Blessed Sacrament Roman Catholic Cathedral
One Cathedral Square
Altoona, PA
OHS convention: 2003
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
Images
2002-05-01 - Console (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)
2002-05-01 - Balcony and Pipe Facade (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)
2002-05-01 - Nave, Balcony, and Pipe Facade (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)
2011-08-03 - Organ in rear gallery (Paul R Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)
2011-08-03 - Facade from loft (Paul R Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)
2011-08-03 - Left stop jamb (Paul R Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)
2011-08-03 - Right stop jamb (Paul R Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)
2011-08-03 - Rollerschweller with general piston toe studs (Paul R Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)
2011-08-03 - Expression shoes (Solo inoperable, division never installed) (Paul R Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)
2011-08-03 - Builder's nameplate (Paul R Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)
2011-08-03 - Blower by Meidinger (Paul R Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)
2011-08-03 - Main cardboard windlines that supply the entire organ (Paul R Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)
c. 1931 - Organ in loft, cathedral unfinished (Archive/Paul R. Marchesano)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Movable Console
- 4 manuals
- 62 stops
- 58 registers
- 4 divisions
- Key action Type: Electrical
- Stop action Type: Electrical
- Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets on Slanted Jambs
- Manual compass: 61 notes
- Pedal compass: 32 notes
- Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
- Has rollschweller
- Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has combination toe pistons
- Has coupler toe pistons
- Has tutti thumb pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1992 -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Some choir pipework shifted up one octave in past. Restored 1992 by Columbia Organ Works. -Database Manager
2008-06-23 - Identified through information adapted from <i>E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List</i>, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: <br><i> Repairs by Aeolian-Skinner in 1954 as their Opus 1291.</i> -Database Manager
2010-01-05 - Updated through on-line information from Nicholas J. Will. -- In addition to the Solid State combination action, the original freie kombinationen system (3) has been restored, as well as the roll-schweller. -- The fourth manual, labeled "Echo," was intended to control a separate instrument in the Sanctuary of the Cathedral, which was never built. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Stoplist Taken from Organ 2/27/2015 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Altoona, Pennsylvania
Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament
Built by G. F. Steinmeyer Co. in Bavaria, Germany in 1931,
GREAT SWELL CHOIR PEDAL
16' Diapason 16' Lieblichgedeckt 16' Salicional 16' Diapason
8' First Diapason 8' Diapason 8' Violin Diapason 16' Violin
8' Second Diapason 8' Cor de Nuit 8' Rohrgedeckt 16' Subbass
8' Gamba 8' Viola 8' Aeoline 16' Salicional
8' Gemshorn 8' Spitzflöte 8' Vox Cœlestis (tc) 16' Lieblich Gedeckt
8' Bourdon 8' Unda Maris (t.c.) 8' Fernflöte 10 2/3' Grossquinte
8' Quintadena 4' Octave 4' Fugara 8' Octave
4' Octave 4' Blockflöte 4' Flauto Traverso 8' Violoncello
4' Spitzflöte 2 2/3' Nasard III Harmonica ætherea 4' Octave
2 2/3' Quinte 2' Schwiegel II Larigot (12th & 15th) 2' Waldflöte
2' Superoctave 1 3/5' Tierce 8' Krummhorn IV Rauschpfife
III-IV Cornett 1' Schweitzerflöte 4' Kopfregal 32' Kontrabombard
IV-VI Mixtur V Grossmixtur Tremolo 16' Posaune
IV Scharff IV Cymbel 8' Trompet
16' Trompet 16' Bombarde 4' Clarion
8' Tuba 8' Feldtrompete
4' Clarine 4' Euphone (free reed)
Tremolo
COUPLERS
Great to Pedal Swell to Great Swell to Great Sub Swell Unison Off Choir Unison Off
Swell to Pedal Choir to Great Swell to Great Super Swell Sub Choir Sub
Choir to Pedal Swell to Choir Swell Super Choir Super
1931 ACCESSORIES 1992 Accessories
Sforzando I, Sforzando II 29 Memory Levels
3 Sets of Free Combinations General Pistons 1-12
Reeds Off General Toe Studs 1-12
Rollschweller Great Pistons 1-6
Balanced Swell Pedal Swell Pistons 1-6
Balanced Choir Pedal Choir Pistons 1-6
Pedal Toe Studs 1-6
General Cancel
[Received from Larry Pruett 2015-03-01.]
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