Better Pipe Organ Database

Hutchings Organ Co. Opus 1680 (1912)

Church of the Messiah/Community Church of New York
Fourth (Park) Avenue at 34th Street
New York City: Manhattan, NY

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Images

1912 - Console (Photograph by NYC AGO NYC Organ Project, Steve Lawson, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
4 manuals
48 stops
56 registers
6 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2006-05-16 - In 1912, Hutchings Organ Co. was awarded a $20,000 contract to replace the 1868 Odell organ with an entirely new organ having four manuals. -Database Manager

2022-12-05 - On May 25, 1919, the senior minister announced that the church's name would be changed from the Church of the Messiah (Unitarian) to the non-denominational Community Church of New York, later reverting back years later to Unitarian-Universalist; the Hutchings was destroyed by fire and replaced in 1924 by a 4/38 Fazakas; the building was demolished in 1930 and construction of a new building began in 1940; the congregation didn't have a new building until 1948 and a new organ until 1954, when a 3/31 Moller was installed. -Jeff Scofield

Stoplist

Source: From THE DIAPASON May 1924

    New York, New York
    Church of the Messiah/Community Church

    Hutchings   Op. 1680   1912   4/50
    _______________________________________________

    GREAT                       SWELL
16' Diapason        61      16' Bourdon          61
 8' 1st Diapason    61       8' Diapason         61
 8' 2nd Diapason    61       8' Stopped Flute    61
 8' Great Flute     61       8' Tibia Clausa     61
 8' Great Gamba     61       8' Viol d'Orchestre 61
 8' Gemshorn        61       8' Salicional       61
 4' Octave          61       8' Vox Celeste      61
 4' Harmonic Flute  61       8' Aeoline          61
 2' Fifteenth       61       4' Traverse Flute   61
 8' Trumpet         61       4' Violina          61
    Sub                      2' Flautino         61
    Super                  III  Solo Mixture    183
    Chimes                   8' Cornopean        61
                             8' Oboe             61
    CHOIR                    8' Vox Humana       61
16' Dulciana        61          Tremolo
 8' Violin Diapason 61          Sub
 8' Concert Flute   61          Unison Off
 8' Quintadena      61          Super
 8' Muted Viole     61
 8' Dulciana        61          ECHO
 4' Fugara          61       8' Gedeckt          61
 4' Chimney Flute   61       8' Celestina        61
 2' Piccolo         61       8' Unda Maris       61
 8' Orchestral Oboe 61       8' Vox Humana       61
 8' Clarinet        61          Tremolo
    Tremolo                     Sub
    Sub                         Super
    Super
                                PEDAL
    ORCHESTRAL SOLO         32' Resultant        --
 8' Stentorphone    61      16' 1st Diapason     32
 8' Hohlflöte       61      16' 2nd Diapason     GT
 8' Great Gamba     61      16' Bourdon          32
 4' Wald Flute      61      16' Violone          32
 8' Tuba            61      16' Dulciana         CH
    Sub                 10 2/3' Quint             7
    Super                    8' Octave           12
                             8' Bass Flute        5
                             8' Violoncello      12
                             8' Dolce Flute      SW

     [Received from Jeff Scofield December 4, 2022]