Chautauqua Institution: Ampitheatre
1 Ames Avenue
Chautauqua, NY
Images
2022-06-06 - Interior to rear (Photograph by Charles Kegg, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2022-06-06 - Right stopjamb (Photograph by Charles Kegg, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2022-06-06 - Left stopjamb (Photograph by Charles Kegg, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2022-06-06 - Façade pipes (Photograph by Charles Kegg, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2022-06-06 - Console and stage (Photograph by Charles Kegg, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2019 - Organ chambers with doors closed (Photograph from an archival source: Chautauqua Institution Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2019-06-21 - Auditorium interior (Photograph from an archival source: Chautauqua Institution Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2019-08-01 - Auditorium interior (Photograph from an archival source: Chautauqua Institution Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2020-06-27 - Console, stage, organ chambers, façade pipes (Photograph by Joshua Stafford, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2007-06-22 - Console and facade (Photograph by Mark Fischer/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Movable Console
- 4 manuals
- 78 stops
- 88 registers
- 5 divisions
- Key action Type: Electrical
- Stop action Type: Electrical
- Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
- Manual compass: 61 notes
- Pedal compass: 32 notes
- Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
- Has crescendo
- Combination action: Computerized/Digital
- Has sequencer
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has combination toe pistons
- Has coupler thumb pistons
- Has coupler toe pistons
- Has tutti thumb pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2008-08-11 - Updated through on-line information from Fred Rueckert. -- More information for you. Ivory keys with 4 oz. touch, manual compass CC to C4, 61 notes, Pedal compass CCC TO G 32 notes, Contains a Saxophone (labial) and Viol d' Amour. This information does not include 32' Bombarde addition. The organ does have a 16' Bombarde listed in the pedal and listed as a 16' Tuba in the solo. -- the above information does NOT include 32' Bombarde added in 2003 -Database Manager
2009-06-05 - According to the OHS PC Database, this was a complete rebuild, with new chests, of the 1907 Warren organ previously modified by Möller (1920s and 1970s). -Database Manager
2009-06-05 - Updated through on-line information from Fred Rueckert. -- Would it be fair to say the original Warren instrument is no longer there? The pipes (not made by Warren) are; however the instrument in the vault is made by OSI with the computer system by another company. The pipes have been re-used. It is now possible to play the instrument as it was in 1907, and also play is as it was altered in 1928 and 1972. 32' Bombarde added in 2003. The instrument was re-dedicated in 1993 as the Massey Memorial Pipe Organ. -Database Manager
2009-07-08 - Updated through on-line information from Mark R. Fischer. -- Swell has a four note coupler extension. Pedal has a full 12 note super coupler (except Mixture) -Database Manager
2019-06-01 - Console badly damaged by leaking water in the winter of 2018. To be repaired by the Fischers. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Source: Stoplist copied from <i>The American Organist</i> Date not recorded
Chautauqua, New York
Chautauqua Institution
Warren Church Organ Co. 1907 New organ
M. P. Möller 1928 New console
M. P. Möller 1972 New console, renovation, tonal changes
Paul E. Fischer Pipe Organ Co. 1992-93 Complete renovation and tonal restoration
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GREAT SWELL
16' Dbl Open Diapason 61 16' Bourdon 65
8' Major Diapason 61 8' Open Diapason 65
8' 1st Open Diapason 61 8' Concert Flute 65
8' 2nd OPen Diapason 61 8' Stopped Diapason 65
8' Clarabella 61 8' Quintadena 65
8' Gamba 61 8' Viol d'Gamba 65
8' Doppel Flute 61 8' Viol d'Orchestre 65
8' Dolce 61 8' Aeoline 65
4' Octave 61 8' Voix Celeste II 130
4' Principal 61 4' Octave 65
4' Wald Flute 61 4' Flute Traverso 65
4' Viola 61 4' Violina 65
2 2/3' Twelfth 61 2' Flautina 61
2' Fifteenth 61 IV Mixture 244
III Mixture 183 16' Contra Fagotto 65
II Mixture 122 8' Horn 65
16' Contra Posaune 61 8' Oboe 65
8' Trumpet 61 8' Vox Humana 61
4' Clarion 61 4' Clarion 65
Tremolo
SOLO (unenclosed)
CHOIR
8' Stentorphone 61
8' Gross Flute 61 16' Contra Gamba 65
8' German Gamba 61 8' Geigen Principal 65
8' Gamba Celeste 61 8' Melodia 65
4' Octave 61 8' Gedeckt 65
4' Harmonic Flute 61 8' Dulciana 65
V Grand Harmonics 305 8' Viol d'Amour 65
16' Tuba 61 8' Unda Maris 65
8' Tuba 61 4' Harmonic Flute 65
8' Bell Clarinet 61 4' Fugara 65
4' Tuba 61 2 2/3' Nazard 61
Tremolo 2' Harmonic Piccolo 61
Chimes CH 1 3/5' Tierce 61
III Cymbel 183
PEDAL 16' Bassoon 65
8' Cor Anglais 65
32' Dbl Open Diapason 44 8' Clarinet 65
32' Sub Bourdon 44 8' Saxophone 65
16' Major Diapason 44 8' Orchestral Oboe 65
16' Open Diapason GT Tremolo
16' Bourdon 12 Chimes 21
16' Violone 44
16' Dulciana 44
16' Lieblich Gedeckt SW
16' Gamba CH
8' Octave (ext. 32') 24
8' Violoncello 44
8' Spitz Principal 44
8' Bass Flute 44
4' Spitz Principal 12
III Mixture 132
32' Bombarde (2003) 12
16' Bombarde (Tuba) 12 SO
16' Trombone 44
8' Trumpet 44
Super
[Received from Jeff Scofield June 1, 2019]
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