Intercession Episcopal Church
550 West 155th Street at Broadway
New York City: Manhattan, NY
Images
2023-11-06 - Facade (Photograph by Brad Engelland/Brad Engelland)
2023-11-06 - Builder's nameplate (Photograph by Brad Engelland/Brad Engelland)
2023-11-06 - Console (Photograph by Brad Engelland/Brad Engelland)
2002-09-09 - Church interior (Photograph by John Rust via Steven E. Lawson/Database Manager)
2002-09-09 - Church exterior (Photograph by John Rust via Steven E. Lawson/Database Manager)
2002-09-09 - Organ Case (Photograph by John Rust via Steven E. Lawson/Database Manager)
2002-09-09 - Organ case (Photograph by John Rust via Steven E. Lawson/Database Manager)
2002-09-09 - Console (Photograph by John Rust via Steven E. Lawson/Database Manager)
2002-09-09 - Console (Photograph by John Rust via Steven E. Lawson/Database Manager)
2002-09-09 - Church exterior (Photograph by John Rust via Steven E. Lawson/Database Manager)
Unknown - Church exterior 1915 (Historical photo from the NYC AGO NYC Organ Project/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Non-Traditional Style, As Consoles by Holtkamp, Schlicker, et al
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
- 3 manuals
- 52 stops
- 5 divisions
- Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets Above Top Manual
- Manual compass: 61 notes
- Pedal compass: 32 notes
- Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has combination toe pistons
- Has coupler thumb pistons
- Has coupler toe pistons
- Has tutti thumb pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2007-01-19 - Identified through information adapted from <i>E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List</i>, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: <br><i> E. M. Skinner Opus 768 (1929), removed from St. Paul's Chapel, New York, and installed here using the Austin, #1554 case.</i> -Database Manager
2012-08-30 - Updated through online information from Steven E. Lawson. -- This organ incorporates some pipes from Aeolian-Skinner Op. 768-A (1950) that was in St. Paul's Chapel - Trinity Parish. -- Positiv has 56 notes -Database Manager
Stoplist
Stoplist copied from TAO (July 1965) and console Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
New York City, New York
Church of the Intercession (Episcopal)
Schlicker Organ Company Job 8822 1964 3 manuals, 52 stops, 67 ranks
_____________________________________________________________________________
GREAT ORGAN SWELL ORGAN
16' Quintaton 61 16' Bourdon 73
8' Prinzipal 61 8' Prinzipal 73
8' Bourdon 61 8' Rohrfloete 73
8' Gemshorn 61 8' Salicional 73
4' Octave 61 8' Voix Celeste (FF) 68
2-2/3' Quint 61 8' Aeoline 73
2' Octave 61 8' Unda Maris (TC) 61
Mixture VI rks 366 4' Octave 73
8' Trompete 61 4' Flute 73
16' Trompeta Real (TC) prep 2' Flautina 61
8' Trompete Real prep Mixture V rks 305
Chimes (by toe stud) 21 tubes Cymbel III rks 183
16' Bombarde 73
CHOIR ORGAN 8' Trompette 73
8' Viola Celeste II rks 134* 8' Oboe 73
8' Chimney Flute 73 4' Clarion 73
4' Prinzipal 73 Tremolo
4' Flute 73
2' Waldfloete 61 PEDAL ORGAN
Scharf IV rks 244 32' Contra Violone (ext.) prep
8' English Horn 61 16' Prinzipal 32
4' Chalumeau 61 16' Violone 32
Tremolo 16' Bourdon 32
16' Quintadena GT
POSITIV ORGAN 8' Octave (unit) 44
8' Quintadena 56 8' Gedeckt 32
4' Prinzipal 56 4' Choralbass (ext.) --
2-2/3' Nasat 56 2' Nachthorn 32
2' Zauberfloete 56 32' Contra Fagott prep
1-3/5' Terz 56 16' Posaune (unit) 56
Zimbel III rks 168 8' Trumpet (ext.) --
16' Trompeta Real (TC) prep 4' Clarion (ext.) --
8' Trompeta Real prep
4' Trompeta Real (ext.) prep * Celeste rank added later
COUPLERS ADJUSTABLE COMBINATIONS
Great to Pedal Swell 1-2-3-4-5-6 (thumb)
Swell to Pedal Great 1-2-3-4-5 (thumb)
Choir to Pedal Choir 1-2-3-4 (thumb)
Positiv to Pedal Positiv 1-2-3 (thumb)
Swell to Great 16, 8, 4 Pedal 1-2-3-4-5 (toe)
Choir to Great 16, 8, 4 General 1-2-3-4-5 (thumb & toe)
Positiv to Great 8
Swell to Positiv 8, 4 REVERSIBLES
Swell to Swell 16, 4 Great to Pedal (thumb & toe)
Choir to Choir 16, 4, Unison Off Swell to Pedal (thumb & toe)
Positiv Unison Off Full Organ (thumb & toe)
EXPRESSION
Balanced Pedal - Swell
Balanced Pedal - Choir
Crescendo Pedal
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2012-08-29]
Websites
Other Links
Regrettably, it is not possible to display the information about the sponsor of this pipeorgandatabase entry or if there is a sponsor. Please see About Sponsors on Pipe Organ Database.