Better Pipe Organ Database

Wm. & Chas. H. Pilcher (1901)

St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran / Spanish Calvary Baptist
199 North 5th Street
New York City: Brooklyn, NY

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

Images

2007-11-12 - Manual action (Photograph by Keith Bigger/Database Manager)

2007-11-12 - Pipes (Photograph by Keith Bigger/Database Manager)

2007-11-12 - Nameplate (Photograph by Keith Bigger/Database Manager)

2007-11-12 - Organ gallery (Photograph by Keith Bigger/Database Manager)

2007-11-12 - Manuals (Photograph by Keith Bigger/Database Manager)

2007-11-12 - Pedalboard (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: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
2 manuals
9 stops
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: Trigger/Hitch-Down Expression
Combination action: None

Notes

2004-10-30 - [Firm operated 1906-1910.] -Database Manager

2006-01-11 - Updated through online information from Steven E. Lawson. -- This church was originally St. Matthew's Lutheran Church. -Database Manager

2007-11-13 - Updated through online information from Keith Bigger. -Database Manager

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

2013-02-07 - Restored and relocated to Clifton Springs Sanitarium in 2013 by Parsons Organ Co. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist from Keith Bigger Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

New York: Brooklyn (Williamsburg)
Spanish Calvary Baptist Church (St. Matthew's First Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1939)

Organ ca. 1864 by Wm. & Chas. H. Pilcher, Brooklyn, NY

Great, 61 notes:
8' Gamba
8' Melodia
4' Principal
4' Flute d'Amour
2' Flageolet

Swell, 61 notes:
8' Keraulophone
8' Gedackt
4' Violin
Tremolo

Pedal, 27 notes, flat straight pedalboard:
16' Bourdon

Couplers:
Great to Swell
Pedal to Swell
Pedal to Great
Bellows Signal
Pedal Check

Hitch Down Swell Pedal
Double rise bellows w/2 feeders

[Received on line from Keith Bigger November 12, 2007]

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#46427 - Parsons Organ Co. (2012)