Better Pipe Organ Database

Estey Organ Co. Opus 1279 (1914)

North Side Unitarian Church now, Allegheny Unitarian Universalist Church: Sanctuary/Choir loft
416 West North Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA

Note: Not playable. (in this location)

Images

2015-11-08 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by Donald G. Zeilman/Database Manager)

2015-11-08 - Console (Photograph by Donald G. Zeilman/Database Manager)

2015-11-08 - Swell Stops (Photograph by Donald G. Zeilman/Database Manager)

2015-11-08 - Great Stops (Photograph by Donald G. Zeilman/Database Manager)

2015-11-08 - Pedalboard (Photograph by Donald G. Zeilman/Database Manager)

2015-11-08 - Opus Number (Photograph by Donald G. Zeilman/Database Manager)

2015-11-08 - Pipe Facade (Photograph by Donald G. Zeilman/Database Manager)

2015-11-08 - Console (Photograph by Donald G. Zeilman/Database Manager)

2015-11-08 - Silent Controls (Photograph by Donald G. Zeilman/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
8 stops
8 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: None
Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

2007-09-08 - Identified by James R. Stettner through information from the Estey Opus List, published in The Boston Organ Club newsletter, 1973-1979. -Database Manager

2015-12-13 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

2015-11-11 - Updated through online information from Donald G Zeilman. -- To the best of my knowledge, the organ was not altered or significantly repaired from its installation to c1990, when someone attempted to replace the tubing in the tubular pneumatic action and disassembled parts of the instrument. The work was stopped when the church realized that the person was incapable of doing this work.<br><br>Up until that point, the organ was playable but in need of significant attention. It is now not working and has not been touched in the ensuing years. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from OHS Database photos Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Allegheny Unitarian Universalist Church (formerly, North Side Unitarian Church)

ESTEY ORGAN CO., Opus 1279, 1914 - Original Specfications


GREAT                                        COUPLERS
   8'  Open Diapason                61          Swell to Pedal
   8'  Melodia                      61          Great to Pedal
   8'  Dulciana                     61
                                                Swell to Great               16,8,4
   Great Unison On/Off

                                             FINGER PISTONS
SWELL (Expressive)                              None
   8'  Stopped Diapason             61
   8'  Salicional                   61
   4'  Harmonic Flute               61       FOOT LEVERS
   8'  Oboe       [labial]    (tc)  49          Rev      [Gr. to Ped.]        (rev)
       Tremolo

   Swell 16                                  PEDAL MOVEMENTS
   Swell Unison On/Off                          Expression                   (bal.)
   Swell 4'                                     Crescendo                    (bal.) 


PEDAL
   16' Bourdon                      30


ACTION: T-P ventil       VOICES: 8       STOPS: 8       RANKS: 8       PIPES: 445


NOTES
The organ is installed in a chamber in the front, right corner of the sanctuary.
The facade faces into the church, and the console is around the corner in a slightly
elevated loft.

Sources: Estey Opus List; OHS Database photos; JRS

 [Received from James R. Stettner 2015-11-30.]