Better Pipe Organ Database

Emmons Howard (1895)

Methodist Episcopal Church / Embury United Methodist Church: Sanctuary; front
41 E. Main Street
Cambridge, NY

Images

2016-03-10 - Church exterior; facade (Photograph by Ken Gottry on Cambridge NY History, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

ca. 1900 - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Vintage postcard, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2018 - Sanctuary interior showing organ in front (Photograph by CambridgePhoto via Steemit.com, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

1997 - Organ facade in alcove (Photograph from an archival source: The Tracker, 41:3 (1997) 19, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
18 stops
18 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 - Status Note: There 1997 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Ded 9 Aug 1985 by J. H. Ingalls. Compass 58/27. -Database Manager

2023-04-26 - The *Washington County Post* of August 9, 1895 reports: "The Methodist people have completed their arrangements for the organ recital this evening. We are unable to publish the full program, it not having been received at time of going to press. Prof. J. H. lngalls of Rutland will preside at the new organ, and F. B. NcNish [sic] and H. S. Taylor will be their [sic} with their cornets. The choir will be composed of the best local talent assisted by G. LeGrand Hirst, tenor, of Troy. Judging from what we have seen and heard of the new organ we think the audience will more than realize their expectations in the degree of pleasure they will derive from the concert. The organ is one of Emmons Howard's best make containing two manuals of 58 notes each and a pedal base containing 27 notes. The 28 stops admit of an almost endless variety of changes on the 970 different pipes. The organ just fills the alcove built to receive it, in which it stands just flush with the rear wall. Its decorations and wood work are made to match the interior furnishings of the church. The ornamentation of its 25 display pipes are in perfect harmony and have a pleasing effect to the church's interior." The issue of August 16th continues: "In regard to compliment paid the builders of the organ alcove in the M. E. church by Mr. Howard the organ builder, we should have mentioned the name of Patrick McDonnell, who was an equal partner in the work as well as in the contract with Mr. Quinn." Unfortunately, there was no report of the concert. Source: "The Organs of the Upper Hudson Valley", Alan M. Laufman and Stephen L. Pinel, *The Tracker*, 41:3 (1997) 19. -Paul R. Marchesano

Stoplist

Original document from Peter O'Hearn. Additional detail from The Tracker 41:3, pg. 19. Source: Carey Organ Co. service file Winter 1997

Cambridge, New York
Embury United Methodist Church

Organ by Emmons Howard   (1895)


    GREAT  (58 notes)
8'  Open Diapason           58   zinc & metal, 1-17 in facade
8'  Dulciana                58   zinc & metal, 1-12 capped
8'  Melodia                 58   wood, 1-12 stopped
4'  Octave                  58   metal
4'  Flute d'Amour           58   wood & metal, 1-14 stopped
2'  Fifteenth               58   metal
8'  Trumpet                 58   zinc & metal, 50-58 flues

    SWELL (Expressive - 58 notes)
16' Bourdon           (tc)  46   wood
8'  Open Diapason           58   wood & metal, l-12 stopped
8'  Stopped Diapason        58   wood
8'  Salicional              58   zinc & metal, 1-12 capped
8'  Aeoline                 58   zinc & metal, 1-12 capped
4'  Violin                  58   metal
4'  Flute Harmonique        58   metal
2'  Flageolet               58   metal
8'  Oboe                    58   zinc & metal, 50-58 flues
    Tremolo

   PEDAL  (27 notes)
16' Double Open Diapason    27
16' Pedal Bourdon           27

   COUPLERS (Drawknob)
Swell to Pedal             [8]
Great to Pedal             [8]

Swell to Great             [8]

   FOOT TRUNDLES
Great Organ Piano -

Great to Pedal Reversible

Great Organ Forte -
	
   PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell Expression        (bal.)

   ACCESSORIES
Bellows Signal

ACTION: Mech. Key & Stop

VOICES: 18

STOPS: 18

RANKS: 18

PIPES: 970