St. John's United Church of Christ [orig. German Reformed]
217 N. Church Street
Boalsburg, PA
OHS convention: 2003
Images
2018-09-11 - Organ Facade and OHS Certificate (Photograph by H Ryan Ditmer/Database Manager)
2018-09-11 - Organ Facade and Console (Photograph by H Ryan Ditmer/Database Manager)
2018-09-11 - Console (Photograph by H Ryan Ditmer/Database Manager)
Unknown - Console and Pipe Facade (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)
2002-05-01 - Console (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)
2002-05-01 - Manuals and Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)
2002-05-01 - Left Drawknobs (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)
2002-05-01 - Right Drawknobs (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
- 2 manuals
- 14 stops
- Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
- Stop action Type: Mechanical
- Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
- Pedal compass: 30 notes
- Pedal Type: Flat Straight
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
- Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Notes
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1990 -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Moved to chamber in front of church by Charles E. Durner 1902. Detached, reversed console. Rebuilt by Hartman-Beaty 1971, replacing key action & wind system. Pedal board enlarged from 20 to 30 notes. Restored 1990 by R. J. Brunner. -Database Manager
2013-03-15 - Updated through online information from H. Ryan Ditmer. -- Organ is in regular use in all aspects of church life. Normal services, Weddings, Funerals, etc. Great historical instrument that still contributes to current services. We are lucky to have many of the records/history for this instrument in our archives. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
St. John's U. C. C., Boalsburg, PA
1868 Charles F. Durner
(Stoplist: Dieffenbuch 9:7)
Left Jamb:
STOP DIAPASON, 8 feet. (stopped wood)
TRAVERSE FLUTE, 8 feet. (Open wood, 12 stopped basses, non-inverted mouth)
COUPLE GREAT ORGAN, TO SWELL
COUPLE PEDAL, TO SWELL
FIFTEENTH, 2 feet. (common metal)
PRINCIPAL, 4 feet. (zinc and common metal)
STOP DIAPASON BASS, 8 feet. (12 pipes, stopped wood)
OPEN DIAPASON, 8 feet. (top 16 are common metal, rest zinc)
SUB. BASS, 16 feet (pedal, stopped wood)
Right Jamb:
FLUTE, 4 feet. (common metal, chimney flute, 12 stopped wood basses)
DULCIANA, 8 feet. (zinc and common metal, bottom 12 grooved to Traverse Flute)
TREMULO
VOXHUMANE, 8 feet. (bottom 12 grooved to Stopped Diapson, 7 open metal treble flue pipes, altered
resonator, clarinet-like)
VIOLIN BASS, 8 feet. (pedal, 20 open wood, modern extension is open metal)
BOURDON, 16 feet. (great, from tenor g# up)
STOP DIAPASON TREBLE, 8 feet. (42 stopped wood pipes)
TWELFTH, 3 feet.
COUPLE PEDAL TO GREAT ORGAN.
All spellings, spacings, punctuation or lack of same above, are as they appear on the knobs. Great
is situated on two diatonic chests at the same level, side by side, with sufficient space to allow
the Swell vertical trackers to pass between them en route to the overhead Swell chest. The 38 Zinc
pipes of the Great Open Diapason all have varying length toes, indicating that all 38 were probably
in the original case façade.
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