        COUPLERS (Mech. Finger Pistons)
   8'  Open Diapason                58          Swell to Pedal                On/Off
   8'  Gamba                        58          Great to Pedal                On/Off
   8'  Melodia                      58
   8'  Dulciana                     58          Swell to Great                On/Off
   4'  Principal                    58
   4'  Flute Harmonic               58
   8'  Trumpet                      58       FOOT LEVERS (Labeled; l - r)
                                                Swell Piano -

SWELL (Expressive)                              Swell Forte -
   16' Bourdon Treble               12
   16' Bourdon Bass                 46          Great Piano -
   8'  Open Diapason                58
   8'  Stopped Diapason             58          Great Forte -
   8'  Aeoline                      58
   4'  Violino   [sic]              58
   2'  Flageolet                    58       PEDAL MOVEMENTS
   8'  Oboe and Bassoon             58          Swell Expression              (bal.)
       Tremulant  


PEDAL
   16' Open Diapason                27

       Bellows Signal


ACTION: Mech. Key & Stop     VOICES: 15     STOPS: 16     RANKS: 15     PIPES: 839


NOTES
The organ is installed in a chamber in the front, right corner of the nave/sanctuary.
The main façade is on the nave side and contains 15 gold-painted pipes in a pipe fence.
These pipes have a raised metal band around the top. The sanctuary facades consist of
two sets of 9 dummy façade pipes with the tallest pipe in the middle. These façades
cover two Gothics arches into the pipe chamber.

Sources: OHS Database photographs

 [Received from James R. Stettner 2014-01-22.]

Websites

Audio Recording from Playing & Preserving - Recorded on 6/29/19. (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)