Better Pipe Organ Database

Mann & Trupiano (1982)

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Pierpont Morgan Wing - Equestrian Gallery
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York City: Manhattan, NY

Images

Unknown - Organ Case and Console (Vintage Postcard, courtesy of T. Bradford Willis, DDS (1980s)/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Removable Panel in Front of Keyboards
Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
2 manuals
14 stops
17 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 17 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Trigger/Hitch-Down Expression
Combination action: None

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1999 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Accession No. 1982.59. From Sacred Heart, Plains, PA, in 1982, via OCH. Restored by Mann & Trupiano 1982 for the Metropolitan. -Database Manager

2006-11-06 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Andre Mertens Galleries for Musical Intruments, New York City
1830 Thomas Appleton, Boston, 
(Stoplist: Paul Opel, PIPORG-L June 1998)

Compass;  manuals GG, AA-f''', 58 notes;  pedal originally GG, AA- c0 17 notes, pull-down only;  changed to C-d' 27 notes with independent Sub Base by Emmons Howard.

GREAT (I)
8' Op. Diapason                9 op wd, 23 facade
8' St. Diap. Bass              GG-f#0, pine/cedar
8' St. Diapason                g0; 5 wd, rest metal/chimneyed
8' Dulciana                    g0
4' Principal                   GG, AA facade
4' Flute                       16 pine/cedar, rest metal/chimneyed
2 2/3' Twelfth
2' Fifteenth
1 3/5' Sesquialtera III
8' Bass Trumpet                GG-f#0
8' Treble Trumpet              g0; inverted duckbill shallots


SWELL (II, expressive from g0)
8' Op. Diapason                g0
8' St. Diap. Bass              GG-f#0
8' St. Diapason                g0; 5 wd, rest met/chim
4' Principal                   g0
8' Hautboy                     g0

PEDAL
16' Sub Base                    st wood added by Hamill 1883 C-d'
27 notes (non original) originally GG (no GG#) - c, 17 notes,
pull-down.

(NB:  all Great stops labeled "Gr." after stop name, all Swell stops "Sw.")

Couple Pedal & Sw. Keys
Couple Pedal and Gr. Keys
Couple Sw. & Gr.

pitch a' = 435.7 Hz
wind pressure 2.25"
all metal pipes common metal;  stopped metals have soldered caps

        Sesquialtera III composition:

GG              1 3/5  1 1/3  1
c'    2 2/3  2  1 3/5
d'''  2 2/3  2

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