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Thomas William Cunningham (1973 ca.)

Images

2023-06-29 - Organ in rear gallery with nave (Photograph from an archival source: Google: Julie Ayers, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

2022-10-08 - Manuals (Photograph by John Johns/John Johns)

2022-10-08 - Right drawknobs (Photograph by John Johns/John Johns)

2022-10-08 - Left drawknobs (Photograph by John Johns/John Johns)

2022-10-08 - Stenciled pipe work (Photograph by John Johns/John Johns)

2022-10-08 - Builder's nameplate (John Johns/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Keydesk

• Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
• Console position: Keydesk Attached
• 2 manuals
• 21 stops
• 27 registers
• 3 divisions
• Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
• Stop action Type: Mechanical
• Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
• Manual compass: 61 notes
• Pedal compass: 27 notes
• Pedal Type: Flat Straight
• Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
• Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
• Has combination trundles
• Has coupler trundles

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1997 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Merger of Holy Cross and Immaculata parishes at Immaculata building. Organ moved c.1973. As of 1997 Still in use for special occasions. -Database Manager

2009-09-15 - Updated through online information from Donald Hurd. -- Organ used weekly for 8 a.m. Sunday Mass until recently. Air conditioning installed in the gallery ca. 2005, and pump handle was sawed off by installers. Moved to Holy Cross-Immaculata from Holy Cross Church, Mt. Adams, by Tom Cunningham. -Database Manager

2024-07-29 - Updated through online information from Nicholas Koch (July 28, 2024): I visited the church on June 19th and played the organ. It is a fantastic instrument for hymn accompaniment and is flexible enough to do some repertoire. It's voicing is warm and full with bold diapasons, colorful flutes, and delicate string stops. The oboe on this organ is voiced such that it works as both a solo voice or an appropriate chorus reed. The 8' Melodia is a particularly charming rank with slight treble ascendancy. The key action becomes rather heavy when couplers are engaged and the reeds are not particularly fond of being used in full organ. -Jim Stettner

Stoplist

COMPOSITION TRUNDLES: Great Piano, Great Mezzo Forte, Great Forte, Gr. to Ped. (rev); PEDAL MOVEMENTS: Swell Expression (balanced); ACCESSORIES: Pedal Check, Bellows Signal Source: Taken from console 11 November 2023

Pedal Ped. 8' Violin Bass, Ped. 16' Sub Bass

Great Gr. 16' Bourdon Treble, Gr. 16' Bourdon Bass, Gr. 8' Dulciana, Gr. 2' Fifteenth, Gr. 8' Open Diapason, Gr. 4' Principal, Gr. 8' Melodia, Gr. 2 2/3' Twelfth, Gr. 4' Flute Harmonic

Swell Sw. 8' Stopd Diapason, Sw. 8' Aeoline, Sw. 8' Bassoon Bass, Sw. 8' Vox Humana, Tremolo, Sw. 8' Geigen Principal, Sw. 8' Salicional, Sw. 8' Diapason Bass, Sw. 4' Violin, Sw. 4' Flute a Chiminee, Sw. 8' Oboe

Swell to Pedal 8 (Sw. to Ped. On/Off), Great to Pedal 8 (Great to Pedal On/Off), Swell to Great 8 (Swell to Great On/Off)

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