St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church
1008 W. 37th Street
Baltimore, MD
Images
2012-06-07 - Left side of Case & facade (Photograph by David M Storey/Database Manager)
2006-06-01 - Right side of case and facade (Photograph by David M Storey/Database Manager)
2006-06-01 - Keydesk (Photograph by David M Storey/Database Manager)
2017-04-17 - Church exterior (Eli Pousson/Jim Stettner)
2017 - Painting of church; facade (L. Penn (on parish Facebook page)/Jim Stettner)
2024-07-24 - Console (Jim Tartella, via Facebook/Jeff Scofield)
2024-07-24 - Façade pipes (Jim Tartella, via Facebook/Jeff Scofield)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
- Console position: Keydesk Attached
- 2 manuals
- 15 stops
- 15 registers
- 3 divisions
- Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
- Stop action Type: Mechanical
- Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
- Manual compass: 58 notes
- Pedal compass: 27 notes
- Pedal Type: Flat Straight
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
- Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
- Has combination trundles
Notes
2008-10-28 - Updated through on-line information from John Igoe. -- The instrument is in nearly original condition, with some unfortunate modifications to the winding. Current pastor is aware of instrument's value, and has initial planning for full restoration. Played several times a week. -Database Manager
2013-02-16 - Updated through online information from David M Storey. -- Pedal Bourdon pipes divided C/C#. Swell in tower behind Great. Reservoir 4x6 double rise under swell, unused, replaced with small box bellows. Swell pedal action modified with larger pedal. Metal pipes all scrolled and coned. Façade 1-10 of Dulciana, 1-12 of Open Diapason. 1-6 Swell Violin Diapason are open wood, located outside swell box. all tracker mechanism intact. Pedal coupler, single back fall to single idler with two jacks, one great, one swell. ivory key tops intact, rather worn. manual chest – N chests 1st octave divided. original handpumping mechanism intact. -Database Manager
2019-02-18 - Updated by Steven Bartley, naming this as the source of information: Sun paper 4/25/1888 Supplement pg2. According to the article in the Sun Paper - the organ was under construction at \"The Baltimore, Church & Concert Organ Manufacturing Company\". It goes on to say \"Both keyboards will be beveled; and new thumb pistons will be used. The case is of cherry, and the front of a very fine design; the pipes are to be richly ornamented in golden colors; 14 speaking stops; cost $2,000.\" Around the same time other mentions in both the Sun Paper, and the Der Deutsche Correspondent, are seen, but no more details of the instrument. A search of newspapers has not revealed any mention of Niemann being involved, though this writer has seen on number of occasions where a Baltimore organ builder who made repairs or alterations to an organ, by another builder, would apply his name to the instrument. Further research is needed, and possibly when a restoration of the instrument takes place there may be tell tale signs of additions or alterations which would explain the difference in the attributions. BCCOMC was owned by F.X. Ganter whose primary business was cabinet maker of large store & bar furnishing. He hired a trained organ builder to carry out the organ-specific portion and used his team of cabinet makers & large shop to do the woodworking. -Database Manager
2025-02-14 - This church has been closed by the Archdiocese of Baltimore -David Storey
Stoplist
FOOT TRUNDLES: Piano & Forte; PEDAL MOVEMENTS: Swell expression (balanced); ACCESSORIES: Bellows Signal. Received from David M Storey 2013-02-15 Source: Stoplist from the console
Swell Violin Diapason 8, Stopped Diapason 8, Salicional 8, Vox Celeste 8, Flute Harmonique 4, Flautina 2, Oboe [tc] 8, Tremolo
Pedal Ped. Bourdon 16
Great Bourdon 16, Open Diapason 8, Melodia 8, Dulciana 8, Fifteenth 2, Octave 4, Mixture III
Swell to Pedal 8 (Swell to Pedal), Great to Pedal 8 (Great to Pedal), Swell to Great 8 (Manual Coupler)
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