Better Pipe Organ Database

Taylor & Boody Organbuilders Opus 57 (2008)

First Presbyterian Church
25 Church Street
Pittsford, NY

OHS convention: 2018

Images

Unknown - Console (Photograph by Taylor & Boody website, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2017-04-04 - Sanctuary and Organ Case in Rear Gallery (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

2017-04-04 - Foot Pump (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

2017-04-04 - Organ Case and Facade Pipes (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

2017-04-04 - Right Stop Jamb (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

2017-04-04 - Manuals (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

2017-04-04 - Left Stop Jamb (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Detached Keydesk (Mechanical Action)
2 manuals
23 stops
24 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 54 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Has hitchdown couplers

Notes

2008-05-29 - Identified through online information from Stephen Hall. -- Organ dedicated June 22, 2008. Information from church and builder's websites. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist Source: from OHS 2018 Convention Handbook Date not recorded

Pittsford, New York
First Presbyterian Church

Taylor & Boody Organbuilders   Opus 57   2008
2 manuals, 23 stops, 26 ranks
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            HAUPTWERK
         8' Principal             54
         8' Groß Gedackt          54
         8' Quintadena            54
         8' Flöt Traver           30*
         4' Principal Octave      54
         4' Flöt                  54
     3 1/5' Terz (c')             30
         3' Quinte                54
         2' Super Octave          54
            Mixtur III-IV        173
         8' Trompete              54
            * 1-24 common with Groß Gedackt

            HINTERWERK
         8' Flöt Amabile          54
         8' Lieblich Gedackt      54
         8' Viola di Gamba        54
         4' Flöt Douce            54
         4' Salicet               54
         3' Fistel Quint          54
         2' Hohlflöt              54
         8' Vox Humana            54

            PEDAL (flat, straight)
        16' Subbaß                30
         8' Violonbaß             30
         4' Octave                30
        16' Posaune               30
         8' Trompete (Hptwk)      --

            COUPLERS
            Hinterwerk-Hauptwerk
            Hauptwerk-Pedal
            Hinterwerk-Pedal

Tremulant
Metal pipes of hammered lead-tin alloys
Manual keyboard measurements from 1802 Tannenberg 
   organ at Hebron Lutheran Church, Madison, Virginia
Natural keys of polished ebony
Sharps of walnut with bone tops
Case of solid poplar, painted
Pipe shades of gilded basswood
Console detached and reversed as in the 1800 
   Tannenberg organ at Old Salem, North Carolina  
Mechanical key and stop action in the style of 
   David Tannenberg
Manual compass: C-f''', 54 notes
Pedal compass: C-d', 27 notes
Temperament:  Neidhardt 1724/1732
Pitch: a' = 440
Stops: 24
Pipes: 1217
Common pipes:  Hauptwerk Flöt Traver 8' shares 
   the lowest two octaves with Groß Gedackt  8'
3 wedge bellows with pumping levers

Pitch: A440; Temperament: Neidhardt 1724/1732 

[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2018-06-24]

Websites

Opus 57 Specification [Builder's web site] - Stoplist, link to photographs (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)