Better Pipe Organ Database

Philipp Wirsching (1904)

First Unitarian Church
605 Morewood Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA

Images

2009-09-18 - Facade (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
2 manuals
21 stops

Notes

2008-10-20 - Identified by Jim Stark. Carnegie organ, modified by Mellor in 1958. -Database Manager

2010-02-04 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

2013-03-26 - Updated through online information from Andrea Noyes. -- This organ is in very good shape and is actively used each Sunday. -Database Manager

Stoplist

from console 2009 and archival information Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

1904 Wirsching Church Organ Company
Mellor Organ Company 1958
First Unitarian Church of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA

			

Great (enclosed)			
	 8’ Diapason			
	 8’ Viol D’Gamba		
	 8’ Doppel Flute			
	 8’ Harmonica			
	 8’ Dulciana
	 4’ Octave			
	 4’ Flute Harmonique		
	 8’ Tuba  (marked Trumpet on pipes)					

					
Swell				

	16’ Bourdon			
	 8’ Violin Diapason		
	 8’ Voix Celeste			
	 8’ Stopped Diapason		
	 8’ Salicional				
	 8’ Aeoline
	 4’ Chimney Flute			
	 4’ Violina			
	 8’ Trumpet (1950’s replacement)*		
	 8’ Oboe			

Pedal				

	16’ Diapason			
	16’ Bourdon			
	16’ Lieblich Gedackt (Sw)**		
	 8’ Open Flute (borrow)**
	 8’ Flute (borrow)**				   
	 8’ Dulce Flute (borrow)**			
	 8’ Cello

*   Replaced an 8’ Quintadena

** Not in original specification	
    


 [Received from Jim Stark 2016-05-27.]

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#36847 - C.J. (William?) Mellor Co. (1958)