Better Pipe Organ Database

Unknown Builder

Presbyterian Church: Sanctuary
205 Main St.
Port Byron, NY

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

Images

ca. 1910's - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Vintage postcard, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

ca. 1900 - Church exterior; facade (Photograph from an archival source: Vintage postcard, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
7 stops
8 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: None

Notes

2004-10-30 - This entry represents the moving and reinstallation of used organ for a new congregation in the same state, and without tonal changes. It was originally built for a/the Episcopal Church in Moravia, New York. Card says organ now moved to farmhouse near Clyde at Saranac, NY. -Database Manager

2005-06-20 - Organ now in Patrick J. Murphy shop, Available for purchase and installation. -Database Manager

2023-05-02 - The organ was subsequently relocated to the First Parish in Needham, Unitarian-Universalist of Needham, Massachusetts and restored by J. Patrick Murphy & Associates in 2005. -Jim Stettner

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist copied from a related OHS Database entry Feb. 8, 2023

Port Byron, New York
Presbyterian Church

Hook & Hastings, Opus 1226, 1884
Unknown Builder, 19__ - Moving & Reinstallation


    GREAT
8'  Open Diapason           58  1-12 stopped wood
8'  Dulciana                58  1-13 facade
4'  Octave                  58

    SWELL [Expressive]
8'  Viola             (tc)  46 
8'  St. Diapason      (tc)  46
8'  Unison Bass             12  1-12 st. wood
4'  Harmonic Flute          58  harmonic @ c25
    Tremolo                     Knob only

     PEDAL
Ped. 16' Bourdon            27

     COUPLERS (Drawknob)
Swell to Pedal
Great to Pedal
Swell to Great

     PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell Expression        (bal.)

ACTION: Mech. Key & Stop

VOICES: 7

STOPS: 8

RANKS: 7

PIPES: 363

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