Better Pipe Organ Database

Estey Organ Co. Opus 2359 (1925)

St. Joseph Auditorium
4th & Jules Street
St. Joseph, MO

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Images

ca. 1920's - Exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Vintage postcard, submitted by David Lewis/David Lewis)

ca. 1920's - Organ chamber (Photograph from an archival source: submitted by David Lewis/David Lewis)

1920's - Interior (Photograph from an archival source: submitted by David Lewis/David Lewis)

August 1938 - Swell Division pipework (Photograph from an archival source: St. Joseph News-Press, submitted by David Lewis/David Lewis)

Consoles

Main

3 manuals
27 stops
32 registers
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Push-Button Stop Controls/Luminous Pistons
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Has crescendo
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons

Notes

2007-10-22 - Identified by James R. Stettner through information from the Estey Opus List, published in The Boston Organ Club newsletter, 1973-1979. -Database Manager

2014-02-27 - Updated by David Lewis, using information found in St. Joseph News-Press 8-7-38/factory records. -- Auditorium was built as a private enterprise in 1903. Organ installed at a cost of $20,000. Featured luminous console. According to News-Press article, was in deteriorating from disuse and lack of repair by 1938, when the building was purchased by the city from the mortgage holder after foreclosure. Organ was gone by the 1960s. Building razed in 1985. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Specification from Estey Shop Order Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

St. Joseph, Missouri
St. Joseph Auditorium

Estey Organ Company   Opus 2359   1925            3 manuals, 27 stops, 27 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN                              SWELL ORGAN
      8' Diapason              61             16' Bourdon               73
      8' Gross Flute           61              8' Horn Diapason         73
      8' Melodia               61              8' Clarabella            73
      8' Gamba                 61              8' Unda Maris (TC)       61
      8' Violoncello           61              8' Stopped Diapason      73
      8' Viol d'Orchestre      OR              4' Flauto Traverso       73
      8' Viol Celeste          OR             16' English Horn          73
      4' Flute Harmonic        61              8' Cornopean             73
         Cathedral Chimes *    20 notes        8' Oboe                  73
                                               8' Vox Humana            73
         ORCHESTRAL ORGAN (enc. with GT)          Tremolo
      8' Geigen Principal      73                 Cathedral Chimes *    GT
      8' Viol d'Orchestre      73
      8' Viol Celeste (TC)     61                 PEDAL ORGAN
      8' Dulciana              73             16' Open Diapason         44
      8' Concert Flute         73             16' Bourdon               32
      4' Flute d'Amour         73             16' Sub Bass (ext SW Bdn) 20
      2' Piccolo               61             16' Violone (ext GT)      12
      8' Clarinet              73              8' Lieblich Gedeckt      SW
         Tremolo                              16' English Horn          SW
         Harp *                49 notes

      *  in Swell chamber

         coUPLERS                                 COMBINATIONS
         Great to Pedal       8                   All Stops & Coups.   4 (thumb)
         Swell to Pedal       8                   Great Stops & Coups. 4 (thumb)
         Orch. to Pedal       8                   Swell Stops & Coups. 6 (thumb)
         Pedal to Pedal          4                Orch. Stops & Coups. 5 (thumb)
         Swell to Great   16  8  4                Pedal Stops & Coups. 4 (toe)
         Orch. to Great   16  8  4                
         Swell to Orch.   16  8  4                REVERSIBLES
         Great to Great          4                Swell to Great         (thumb)
         Swell to Swell   16 US  4                Great to Pedal         (thumb)
         Orch. to Orch.   16 US  4                Swell to Pedal         (thumb)
                                                  Sforzando              (thumb)
         EXPRESSION
         Balanced Swell Pedal                     ACCESSORIES
         Balanced Great/Orch. Pedal               Electric Luminous console
         Balanced Adjustable Crescendo Pedal      Music Bench
           with indicator                         Wind pressure: 6"



[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2016-01-27]