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Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. Opus 991 (1939)

Broadway Tabernacle
Broadway at 56th St.
New York City: Manhattan, NY

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

Images

1904 - Cimborio (Photograph from an archival source: daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

1904 - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Unknown - Church interior from balcony (Photograph from an archival source: daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Unknown - Church interior (Photograph from an archival source: daytonin manhattan.blogspot.com, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

4 manuals
53 stops
61 registers
5 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes

Notes

2007-03-17 - Identified through information adapted from E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: Replaced 1904 four manual Hutchings-Votey, #1536; church closed; sold to Robert Turner; fifteen ranks in #762; console to Our Lady of Sorrows, South Orange, NJ which was replaced by Schantz and purchased by Karl Loeser, Plainfield, NJ. -Database Manager

2018-09-19 - Property sold in 1969; the organ was dispersed and the building demolished. -Database Manager

2022-04-05 - After stopovers in South Orange and Plainfield NJ, the console eventually went to Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Shadyside, Pittsburgh PA, where it was installed and is still in use. -Jeff Scofield

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist copied from The Diapason December 1939 Date not recorded

       New York, New York
       Broadway Tabernacle, UCC

       Aeolian-Skinner   Op. 991   1939   4/66
       ______________________________________________________

       GREAT                          SWELL

   16' Contra Geigen     61       16' Lieblich Gedeckt     73
    8' Principal         61        8' Diapason             73
    8' Spitzflöte        61        8' Stopped Diapason     73
    8' Bourdon           61        8' Viole de Gambe       73
    4' Octave            61        8' Viole Celeste        73
    4' Rohrflöte         61        8' Echo Salicional      73
2 2/3' Quint             61        8' Echo Salicional Cel  61
    2' Super Octave      61        4' Principal            73
   IV  Fourniture       244        4' Flauto Traverso      73
II-IV  Cymbel           183        2' Fifteenth            61
    8' Tuba              SO       VI  Plein Jeu           366
    4' Clarion           SO       16' Contra Fagotto       73
       Chimes            SO        8' Trompette            73
                                   8' Oboe                 73
       CHOIR                       8' Vox Humana           73
                                   4' Clairon              73
   16' Contra Dulciana   73           Tremolo
    8' Viole             73
    8' Concert Flute     73           PEDAL
    8' Dulciana          12
    8' Unda Maris        61       32' Diapason             32
    4' Flute Ouverte     73       16' Diapason             12
2 2/3' Nazard            61       16' Bourdon              32
    2' Blockflöte        61       16' Violone              32
    8' Clarinet          73       16' Gedeckt              SW
    8' Orchestral Oboe   73       16' Dulciana             CH
       Tremolo                     8' Principal            32
                                   8' Flûte Ouverte        32
       SOLO                        8' Gedeckt              SW
                               5 1/3' Quint                32
    8' Gamba             73        4' Super Octave         32
    8' Gamba Celeste     73        4' Nachthorn            32
    8' Orchestral Flute  73      III  Fourniture           96
    8' Tuba              73       16' Bombarde             32
    8' French Horn       73        8' Trompette            32
    8' English Horn      73        4' Clairon              12
    4' Clarion           73           Chimes               SO
       Tremolo
       Chimes            21

          [Received from Jeff Scofield September 19, 2018]

Documents

(1939-12-01) Write-up from THE DIAPASON December 1939 Stoplist and description -Jeff Scofield
(1940-03-01) Write-up, after opening, in THE DIAPASON March 1940 Details of opening concert -Jeff Scofield

Websites

Broadway Tabernacle - (New York City Organ Project web site) specification, photos (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)

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