Better Pipe Organ Database

Carl Barckhoff [Sr] (1884)

St. John the Evangelist Lutheran Church
195 Maujer Street (Williamsburg)
New York City: Brooklyn, NY

Images

2008-04-19 - Church exterior (Photograph by Keith Bigger/Database Manager)

2008-04-19 - Facade (Photograph by Keith Bigger/Database Manager)

2008-04-19 - Keydesk (Photograph by Keith Bigger/Database Manager)

2008-04-19 - Console detail: Manuals and Builder's nameplate (Photograph by Keith Bigger/Database Manager)

2008-04-19 - Console detail: Pedalboard, foot trundles, and expression shoe (Photograph by Keith Bigger/Database Manager)

2008-04-19 - Interior case panels (Photograph by Keith Bigger/Database Manager)

2008-04-19 - Kinetic blower (Photograph by Keith Bigger/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
2 manuals
21 stops
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Flat 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

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1993 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - New rollerboard action and swell shade action by Frank C. Drews c. 1950. Fire in church c. 1978. Made playable by David Beaty 1989. Trumpet added by Beaty 1993. -Database Manager

2008-02-26 - Updated through online information from Amanda Husberg. -Database Manager

2010-11-24 - Updated through online information from Connor Annable. -Database Manager

2012-10-22 - Updated through online information from Amanda Husberg. -- The trumpet stop was not added by David Beaty in 1993, he simply repaired the damage to it from the 1978 fire, and replaced some of the pipes. The trumpet stop was original to the organ. -Database Manager

2015-12-02 - Updated through online information from Amanda Husberg. -- The trumpet stop was repaired by David Beaty, not installed by him. It was already on the organ before the fire. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

N. Brooklyn (Greenpoint), New York
Lutheran Church of St. John the Evangelist

CARL BARCKHOFF, 1884


GREAT
   16'     Bourdon
   8'     Open Diapason
   8'     Brarren (Gamba)
   8'     Melodia
   8'     Dulciana
   4'     Octave
   4'     Flute
   2-2/3' Quint
   2'     Super Octave
   III    Mixture III (2 ranks playing in 1963)
   8'     Trumpet

SWELL (Expressive)
   8'     Geigen Diapason
   8'     Stopped Flute
   8'     Salicional
   4'     Fugara
   4'     Flute d'Amour
   2'     Piccolo
   8'     Oboe

PEDAL
   16'    Open Diapason
   16'    Bourdon 
   8'     Violon


(Stoplist: Schnute 1997 = from an article by Robert Schuneman who was repairing and restoring the instrument.)

Websites

NYC AGO NYC Organ Project - Stoplist, photos and histories (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)