Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2008-06-28 - Choir division was prepared-for with blank knobs on the console -Database Manager
2021-03-09 - In a report by "Ernest Willoughby, Organist & Choir master of Church of the Redeemer, Bryn Mawr, Pa.", on the condition of the organ dated Nov 24, 1953, the Choir Division is listed in the specification, indicating it had been installed after 1908. The report mentions that the chambers had not been cleaned since 1926, the likely date for the completion of the Choir division. It also describes the installation of a new console "by Austin Organ Company, Hartford, Conn. installed by Rassman and Donnelly, Philadelphia, Pa. in 1940. Three manual. Compass 61 note. Pedal 32 note. Originally the organ had wind supplied by Kinetic Blower Company blower. In 1951 Rassman & Donnelly installed an " "Orgoblo" built by the Spencer Turbine Co. Hartford Conn. " The organ specification given in this report describes the Tuba as an 85 note unit stop in the Swell which is borrowed to the Great. It also describes the Pedal Flute 8 and Second Diapason 16 as being "extension of Philomela borrowed fromGreat Organ". It also notes that the new console had a compass of 32 notes in the Pedal, although as built the Pedal organ chests had a coompass of 30 notes. -Paul R. Marchesano
2021-03-09 - The cornerstone for the current building was laid in 1907; the church was consecrated in 1915. -Paul R. Marchesano
From Factory Specification Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Frankford
C. S. Haskell 1908 3 manuals, 33 registers, 23 stops, 25 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN SWELL ORGAN
16' Double Open Diapason 73 16' Bourdon 73
8' Major Open Diapason 61 8' Open Diapason 73
8' Open Diapason (DOD) -- 8' Salicional 73
8' Dulciana 61 8' Vox Celestis (TC) 61
8' Viola di Gamba 61 8' Stopped Diapason 73
8' Philomela (fr. DOD) PED 4' Traverse Flute 73
8' Melodia 61 4' Violina 73
4' Octave 61 2' Flageolet 61
2' Fifteenth 61 Cornet 3 ranks 183
8' Trumpet 61 8' Cornopean 73
16' Tuba 85 8' Oboe 73
8' Tuba (fr. 16') -- 8' Vox Humana 73
4' Tuba (fr. 16') -- 8' Tuba GT
CHOIR ORGAN (prepared-for) PEDAL ORGAN
8' Open Diapason 16' Double Open Diapason 73
8' Æoline 16' Second Open Diapason GT
8' Concert Flute 16' Bourdon 30
4' Flute Harmonique 8' Violoncello GT
8' Clarinet 8' Flute (fr. DOD) --
16' Tuba GT
COMBINATIONS 8' Tuba GT
Great 1-2-3-4
Swell 1-2-3-4 COUPLERS
Choir 1-2-3 Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal
PEDAL MOVEMENTS Choir to Pedal
Great 1-2 duplicating Swell to Great 16 8 4
1 & 4 pistons under Great Swell to Choir
Swell 1-2 duplicating Choir to Great
1 & 4 pistons under Swell
Sforzando Pedal MECHANICAL ACCESSORIES
Balanced Swell Pedal Ross Water Motor
Balanced Choir Pedal Motor Starter
Balanced Grand Crescendo Pedal Wind Indicator
Great to Pedal Reversible Crescendo Indicator
Swell Tremulant
Choir Tremulant
Haskell Patent Register Keys
Organ Bench with Music Comp't.
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2016-02-23]
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