Better Pipe Organ Database

Joseph Harvey (1838)

St. John's United Evangelical Protestant Church
1835 Route 68
Zelienople
Rochester, PA

OHS convention: 2010

Images

Unknown - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by James Stark (2009)/Database Manager)

2009-09-19 - Organ (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
Console position: Keydesk Attached
1 manuals
4 stops
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Manual compass: 54 notes
Expression Type: No Enclosed Divisions
Combination action: None

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1970 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - COST $572 for first church building. Moved to 2nd building in 1859, and to present building in 1928. Rebuilt by W. A. Miller. Restored c. 1971 by Phillip Johnson. Manual compass 54 notes. No pedals. -Database Manager

2009-04-20 - Updated through online information from Laurence Libin. -Database Manager

2009-04-22 - Updated through online information from James M. Stark. -Database Manager

2024-09-05 - In 1971, local organ technicians Phillip Johnson and Virgil Johnson (no relation) restored the organ* with no tonal changes. However, the original hand pumped winding system was replaced, and the original pitch was raised to A440. From the metal taken from the Diapason it appears that the original pitch was approximately A425, which would have been consistent with English practice in the early 19th century. * Diapason, vol. 62, no. 10 (Sept. 1971), p. 7 -James Stark

Stoplist

Stoplist provided by James Stark Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

             Zelienople, PA
             St. John's "Burry's" Evangelical Protestant Church
 
             1838 Joseph Harvey
           
 
             Manual (54 notes)

 
            [8’] Open Diapason (tenor G)

            Lead, 35 pipes. Approximately 50 scale.

 
            [8’] Stpd. Diapason Bass (tenor F#)

            Wood (pine?), walnut caps (screwed) and walnut stopper handles,

            Octagonal feet, 19 pipes

 
            [8’] Stpd. Diapason Treble (tenor G)

            Wood (pine?), walnut caps (screwed to MF#, glued thereafter) and walnut stopper handles,

            Octagonal feet, 35 pipes

 
            [4’] Principal

            Lead, 54 pipes (5 replacements) lightly nicked, bottom octave bridged;

            CC marked: “Pittsburgh July 31, 1837”. Approximately 62 scale.

 
            [2’] Fifteenth

            Lead, 54 pipes (4 replacements). Approximately 75+ scale.

 
            Keydesk:  Mahogany

 
            Keyboard:

                        Ivory naturals

                        Ebony sharps tapering sharply to narrow tops

                        Wood fronts

                        Length of naturals 5 ¼”

                        Octave span 6 ½”

 
            Mechanicals:  Hitchdown pedal to operate a separate slider to remove Principal and      Fifteenth 
            from the registration.

 
            Pitch:  A440 @70 degrees F (A425 original from physical evidence)

 
            Wind Pressure: 1 ½”

 
            Documentation (2009): John Cawkins, Laurence Libin, James Stark, Randall Wagner