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S.G. Bullions & Co. (1970s)

St. Paul's United Methodist Church
Corner of Avenue and Hickory Streets
Mount Carmel, PA

Images

2012-04-14 - Console (Photograph by Jack Umholtz/Database Manager)

2012-04-14 - Console Details - Great Stop Keys (Photograph by Jack Umholtz/Database Manager)

2012-04-14 - Console Details - Swell Stop Keys (Photograph by Jack Umholtz/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
2 manuals
25 stops
39 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
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: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons

Notes

2012-02-24 - Identified through online information from Jack Umholtz. -Database Manager

2012-04-30 - Updated through online information from Jack Umholtz. -- I recall that I was told by Paul Kehler, my organ teacher in the 1970s and a lifelong resident of Mount Carmel, PA, that the rebuild in the 1970s was done by Clair Snyder. On my visit to the church on 04/14/12, I found an S.G. Bullions, Organ Builder plate on the 1970s console, under the relocated original Möller plate. A Google search found that Samuel Gamble "Bud" Bullions operated S.G. Bullions & Co, Pipe Organ Builders in Pittston, PA (near Wilkes-Barre, PA) until his death in 1983. It is not known if Clair Snyder purchased the new console through Bullions, or if Bullions did the rebuild and my recollection is incorrect. Also, the church facility has now reopened as the Our Lady of Fatima Church of the Catholic Church of the East. I was told the instrument was powered up and played for the bishop, Bishop Ramzi R. Musallam, for Easter Sunday Mass. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from memory Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Mt. Carmel, Pennsylvania
St. Paul's United Methodist Church

Clair Snyder rebuild/tonal update of 
M.P. Moller    Op. 3663    1926      2/20 
New console layout to current standards.
Only tonal update was replacment of the Cornopean with a 2' Piccolo.

     GREAT

   16' Bourdon           73w
    8' Open Diapason     73m  unenclosed    1-17 in facade
    8' Gross Flute       73w  unenclosed
    8' Gemshorn          73m
    8' Dulciana          73m
    4' Principal         73m
    4' Flute             73w
    8' French Horn       73m 
       Tremolo
       Chimes                 
   16' Gt. to Gt.
    4' Gt. to Gt.
   16' Sw. to Gt.
    8' Sw. to Gt.
    4' Sw. to Gt.



       SWELL

   16' Lieblich Gedeckt  73w
    8' Open Diapason     73m
    8' Rohr Flute        73w drilled stopper handles
    8' Viol d'Orchestre  73m
    8' Salicional        73m  
    8' Vox Celeste tc    61m       
    4' Harmonic Flute    73m
    2' Piccolo           61m
    8' Oboe              73m
    8' Clarinet          73m
    8' Vox Humana        73m...in a box
       Tremolo 
       Harp
   16' Sw. to Sw.
       Sw. Unison Separation (Unison Off)
    4' Sw. to Sw.



      PEDAL

   16' Open Diapason     12w 13-32 Gt Gross Flute unenclosed
   16' Subbass           32w unenclosed
   16' Bourdon           32 notes from Gt. Bourdon
   16' Leiblich Gedeckt  32 notes from Sw. Leiblich Gedeckt
    8' Open Diapason     32 notes from Gt. Open Diapason
    8' Cello             32 notes from Sw. Viol d'Orchestra
    8' Gt. to Ped.
    8' Sw. to Ped.


                 
    2 Manual detached console. 
      Stop keys above manuals. 
    4 pistons Gt. and Ped.
    4 pistons Sw. and Ped.
    4 Full Organ (General) pistons
      Swell Expression pedal
      Great Expression pedal
      Register Crescendo Pedal
      Gt. to Pedal reversible

 [Received from Jack Umholtz 2012-02-25.]

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