2018-02-27 - Updated by Josiah Ross, who has heard or played the organ. -Database Manager
2020-10-20 - The current building was built 1916-1921. There are currently no records of the organ in the previoius building. The organ was likely originally tubular pneumatic action, however at a date far in the past, likely the original builder, the chest actions were electrified. When the organ was inspected in the late 1990s, the combination action was a Reisener diode system installed in a room in the basement and the console was built by Reisener. At some time in the late 1990s or early 2000s work was carried out on the organ by a local firm. The church had at least one more, older, tracker action Haskell organ in its Sunday School building. -Paul R. Marchesano
2022-10-06 - "Quite naturally it came about that a pipe organ must be installed, and through the efforts of the members of the chapel, aided by the Carnegie Fund, a good instrument was erected and dedicated on November 17, 1916." -- *History of the Parish of the Holy Apostles, Philadelphia, 1868-1918*. -Paul R. Marchesano
Original document from Josiah Ross. Source: taken from the console, February 16, 2018 2018-02-21
West Philadelphia, PA
Church of the Holy Apostles and the Mediator
Organ by C. S. Haskell [Haskell Pipe Organ Manufacturing Co.]
GREAT ORGAN SWELL ORGAN
16' Double Open Diapason 61 16' Bourdon 68
8' Principal 61 8' Stopped Diapason 68
8' Diapason 61 8' Salicional 68
4' Octave 61 8' Vox Celeste 68
8' Doppel Flute 61 8' Oboe 61
2 2/3' Twelfth 61 4' Flute 61
2' Fifteenth 61 4' Gamba 56
8' Trumpet 68 4' Principal 61
Great to Great 16' 2' Flautino 68
Great to Great 4' 8' Trompette 68
Great Unison off Swell to swell 16'
Swell to swell 4'
CHOIR ORGAN Swell unison off
8' Cloister Diapason 68 Tremulo
8' Concert Flute 68
16' Violone 61 PEDAL ORGAN
8' Aeoline 68 16' Open Diapason 32
8' Viol D'Gamba 56 16' Second Diapason 32
4' Octave 68 16' Bourdon SW
2 2/3' Nasard 61 16' Lieblich Gedeckt 32
2' Blockflöte 61 8' Diapason 32
8' Clarinet 61 8' Cello 32
8' Clarinet 68 8' Bourdon 32
Tremulant 16' Tuba CH
8' Trompette Harmonique GT 8' Tuba CH
Choir to Choir 16' 32' Bourdon 12
Choir to Choir 4'
Choir unison off
SOLO ORGAN
8' Major Flute 68
8' Gamba 56
8' Principal 68
16'Tuba 61
8' Tuba 61
4' Tuba 61
Chimes
Carillonic Bells
solo to solo 16'
solo to solo 4'
Solo unison off
Tremolo
There are minor errors in this list. See PDF in Documents for corrected, standardized version.
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