Better Pipe Organ Database

William J. Davis (1875)

West Bloomfield Congregational United Church of Christ
West Bloomfield, NY

OHS convention: 2018

Images

2018-07-26 - Pipe stenciling detail (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2018-07-26 - Organ case (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2017-02-04 - Sanctuary interior from rear gallery showing organ (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2019-05-08 - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

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
22 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 (Not Meeting AGO Standards)

Notes

2017-02-27 - Updated by Scot Huntington, who has heard or played the organ. <br>At present, this is the only-known organ of William J. Davis left extant. Not related to builder William Henry Davis, William J. was a Buffalo, New York builder, once an employee of Hilborne Roosevelt. -Database Manager

Stoplist

notes from Alan Laufman 1979 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

West Bloomfield, New York
West Bloomfield Congregational Church

W.J. Davis, Buffalo, N.Y.
Replacement stop labels by Delaware Organ Co.
North Tonawanda, NY

GREAT
Open Diapason     8'
Melodia           8'
Dulciana          8'
Octave            4'
Flute d'Amour     4'
Twelfth         2-2/3'
Principal         2'  (Fifteenth)

SWELL
Geigen Principal  8'
Stopped Diapason  8'
Viola             8'
Harmonic Flute    4'
Violina           4'
Piccolo           2'
Oboe              8'  (t.c.)
Tremulant

PEDAL
Bourdon           16'
Lieblich Gedeckt  16' (orig. Violoncello?)

Swell to Great
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal

Pedal Check
Bellows Signal

Compass:
Manuals: 58 notes, all stops go through except Oboe
Pedal: 27 notes

Projecting keydesk, Swell stacked over Great, round shanks, balanced swell pedal



 [Received from Scot Huntington 2013-05-07.]