Better Pipe Organ Database

Taylor & Boody Organbuilders Opus 55 (2007)

Yale University - Marquand Chapel: Marquand Chapel
New Haven, CT

Images

2007 - Console details (Photograph by Taylor & Boody website, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2007 - Console (Photograph by Taylor & Boody website, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2007 - Pipe and carving detail (Photograph by Taylor & Boody website, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2007 - Organ case detail (Photograph by Taylor & Boody website, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2013-02-15 - Chapel Exterior (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)

2009-02-16 - Case in gallery (Photo by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Keydesk Attached
3 manuals
35 stops
4 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: -2 notes
Pedal compass: 25 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: No Enclosed Divisions
Combination action: None

Notes

2009-07-15 - Short bass octaves, sub-semitones on all manuals -Database Manager

2009-07-16 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Organ housed in white, faux-marble case with blue pipe shades. From the builder's website: Key compass: Rückpositiv (CDE-c 3); Oberwerk & Brustwerk (CDEFGA-c 3); Pedal (CD-d 1). Subsemitones in all manuals. Natural keys covered in boxwood, with ebony sharps. Case of solid wood...with appropriate carving, ornamentation and gilding. Tremulant to entire organ, beater type in Schnitger style. Zimbelstern with two stars mounted in flats of Oberwerk case. 1/4 syntonic comma meantone tuning. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Specification from builder's web site Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

New Haven, Connecticut
Yale University - Marquand Chapel

Taylor & Boody Organbuilders   Opus 55   2007   3 manuals, 35 stops, 48 ranks
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          OBERWERK (CDEFGA-c3)                  BRUSTWERK (CDEFGA-c3)
      16' Quintadene           50            8' Gedackt              50
       8' Principal            50            4' Blockfloet           50
       8' Rohrfloet            50            3' Quintfloet           50
       8' Holzfloet            50            8' Regal                50
       4' Octave               50
       2' Rohrfloet            50               PEDAL (CD-d1)
       3' Quinte               50           16' Untersatz            26
       3' Nahsat               50            8' Octave               26
       2' Octave               50            4' Octave               26
          Mixtur V            250            2' Nachtorn             26
       8' Trommet              50               Mixtur V            130
       8' Vox Humana           50           16' Posaune              26
                                             8' Trommet              26
          RÜCKPOSITIV (CDE-c3)               2' Cornett              26
       8' Gedackt              52
       8' Quintadene           52               COUPLERS
       4' Principal            52               RP/PD
       4' Spitzfloet           52               RP/OW
       2' Octave               52
       2' Waldfloet            52
   1 1/3' Siffloet             52
          Sexquialtera II     104
          Tertian II          104
          Scharff IV          208
      16' Dulcian              52


          Mechanical stop and playing action
          Subsemitones in all manuals          
          1/4 syntonic comma meantone tuning

          Tremulant to entire organ, beater type in Schnitger style
          Zimbelstern with two stars mounted in flats of Oberwerk case


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2015-06-29]

Websites

Opus 55 (Builder's web site) - Photograph, stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)