Note: Not playable. (in this location)
2013-04-14 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Identified by James R.Stettner, using information from this web site: http://www.fpcphila.org/organ/. -- According to the church website, "W.B.D. Simmons of Boston provided the first instrument at a cost of $13,000. Contemporary accounts of the dedication on October 12, 1872, describe the organ standing in the gallery at the north end of the church while worship was conducted at the opposite end of the nave. This orientation of music and worship was the usual plan in Philadelphia churches of that day. The organ, with 44 stops and 2896 pipes was in two sections, the great and swell compartments being on the west, and the choir and pedal on the east side of the 5-lance Gothic window in the Walnut Street wall. The case was designed by the architect, Henry Augustus Sims, who also designed the church building itself." -Database Manager
Specification from <i>The Tracker</i>, 59:4 (Fall 2015) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Second Presbyterian Church
Wm. B.D. Simmons 1872 3 manuals, 44 stops, 53 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN (pneumatic action) SWELL ORGAN
16' Contra Open Diapason 58 16' Bourdon 58
8' Large Open Diapason 58 8' Open Diapason 58
8' Small Open Diapason 58 8' Keraulophon 58
8' Gamba 58 8' Salicional (pp) 58
8' Hohl Flöte 58 a 8' Stopped Diapason 58
4' Octave 58 4' Octave 58
4' Harmonic Flute 58 4' Violin 58
2 2/3' Twelfth 58 2 2/3' Nasard Flute 58
2' Fifteenth 58 2' Piccolo 58
Mixture piano III 174 4' Violina 58
Mixture forte V 290 Mixture III 174
16' Trumpet (TC) 46 8' Vox Humana 58
8' Trumpet 58 8' Cornopean 58
4' Clarion 58 8' Oboe 58
4' Clarion 58
CHOIR ORGAN Tremulant
16' Violina 58
8' Viola Diapason 58 PEDAL ORGAN
8' Dulciana 58 16' Open Diapason (f) 30
8' Clarabella 58 a 16' Stopped Diapason (p) 30
4' Fugara 58 16' Dulciana (mf) 30
4' Flute d'Amour 58 8' Octave (f) 30
2 2/3' Twelfth 58 8' Violoncello-Bell (p) 30
2' Flautino 58 Mixture II (5 1/3 - 4) 60
8' Clarionet 58 16' Trombone 30
a 1-17 stopped
Dynamic equivalents were indicated in the contract
COUPLERS
Swell to Great
[Choir to Great?]
Swell to Choir
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal
Choir to Pedal
COMBINATION PEDALS
1. Draw full Swell, except Reeds
2. Shut off Swell to Salicional
3. Draw full Great, except Reeds
4. Shut off Great to 8' Small Open Diapason, Gamba, Hohl Flöte,
and 4' Harmonic Flute
5. Draw Pedal, Forte--full to Trombone + Great to Pedal
6. Shut off Pedal to 16' Stopped Diapason and 8' Violoncello,
also pull back Great to Pedal
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