Better Pipe Organ Database

Henry 'Father' Willis (1900ca.)

St. Mark's Episcopal Church: Rear Gallery
539 Kapahulu Avenue
Honolulu, Oahu, HI

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Images

07/23/2013 - Console and façade (Katherine Crosier/Katherine Crosier)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
2 manuals
9 stops
9 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: None

Notes

2004-10-30 - The original builder was an unknown builder. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1968 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - The exact maker is not known, but was it purchased from Henry Willis and Sons of London. It is believed to be a trade-in dating back to the 1900's, and rebuilt in 1956 for St. Mark's ... Tubular pedal. -Database Manager

2006-10-28 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

2011-07-29 - Updated through online information from Roger Barton. -- There was a statement that this is the only known tracker instrument in Hawaii. That is certainly not the case today, there being at least three other tracker instruments on the island of Oahu alone -- two Beckerath organs at the Lutheran Church of Honolulu, and one J. W. Walker and Sons at St. Christopher's Episcopal Church in Kailua. -Database Manager

2013-07-26 - Updated through online information from Roger Barton. -Database Manager

2025-01-27 - The organ was removed prior to the pandemic (2019) and replaced by a Walker electronic. -Katherine Crosier

Stoplist

Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Honolulu, Hawaii
Builder unknown. Purchased from Henry Willis & Sons. To St. Mark's in 1956.
(Stoplist: David Schnute from T 13:1:16)

GREAT
8' Open Diapason
8' Rohrflöte
8' Dulciana
4' Principal

SWELL
8' Aeoline
8' Stopped Diapason
4' Viola
2' Flageolet

PEDAL
16' Bourdon

2 3\4" wind pressure.

"The manual action is tracker with the pedal being tublular pneumatic."

"... the only known tracker organ in the state of Hawaii."

"The exact maker is not known, but we purchased from Henry Willis and Sons of London.  It is believed to be a tread in dating back to the 1900's, and rebuilt in 1956 for St. Mark's ... "


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