Better Pipe Organ Database

Welte-Mignon Corporation [Welte Organ Co.] (1918)

Residence: Wm. Boyce Thompson ("Alder Manor")
North Broadway
Yonkers, NY

Note: Not playable. (in this location)

Images

Unknown - Second Floor Hall and Console (Photograph (ca. 1920) from the Thompson Family Archives; image courtesy of Jim Lewis/Database Manager)

2012-08-30 - Pipe Facades and Chamber Grillework (Photograph by Jim Lewis/Database Manager)

2012-08-30 - Console (Photograph by Jim Lewis/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

3 manuals
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes

Notes

2012-05-13 - Identified through online information from Jim Lewis. -- Three-manual Welte Philharmonic Organ installed ca.1915. "Alder Manor" was built in 1912 and designed by Carrere & Hastings. Console is on the second floor, main pipework on the third floor and the Echo division is in the basement speaking up through floor grilles in the main first floor hallway. -Database Manager

2012-10-02 - Updated through online information from Jim Lewis. -- This organ was built ca. 1918 by M.P. Moller, as a sub-contract from the Welte Co. The main divisions are on the third floor and speak into the galleried main staircase area. The Echo division is in the basement and speaks through a small grill at the base of a wall in the main hallway, near the front entrance to the house. The console is partly recessed into a wall on the second floor, just outside the master bedroom suite. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from console 8/30/2012 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Yonkers, New York
Col. William Boyce Thompson Residence - "Alter Manor"

Welte-Mignon Corporation   ca. 1917

     GREAT ORGAN (61 notes)
 8'  Diapason
 8'  Philomela
 8'  Bourdon
 8'  Viol d'Orchestre
 8'  Voix Celeste
 8'  Violin Solo
 8'  Flauto Traverso
 4'  Flute
 8'  Bassoon
     Harpe
     Chimes

     SWELL ORGAN (61 notes)
 8'  Diapason
 8'  Viola di Gamba
 8'  Æoline
 8'  Flauto Dolce
16' Clarinet
 8'  Trumpet
 8'  Oboe
     Tremolo

     ECHO ORGAN (61 notes)
 8'  Dulciana
 8'  Nighthorn
 4'  Flute Harmonic
 8'  Vox Humana
     Tremolo

     PEDAL ORGAN (32 notes)
16'  Bourdon
 8'  Cello

     COUPLERS
     Swell Super Octaves
     Swell Sub Octaves
     Swell to Great
     Swell to Great Super Octaves
     Swell to Great Sub Octaves
     Swell to Pedal
     Great Super Octaves
     Great to Pedal


 [Received from Jim lewis 2012-09-01.]