Better Pipe Organ Database

Wangerin-Weickhardt Co. Opus 118 (1925)

Queen of All Saints Roman Catholic Church
New York City: Brooklyn, NY

Images

Unknown - Church exterior (forgotten-newyork.com/Jeff Scofield)

2011-05-16 - Interior to rear and organ case (Photograph by Steven E. Lawson, NYC AGO NYC Organ Project, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2011-05-16 - Console after Klauder rebuild (Photograph by Steven E. Lawson, NYC AGO NYC Organ Project, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
4 manuals
42 stops
43 registers
5 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets on Slanted Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1985 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - OHS Historic Organs Citation #66 approved 1987, but not presented. -Database Manager

2008-10-17 - Updated through information from Jim Stark. The organ originally cost $13,500.00. -Database Manager

2009-01-21 - Updated through information from Gerry Shamdosky: -- " The organ was installed in the late 'Teens (or maybe early Twenties...I'm not certain) by Wangerin, with Wirsching apparently doing the voicing. And so, the plot thickens!" -Database Manager

2011-01-01 - Updated through on-line information from Connor Annable. -Database Manager

2016-03-03 - Updated through online information from Jim Stark. <br>In 1925, when Wirsching was Tonal Director at Wangerin, the organ was electrified and the Solo Tuba Sonora was extended to 16' playable on the pedal as a Trombone stop. -Database Manager

2022-07-06 - From the NYC AGO NYC Organ Project, Steven E. Lawson: The organ in the chapel was built in 1912 by Philipp Wirsching of Salem, Ohio. As originally installed, the organ had tubular-pneumatic action and a detached and reversed console. In 1925, the organ was electrified by the Wangerin Organ Company of Milwaukee, Wisc., who provided a new console that faces the organ case. At some point, the organ and console were rebuilt by John Klauder of Brooklyn. Klauder also provided new display pipes in the lower center section of the case following the removal of a bas relief of the pope. -Jeff Scofield

Stoplist

from console and historical sources Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Pope Pius X Memorial Organ
St. John’s Chapel
Queen of All Saints RC Church
Brooklyn, New York 
Wirsching Organ Company 1913
 From 1990 console

Great (enclosed except 1 & 2)

16 Principal Major
  8 Principal Normal
  8 Principal Minor
  8 Orchestral Flute
  8 Viole d’Orchestra
  8 Violoncello Celeste (retuned)
  4 Octave
     60 sc, 2/9 mouth cutup 1/3
  4 Harmonic Flute
  2 Super Octave
     72 sc, 2/9 mouth cutup 1/3
  8 Orchestral Trumpet
     12” @ 8’ C

Swell

16 Bourdon
 8 Principal
 8 Flute Unison (stopped wood)
 8 Viola
 8 Voix Celeste (1913 Vox ceolestis)
 8 Gemshorn
 8 Quintadena
 4 Flauto Traverso
2 2/3 Nazard (1913 Violina 4)
III Mixture (1913 Dolce Cornet) 12-15-17 
      2’ 55 sc @ 8’ C, 2/9 mouth cutup 1/3
  8 Horn
  8 Orchestral Oboe
  8 Vox Humana
Tremolo
Chimes

Choir (enclosed with Great)

16 Contra Viola
 8 Concert Flute
 8 Viola Dolce
 8 Unda Maris (TC)
 4 Octave Flute
 2 Piccolo
 8 Clarinet
Tremolo

Solo(enclosed)

16 Contra Gamba (1913 Contra Violone)
 8 Principal
 8 Gross Floete
 4 Orchestral Flute
 8 Tuba Sonora
 4 Clarion

Trem olo

Pedal

32 Resultant (rewired using original 10 2/3 Gross Quint)
16 Principal Major (wood)
16 Bourdon
16 Violone
16 Bourdon Dolce (Swell)
 8 Principal Normal (later extension)
 8 Violoncello
 4 Principal Normal (later extension)
16 Trombone (1925 extension of Solo Tuba Sonora)


 [Received from Jim Stark 2016-02-20.]