2017-03-20 - Organ Case (Photograph by Eric Fahner/Database Manager)
2017-03-20 - Church Interior (Photograph by Eric Fahner/Database Manager)
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1994. -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Believed to have come from New Orleans. Restorative repairs 1994 by James Konzelman. -Database Manager
2007-03-24 - Updated through online information from Timothy P. Keyes. -- In 1988 organ was playable but in bad repair. Ronald Thayer and Tim Keyes rebuilt the pedal board to original specifications. Repaired cracked pipes and all broken mechanisms, restoring to original specifications. In 1992 organ was in perfect playing condition. Through the 1990s the organ was again not maintained properly and it again fell into disrepair. Maintenance began again on the organ in 2004. In 2004 Peragallo Organ Builders replaced the leather gusseted organ bellows because the orginal bellows had deteriorated to the point that they would not hold pressure. The organ in 2007 is in wonderful working condition. -Database Manager
2017-05-03 - Updated by Eric Fahner, who has heard or played the organ.<br> As of 2016, the organ has been junked. The casework was reduced by two thirds and what was left was restored. Painted pipes not to original scheme. The organ has been replaced by a three manual Allen electronic, and speakers placed behind the pipes. All traces of the attached recessed console are gone. -Database Manager
Typed stoplist (Source: Ogasapian, 1977) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
St. Joseph Church
Plainfield, New Jersey
Henry Erben, 1858
OHS ID: 2198
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GREAT SWELL
8 Open Diapason 8 Stop'd Diapason Bass (C-e)
8 Stop'd Diapason Bass (C-B) 8 Stop'd Diapason (f-g3)
8 Clarabella (c-g3) 8 Open Diapason (f-g3)
8 Gamba (c-g3, alt?) 4 Principal Bass (C-e)
4 Principal 4 Principal (f-g3)
2-2/3 Twelfth 4 Flute (f-g3)
2 Fifteenth 8 Hautboy
8 Trumpet Tremulant
PEDAL COUPLERS
16 Double Open Diapason S(Bass)- P, G-P, S-G
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