Better Pipe Organ Database

Unknown Builder (1942)

Kent Street Reformed / Greenpoint Reformed Church
136 Milton Street
New York City: Brooklyn, NY

Images

2008-04-19 - Church exterior (Photograph by Keith Bigger/Database Manager)

2008-04-19 - Altar (Photograph by Keith Bigger/Database Manager)

2008-04-19 - Console (Photograph by Keith Bigger/Database Manager)

2008-04-19 - Manuals and stops (Photograph by Keith Bigger/Database Manager)

2008-04-19 - Old Sunday School drum (Photograph by Keith Bigger/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
2 manuals
10 stops
9 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
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: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2009-07-01 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- This was the moving and reinstallation without tonal changes of the church's existing 1921 Austin - originally installed at the edifice on Kent Street. -Database Manager

2009-07-04 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from Keith Bigger Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Brooklyn (Greenpoint), New York
Austin Organ Company, Opus 1035, 1921 - Original Specifications
 
GREAT (Expressive)
   8  Open Diapason                 61
   8  Melodia                       61
   8  Dulciana                      61
   Great 16
   Great On 8
   Great 4
 
SWELL (Expressive)
   8  Violin Diapason               73
   8  Stopped Diapason              73
   8  Salicional                    73
   4  Flute d'Amour                 73
   8  Oboe                          73
      Tremolo
   Swell 16
   Swell On 8
   Swell 4
 
PEDAL
   16 Open Diapason                 32
   16 Bourdon                 (Gt)  12   Extension of the Gt. 8' Melodia.
 
COUPLERS
   Swell 8                  [to Pedal]
   Swell 4                  [to Pedal]
   Great 8                  [to Pedal]
   Swell 16                 [to Great]
   Swell 8                  [to Great]
   Swell 4                  [to Great] 
 
FINGER PISTONS
   General                       1 - 8
   Swell                         1 - 8
   Great                         1 - 8
 
TOE STUDS
   General                      9 - 13
   Ped-Rev    [Gr. to Ped.]      (rev)
   Sforz.                        (rev)
 
PEDAL MOVEMENTS
   Swell Expression             (bal.)
   Crescendo                    (bal.)
 
ACTION: E-P; Austin "Universal" ™ windchests
VOICES: 9
STOPS: 10
RANKS: 9
PIPES: 592
 
NOTES
This stoplist was provided in an e-mail from Keith Bigger on June 28,
2008, who in-turn had received it from Brooklyn organ Builder John
Klauder. The exact nomenclature of stops and controls was verified
against photos of the console submitted by Mr. Bigger for the OHS
Database.

 [Received on line from James R. Stettner July 04, 2009.]