2009-01-08 - Identified through information posted to OHS Members List by Scot Huntington January 7, 2009: -- Addition of 4-stop 5-rank Positive to existing organ of 1959. -Database Manager
2009-01-08 - Positive has only 56 notes. -Database Manager
2015-04-17 - Updated through online information from Scot Huntington. -- The original instrument does not appear on the Holtkamp job list. The Job No. 1647 refers to the 4-stop Positive division added in 1963. -Database Manager
2023-03-19 - The organ is installed free-standing in the right-rear corner of the room. The facade is plain: the Principal basses (with forced-length to make them long enough to cover the interior mechanisms), form a chromatic pipe fence on the nave-facing side. The Dulciana basses, with forced length (6 longest are the same length, next six are the same length, slightly shorter), form the left, choir-seating facing side. The choir seating is in the center of the along the rear wall in front of a large window, and the console is located in front of the choir, facing the altar. The 1963 Positiv is installed higher up the right side wall, immediately in front of the main case and perpendicular to it, on a chromatic chest. When I was organist there mid-70s, the Positiv was beginning to lean forward away from the wall. I have not been in the church since, but would hope the division's attachment to the side wall has been reinforced or suspended from the ceiling with chains. -Scot Huntington
Typed stoplist from Scot Huntington Source: Console 1974
St. John's Church, Episcopal
Dunkirk, New York
Holtkamp Cleveland, ca.1938/1963
Job. No. 1647
Compasses: 61/32 (Positiv 56)
GREAT
Principal 8' (basses in nave-facing facade)
Copula 8' (wood)
Dulciana 8' (basses in choir-facing facade)
Octave 4'
Great 4'
Great OFF (1963, original Swell to Great 16')
Swell to Great
Positiv to Great (1963, original Swell to Great 4')
SWELL
Quintaton 8'
Viola 8'
Rohr Flute 4'
Flautino 2' (pipes labeled "12th")
Mixture (2 ranks, pipes labeled
"Dolce Cornet"; 2 2/3', 2')*
Swell OFF (1963, original Swell 4')
PEDAL
Subbass 16' (wood, very large scale)
Lieblich Gedackt 16' (wood, small scale)
Flute 8' (ext. Subbass)
Dolce Flute 8' (ext. L. Gedackt)
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal
Positiv to Pedal (1963, original Great to Pedal 5 1/3')
POSITIV [1963, mounted on side wall perpendicular to main organ]
Gedackt 8'
Principal 4'
Octave 2'
Cymbal (2 ranks)
Positiv ON (1963, grouped with Positiv stops, for playing
the floating Positiv division on the Swell manual)
Coupler stop tabs: 1938 originals black; 1963 tabs white
*2' rank repitched as 1 3/5' 1974-1976, returned to 2' in 1976
Balanced Swell pedal
Balanced Crescendo pedal
[Posted to OHS Members List January 7, 2009 by Scot Huntington]
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