Better Pipe Organ Database

Nichols & Simpson, Inc. (2007)

West Side Presbyterian Church
Ridgewood, NJ

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Movable Console
3 manuals
48 stops
5 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
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)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Computerized/Digital
Has sequencer
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

2007-06-09 - Identified through information on the Nichols & Simpson web site, and through information from David Scribner on Pipechat June 8, 2007. The organ is prepared for an additional four-stop antiphonal division. -Database Manager

2007-06-10 - Updated through on-line information from David C Scribner. -- Chests contain Nichols & Simpson pneumatic cylinder stop action as do the Swell Engines, which are whiffle-tree pneumatic cylinder. -Database Manager

Documents

(2007-06-09) Builder's Notes Details of stop construction and borrowing -Database Manager

Websites

West Side Presbyterian Church [Builder's web site] - Stoplist, link to extensive gallery of construction and installation photographs (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)