German Presbyterian Church / Hickory Street Presbyterian Church
435 Hickory Street
Scranton, PA
Images
1921-11-01 - Nave and Pipe Facade (Photograph courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives/Database Manager)
1921-11-01 - Chancel and Twin Pipe Facades (Photograph courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives/Database Manager)
1921-11-01 - Console (Photograph courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives/Database Manager)
2024 - Console (Stephen Regec - For Piping Up From Pedal To Pipe/Stephen Regec)
2024 - Facade in rear gallery (Stephen Regec - For Piping Up From Pedal To Pipe/Stephen Regec)
2024 - Facade in rear gallery (Stephen Regec - For Piping Up From Pedal To Pipe/Stephen Regec)
2024 - Facade at Chancel (Stephen Regec - For Piping Up From Pedal To Pipe/Stephen Regec)
2024 - Original Blower with wooden fan blades from 1920 (Stephen Regec - For Piping Up From Pedal To Pipe/Stephen Regec)
2024 - Great Division pipework (Stephen Regec - For Piping Up From Pedal To Pipe/Stephen Regec)
2024 - Great Division pipework (Stephen Regec - For Piping Up From Pedal To Pipe/Stephen Regec)
2024 - Zimbelstern (Stephen Regec - For Piping Up From Pedal To Pipe/Stephen Regec)
2024 - Choir Division pipework (Stephen Regec - For Piping Up From Pedal To Pipe/Stephen Regec)
2024 - Herald Trumpet (Stephen Regec - For Piping Up From Pedal To Pipe/Stephen Regec)
2024 - Swell Division pipework (Stephen Regec - For Piping Up From Pedal To Pipe/Stephen Regec)
2024 - Pedal Division pipework (Stephen Regec - For Piping Up From Pedal To Pipe/Stephen Regec)
2024 - Chimes (Stephen Regec - For Piping Up From Pedal To Pipe/Stephen Regec)
2024 - Pedal Division pipework (Stephen Regec - For Piping Up From Pedal To Pipe/Stephen Regec)
2024 - Pedal Division pipework (Stephen Regec - For Piping Up From Pedal To Pipe/Stephen Regec)
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 action Type: Electrical
- Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
- Manual compass: 61 notes
- Pedal compass: 32 notes
- Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has combination toe pistons
- Has coupler toe pistons
- Has tutti thumb pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2010-10-18 - Identified through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Church name changed from South Side to Hickory Street in 1931; main organ installed across gallery and 6-stop Chancel organ located to each side of the choir loft, facing toward the nave and to the choir; new 3-manual Casavant console installed by Burness & Associates in 1969; new Casavant 8' 49-note Hooded Trumpet added by Burness in 1994. -Database Manager
2010-10-19 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager
2013-04-21 - Updated through online information from Stephen T. Emick. -- I was a sixth generation member of this church, grew up there and participated in choirs and other groups. I still have family members in this church. I now serve as a Presbyterian minister in Allentown, PA. The information I am submitting comes from several different anniversary history books for the Hickory Street Presbyterian Church.<br>The Church was named German Presbyterian at the time this organ was installed, and renamed Hickory Street Presbyterian Church in March 1930. It is the third organ in this church. The first was built by the Cabinet Pipe Organ Company of Syracuse, NY. The second was built in 1890 by the M. P. Moller Company of Hagerstown, MD. The third, and current organ, was built in 1920. It was designed by Dr. Charles M. Courboin and built by Casavant Freres, Ltd. at a cost of $30,000. <br>The original console is the one pictured here and described above. The organ was restored in 1971 with all pipes completely restored and a new console was placed in its current location in the balcony replacing the original console that was in the chancel in the front of the sanctuary. The new console is a three-manual, electro-pneumatic console built by Casavant Freres, Ltd. The Chancel Organ is in a front right chamber and the Great, Swell, Choir, and Pedal Organs are in chambers in the balcony. -Database Manager
2015-07-25 - Updated through information in Casavant documents, courtesy of Simon Couture and Denis Blaine. The cost was $ 19,100.00. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Stoplist copied from the factory specifications Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Scranton, Pennsylvania
South Side (Hickory Street) Presbyterian Church
Casavant Op. 880 1921 4/48
Courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives
St. Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada
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GREAT SWELL
16' Double Open 66 16' Bourdon 73
(7 borrowed) 8' Open Diapason 73
8' Open Diapason 73 8' Stopped Diapason 73
8' Violin Diapason 73 8' Viola di Gamba 73
8' Doppelflöte 73 8' Voix Céleste 73
8' Chimney Flute 73 4' Fugara 73
8' Gemshorn 73 4' Traverse Flute 73
4' Octave 73 2' Harmonic Piccolo 61
4' Waldflöte 73 IV Cornet 292
2' Fifteenth 61 16' Bassoon 73
IV Mixture 292 8' Cornopean 73
8' Tromba 73 8' Oboe 73
Super 8' Vox Humana 73
Tremulant
CHANCEL Sub
8' Open Diapason 73 Super
8' Melodia 73 Chimes 25
8' Dulciana 73
8' Unda Maris 73 CHOIR
4' Gemshorn 73 16' Contra Viola 73
Tremulant 8' Geigen Principal 73
Sub 8' Hohlflöte 73
Super 8' Viole d'Orchestre 73
16' Bourdon (Pedal) 32 8' Viole Céleste 61
8' Dulciana 73
PEDAL 8' Dulcissimo 73
32' Contra Bourdon 12 8' Vox Angelica 73
(7 resultant) 4' Suabe Flute 73
16' Open Diapason 32 8' Clarinet 73
16' Bourdon 32 Tremulant
16' Gedeckt SW Sub
16' Contra Viola CH Super
8' Flute 12 Celesta 61
8' Bourdon 12 (two sets of bars)
8' Gedeckt SW Celesta Sub
16' Trombone 32
16' Bassoon SW
[Received online from Jeff Scofield October 18, 2010]
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