Better Pipe Organ Database

Henry Niemann (1897)

Old Otterbein United Methodist Church: Sanctuary; rear gallery
112 W. Conway Street
Baltimore, MD

OHS convention: 1971

Images

2012-02-23 - Church exterior (Photograph by Wikipedia, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2018-08-06 - Keydesk (Photograph by John Roper/Database Manager)

2018-08-06 - Pedal Detail (Photograph by John Roper/Database Manager)

2008-08-08 - Pipe Facade and Keydesk (Photograph by David M. Storey/Database Manager)

2008-08-08 - Balcony and Organ Case (Photograph by David M. Storey/Database Manager)

2023 - Organ in balcony (Len Levasseur/John Roper)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
13 stops
13 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: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Has combination trundles

Notes

2004-10-30 - Free standing in the rear gallery. Restored ca. 1994 by David Storey, including refinished case. Historic Organs Recital 10 July, 1991. Status Note: There 2004. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - This entry represents the original installation of a new organ. Identified from the extant organ and from church records. The original cost was $1,500.00. It was given as a memorial gift. The organ was restored in 1994 by David M. Storey of Baltimore. -Database Manager

2005-11-20 - Updated through on-line information from David M Storey. -- This is the least altered of all extant Niemann organs. It is complete, original and unaltered with hand pumped winding (or electric blower) and double rise bellows. Thoroughly restored and in regular weekly use. It was Niemann's last organ, built in 1897. He died in 1899. -Database Manager

2013-02-18 - Updated through online information from David M Storey. -- This organ received an OHS Historic Citation July 10, 1991 -Database Manager

2016-09-19 - Updated through online information from Daniel Fisher. -Database Manager

2017-05-05 - Updated by Daniel Fisher, who has heard or played the organ. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Stoplist from Tracker 3:1 October 1958; and from Hilbus 305:2 1958

Baltimore, Maryland
Old Otterbein Memorial Church, Methodist

1897 Henry Niemann, 1897
David M. Storey, 1994 - Restoration


       GREAT
8'     Open Diapason
8'     Melodia
8'     Dulciana
4'     Octave
2-2/3' Octave Quint (Twelfth)
2'     Super Octave (Fifteenth)


       SWELL (Expressive)
8'     Violin Diapason
8'     Stopd Diapason (Stopped Diapason)
8'     Salicional
4'     Harmonic Flute
III    Dolce Cornet
8'     Oboe (TC)


       PEDAL
16'    Bourdon


       COUPLERS (Drawknob)
Swell to Pedal
Great to Pedal

Swell to Great


       FOOT TRUNDLES (labeled; l-r)
Great Forte - 8, 8, 8, 4, 2-2/3, 2 [full]

Great Piano - 8' Mel., 8' Dulc.


       PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell Expression                   (bal.)


       NOTES
Manual compass 58 notes
Pedal compass 27 notes

Websites

Niemann Organ - Photograph, history (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)