St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church
135 East 96th Street
New York City: Manhattan, NY
Images
2010-09-03 - Church exterior (Photograph by Steven E. Lawson via the NYC AGO Organ Project, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2010-09-03 - Console side view (Photograph by Steven E. Lawson via the NYC AGO Organ Project, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2010-09-03 - Console (Photograph by Steven E. Lawson via the NYC AGO Organ Project, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2010-09-03 - Church interior to front (Photograph by Steven E. Lawson via the NYC AGO Organ Project, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2010-09-03 - Gallery, organ cases and console (Photograph by Steven E. Lawson via the NYC AGO Organ Project, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
- 2 manuals
- 15 stops
- 17 registers
- 3 divisions
- Key action Type: Electrical
- Stop action Type: Electrical
- Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
- Manual compass: 61 notes
- Pedal compass: 32 notes
- Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has combination toe pistons
- Has coupler thumb pistons
- Has coupler toe pistons
- Has tutti thumb pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2008-05-23 - 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> Replaced 1912 Estey, #1000; extant; unaltered.</i> -Database Manager
2012-08-20 - Updated through online information from Steven E. Lawson. -Database Manager
2020-11-03 - The parish of St. Francis de Sales was founded in 1894 to serve Catholics on the Upper East Side. O'Connor & Metcalf designed the Baroque-style church in 1896, and in 1902 the church was expanded by George H. Streeton. With galleries on three sides, the spacious interior is made luminous by the brilliant stained glass windows set into the side walls and ceiling panels.
The present organ was built in 1949 by the Aeolian-Skinner Organ Company of Boston. Aeolian-Skinner installed the organ behind the existing organ cases, and reused some pipes from the 1912 Estey organ (Op. 1000). The detached two-manual drawknob console is centered in the upper rear gallery. -Jeff Scofield
Stoplist
Typed specification Source: From NYC AGO Organ Project website Date not recorded
New York City, New York
St. Francis de Sales Roman Catholic Church
Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. Opus 1194 1949
2 manuals, 17 registers, 15 stops, 19 ranks
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GREAT COUPLERS (all above top manual)
16' Lieblich Gedeckt 73 Swell to Pedal 8,4
8' Principal 61 Great to Pedal 8
8' Bourdon (ext.) --
8' Dulciana 61 Swell to Great 16,8,4
4' Principal 61
2' Super Octave 61
III-IV Plein Jeu III-IV 226 FINGER PISTONS
Entire 1 - 3
Great Unison Off Swell 1 - 3
Great 4 Great 1 - 3
Gr. to Ped. (rev)
Full Organ (rev)
SWELL (Expressive) Set [unlabeled]
8' Rohrflöte 61 Gen Can
8' Viola 61
8' Viola Celeste (TC) 49
4' Gemshorn 61 TOE STUDS
II Sesquialtera [12-17] 122 Entire 1 - 3
8' Trompette 61 Pedal 1 - 3
4' Hautbois 61
Tremulant
TOE SPOONS
Swell 16 Great to Pedal (rev)
Swell Unison Off Full Organ (rev)
Swell 4
PEDAL MOVEMENTS
PEDAL ORGAN Swell Expression (bal.)
16' Principal 32 Crescendo (bal.)
16' Lieblich Gedeckt (Gt) --
8' Principal 32
INDICATORS
Crescendo
Full Organ
Wind
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2012-08-19]
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