Better Pipe Organ Database

C. E. Morey Opus 370 (1924)

First Baptist Church
Ames, NY

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
10 stops
14 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: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Not Meeting AGO Standards)

Notes

2004-10-30 - The original builder was Wm. H. Davis & Son (1880). -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Believed to have come from Presbyterian, Boonville, NY in 1924. Wm. Davis had 11rk, 11st. Relocated to St. Anthony's Maronite Catholic, Lawrence, MA in 1974 by Stuart Organ Co. -Database Manager

2014-08-28 - Updated through online information from Scot Huntington. -Database Manager

Stoplist

from ca. 1964 local organ inventory manuscript Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Ames, New York
First Baptist Church

C.E. Morey, Nr. 370, 1924: moved here and altered
rebuild of William Davis & Son, 1880,for Boonville, New York
Great bung board marked inside: Davis, Aug. 11, 1880

Great

8' Open Diapason  (first common metal pipe on chest marked: D.S. Carnes, 1880.)
8' Melodia
8' Dulciana (t.c.)
4' Principal
2' Fifteenth  (tenor-c marked: D. & Son)

Swell

8' Violin Diapason (t.c., bass from S.D.)
8' Stopped Diapason
8' Aeoline  (1-12 Quintadena basses)
4' Flute Harmonic
Tremolo

Pedal

16' Bourdon

Couplers

Swell to Great
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal 

 [Received from Scot Huntington 2014-08-28.]

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#4779 - Stuart Organ Co. (1974)