Better Pipe Organ Database

C. S. Haskell [Haskell Pipe Organ Manufacturing Co.] (1916)

Westminster Presbyterian Church
Corner Westminster Avenue & Prince Street
Elizabeth, NJ

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

Images

early 1900s - Church exterior, undated postcard (Photograph from an archival source: Digital History PCUSA, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

Consoles

Main

4 manuals
51 stops
5 divisions

Notes

2011-10-23 - Identified through online information from Steven E. Lawson. -- From <em>The New Music Review</em> (April 1916) -Database Manager

2011-10-26 - Updated through online information from Steven E. Lawson. -Database Manager

2020-04-09 - Destroyed when the sanctuary burned February 29, 1944 -Database Manager

2022-05-10 - Confirmed from a listing published by the firm in *The Diapason*, May, 1916. 4 manuals, 52 ranks, electro-pneumatic action. -Paul R. Marchesano

Stoplist

The New Music Review (April 1916) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Westminster Presbyterian Church
Elizabeth, New Jersey

C.S. Haskell   (1916)   3/45?
Compasses not given, but the builder standardly built 61 note manuals and 30 note pedal divisions.
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The New Music Review, April 1916
The following is the specification of the new C.S. Haskell organ for the Westminster
Presbyterian Church, Elizabeth, N.J., Thomas Wilson, O.:

        GREAT ORGAN                                 CHOIR ORGAN
 1. 16' Double Open Diapason                 1. 16' Dulciana
 2.  8' First Open Diapason                  2.  8' English Open Diapason
 3.  8' Second Open Diapason [ext. #1?]      3.  8' Dolce [ext. #1?]
 4.  8' Gemshorn                             4.  8' Viola da Gamba
 5.  8' Philomela                            5.  8' Unda Maris
 6.  4' Octave                               6.  8' Quintadena
 7.  4' Flute Harmonique                     7.  8' Doppel Flute
 8.  2' Fifteenth                            8.  4' Flute d'Amour
 9.     Mixture, 3 rks                       9.  2' Piccolo Harmonique
10.  8' Trumpet                             10.  8' Clarinet
                                            11. 16' *Tuba
                                            12.  8' *Tuba
        SWELL ORGAN                                 * in Swell Box
 1. 16' Bourdon                                                   
 2.  8' Open Diapason                         
 3.  8' Salicional                                  PEDAL ORGAN
 4.  8' Clarabella                           1. 32' Contra Bourdon
 5.  8' Aeoline                              2. 16' First Open Diapason
 6.  8' Vox Celeste                          3. 16' Second Open Diapason    [GT]
 7.  8' Stopped Diapason                     4. 16' Bourdon [ext.?]         [--]
 8.  4' Fugara                               5. 16' Dulciana                [CH]
 9.  4' Flute Traverso                       6. 16' Lieblich Gedeckt        [SW]
10.  2' Flautino                             7. 16' Violone                 
11.     Mixture, 3 rks                       8.  8' Flute [ext.?]           [--]
12.  8' Cornopean                            9.  8' Violoncello [ext.?]     [--]
13.  8' Oboe                                10. 16' Posaune                 [CH]

        ECHO ORGAN 
 1.  8' Muted Viole
 2.  8' Aetheria
 3.  8' Viole Celeste
 4.  8' Vox Angelica
 5.  8' Fern Flute
 6.  8' Vox Humana
        Chimes (Space provided)

 [Received from Steven E. Lawson 2011-10-26.]

Documents

Write-up from THE DIAPASON May 1916 Stoplist and commentary -Jeff Scofield