Better Pipe Organ Database

Henry A. Burke (1887)

St. Malachy's Roman Catholic Church
1429 N 11th Street
Philadelphia, PA

OHS convention: 1996

Note: Not playable. (in this location)

Images

2009-04-05 - Nameplate (Photograph by Paul Marchesano/Database Manager)

2009-04-05 - Organ (Photograph by Paul Marchesano/Database Manager)

2009-04-05 - Organ gallery (Photograph by Paul Marchesano/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
3 manuals
27 stops
4 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical With Pneumatic Assists
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Adjustable Mechanical
Has hitchdown couplers

Notes

2009-05-25 - Rebuild of existing Knauff organ. OHS Citation awarded July, 1996. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: OHS Handbook 1996 1996

Henry A. Burke (1887)
Originally Henry Knauff & Son (1869)
St. Malachy's R.C. Church
Philadelphia, PA

Mechanical Action

GREAT ORGAN - 58 notes
16' Open Diapason             58 pipes - wood & metal
 8' Open Diapason             58 pipes - metal
 8' Doppel Flute              58 pipes - wood
 8' Dulciana TC (bell gamba)  46 pipes - metal
 8' Dolce (1-12 wood)         58 pipes - wood & metal
 4' Principal                 58 pipes - metal
 4' Flute Harmonic            58 pipes - metal
2⅔' Twelfth                   58 pipes - metal
 2' Fifteenth                 58 pipes - metal
IV  Mixture III [sic]        232 pipes - metal
 8' Trumpet                   58 pipes - metal

SWELL ORGAN - 58 notes, enclosed
16' Bourdon                   58 pipes - wood & metal
 8' Open Diapason             58 pipes - metal
 8' Stopped Diapason          58 pipes - wood & metal
 8' Gamba                     58 pipes - wood & metal
 4' Principal                 58 pipes - metal
 2' Fifteenth                 58 pipes - metal
II  Mixture III [sic]        116 pipes - metal
 8' Cornopean                 58 pipes - metal
 8' Oboe                      58 pipes - metal
    Tremulant

CHOIR ORGAN - 58 notes
 8' Viola (TC)                46 pipes - metal
 8' Melodia                   58 pipes - wood
 4' Violina                   58 pipes - metal
 4' Chimney Flute (TC)        46 pipes - metal
 2' Piccolo                   58 pipes - metal
 8' Clarinet (TC, capped '87) 46 pipes - metal

PEDAL ORGAN - 25 notes
16' Open Diapason             25 pipes - wood
 8' Violin Cello              25 pipes - metal

COUPLERS
Swell to Great
Choir to Swell
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal

COMBINATIONS
6 thumb pistons on loewst key slip

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