Better Pipe Organ Database

J. G. Pfeffer (1890 ca.)

St. Patrick's Roman Catholic (The Rock) Church: Sanctuary; rear gallery
Near Hwys NN & O
Catawissa, MO

OHS convention: 1979

Images

2023-10-30 - Pipework after 2008 restoration by Philip Hoening (Photograph by Fr. Jeremy Secrist /Fr. Jeremy Secrist )

2023-10-30 - Keydesk (Photograph by Fr. Jeremy Secrist /Fr. Jeremy Secrist )

2023-10-30 - Facade (Photograph by Fr. Jeremy Secrist /Fr. Jeremy Secrist )

1979 - Organ case in gallery viewed from the nave (Photograph from an archival source: 1979 OHS Handbook, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

Consoles

Main

1 manuals
5 stops
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1979. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Compass 58/25. -Database Manager

2021-08-10 - "The organ is freestanding in the rear gallery of this edifice, built in 1866. No blower has ever been installed in this instrument, which is still hand-pumped. The organ has its original wooden leaf springs on its single-rise reservoir. The projecting keydesk has round shanks and oblique knobs. The original [previous] pipe organ was destroyed in a fire which gutted the church in 1885. The building was repaired in 1886. According to *History of St. Patrick's Church Armagh Franklin County, Mo.* by Ellen Meara Dolan, undated but written c. 1974 and copyrighted by St. Patrick's (Old Rock Church) Preservation Society, the instrument came from Tennessee and cost $320." -- *1979 OHS Handbook* -Paul R. Marchesano

Stoplist

Source: 1979 OHS Handbook June 1979

MANUAL (58 notes, unenclosed) Open Diapason 8 (58 pipes; 17 in case; 5 stopped wood basses), Dulciana 8 (46 pipes; grooved to Stopped Diapason basses), Stopped Diapason 8 (58 pipes; stopped wood to top ), Octave 4 (58 pipes)

PEDAL (25 notes) Bourdon 16 (25 pipes, stopped wood), Pedal Coupler

Websites

Organ Media Foundation - Organ demonstration video posted Dec 10, 2023. (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)