Better Pipe Organ Database

Estey Organ Co. Opus 1841 (1920)

Memorial Presbyterian Church: Sanctuary
303 N. Locust Street
Assumption, IL

Images

2016-02-18 - Great Pipework (Photograph by Richard Schneider/Database Manager)

2016-02-18 - Swell Pipework (Photograph by Richard Schneider/Database Manager)

2016-02-18 - Chancel and Organ Case (Photograph by Richard Schneider/Database Manager)

2016-02-18 - Swell Stops (Photograph by Richard Schneider/Database Manager)

2016-02-18 - Couplers (Photograph by Richard Schneider/Database Manager)

2016-02-18 - Great and Pedal Stops (Photograph by Richard Schneider/Database Manager)

2016-02-18 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by Richard Schneider/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
2 manuals
11 stops
10 registers
Key action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Remote Pneumatic/Mechanical Capture
Has combination thumb pistons

Notes

2007-09-23 - Identified by James R. Stettner through information from the Estey Opus List, published in The Boston Organ Club newsletter, 1973-1979. -Database Manager

2016-03-03 - Updated through online information from Richard Schneider. <br>Organ has been neglected because it is largely inacessible for service purposes. Currently intending to re-engineeer the instrument to provide service and replace the pneumatic system. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the console February 19, 2016 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

(NOTE: Presented in order of stop tablet appearance on Nameboard, not AGO order)

SWELL: 
TREMOLO
AEOLINE  8'
SALICIONAL 8'
STOPPED DIAPASON 8'
FLUTE HARMONIC 4'
BOURDON 16'
OBOE 8'

COUPLERS:
GREAT TO PEDAL 
SWELL TO PEDAL 
SWELL TO GREAT 8'
SWELL TO GREAT 16'
SWELL TO GREAT 4'
GREAT TO GREAT 4'
SWELL TO SWELL 16'
SWELL TO SWELL 4'

GREAT:
DULCIANA 8'
MELODIA 8'
FLUTE D'AMOUR 4'
OPEN DIAPASON 8'

PEDAL:
LIEBLICH GEDECKT 16'
BOURDON 16'




[Received from Richard Schneider 2016-02-20.]