Better Pipe Organ Database

Geo. Kilgen & Son, Inc. Opus 4317 (1929)

Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue at 57th Street
New York City: Manhattan, NY

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

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Movable Console
4 manuals
56 stops
91 registers
7 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys on Angled Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2006-11-03 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Funded by a $50,000.00 donation from the Carnegie Corporation. Specs drawn-up by Alfred G. Kilgen & Pietro Yon. Pipe installed in original Roosevelt chamber, a rigging loft, and a chamber in the dress circle. Dedicated 1929. Broadcast on WOR. Poorly maintainedp; by late 1950s, portable instruments brought in. Removed by 1964 after cost to overhaul Kilgen determined to be $150,000.00. Portable instruments continue to be used - including a Schlicker -Database Manager

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

2014-05-15 - Updated through online information from John Speller. -- Echo Division now in St. Louis Cathedral Basilica. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from <i>The Diapason</i> July 1929 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       New York, New York
       Carnegie Hall

       Kilgen   Op. 4317   1929   4/62
       ____________________________________________________

       GREAT                           SOLO

   16' Major Diapason     73        8' Stentorphone      73
    8' Principal          73        8' Flauto Mirabilis  73
    8' 1st Open Diapason  73        8' Gross Gamba       73
    8' 2nd Open Diapason  73        8' Gamba Celeste     61
    8' 3rd Open Diapason  73        4' Flute Overture    73
    8' Gross Flute        73       16' Tuba Profunda     73
    8' Gamba              73        8' Tuba Harmonic     12
    8' Clarabel Flute     73        8' Tuba Sonora       73
    4' Octave             12        8' Cor Anglais       73
    4' Flute Harmonic     73        4' Tuba Clarion      12
2 2/3' Twelfth            61           Tremolo
    2' Flute Octaviante   12           Sub
    X  Ripieno   (a)     305           Unison Off
       Sub                             Super
       Unison Off                      Chimes            EC
       Super
       Chimes             EC           ECHO

       SWELL                       16' Still Bourdon     tc
                                    8' Horn Diapason     61
   16' Bourdon            12        8' Lieblich Gedackt  61
    8' Diapason Phonon    73        8' Vox Angelica      61
    8' Viola Diapason     73        8' Vox Aetheria      49
    8' Stopped Diapason   73        8' Quintadena       syn
    8' Viole d'Orchestre  73        4' Fern Flute        --
    8' Viole Celeste      61        2' Zart Flute        61
    8' Salicional         73       16' Contra Horn       61
    4' Wald Flute         73       16' Vox Humana        tc
    4' Flute d'Amour      73        8' Oboe Horn         12
    4' Violina            12        8' Vox Humana        12
    2' Flautino           12        4' Horn Clarion      73
    V  Ripienino         183        4' Vox Humana        12
   16' Contra Oboe        73           Tremolo
    8' Cornopean          73           Sub
    8' Oboe               12           Unison Off
    4' Oboe Clarion       12           Super
       Tremolo                         Chimes            EC
       Sub
       Unison Off                      ECHO PEDAL
       Super
                                   16' Echo Bourdon      12 EC
       CHOIR                        8' Echo Flute        EC
                                   16' Contra Horn       12 EC
   16' Contra Gamba       73
    8' English Diapason   73           PEDAL
    8' Violin Diapason    73
    8' Tibia Clausa       73       32' Diapason         res
    8' Gamba              12       32' Bourdon            7
    8' Melodia            73       16' 1st Diapason      32
    8' Viola              73       16' 2nd Diapason      GT
    8' Viola Celeste      61       16' Bourdon           32
    4' Flauto Traverso    73       16' Violone           32
    4' Gambette           12       16' Lieblich Gedackt  SW
    4' Melodia Flute      12       16' Contra Gamba      CH
    2' Piccolo            12        8' Octave            12
    8' Corno di Bassetto  73        8' Bass Flute        12
    8' Horn               73        8' Violoncello       12
    8' Orchestral Oboe    73     XIII  Ripieno           --
       Tremolo                     32' Bombarde          32
       Sub                         16' Bombarde          12
       Unison Off                  16' Tuba Profunda     SO
       Super                       16' Contra Oboe       SW
       Harp               49        8' Bombarde          12

    a  draws 5 ranks of pipes and 1-4-8-9-11 of Great

          [Received from Jeff Scofield December 7, 2015]

Websites

Carnegie Hall - New York City - Console photograph, stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#33459 - Kilgen Organ Co. (1948)