2013-05-01 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Identified by Bob Moody, based on personal knowledge of the organ. -- Alterations include replacing a windchest that had been damaged by water. Also replaced was the original McManis console which had a setterboard combination action with a new Klann console with a memory action. Some minor unification was done in this change. The original windchests for the Great and Swell were from Organ Supply. Pipes were from Stinkens with reed from Schopp. McManis made the pedal chests and console in his shop. One stop arrived direct from Holland and Charlie voiced it by mouth at the church. -Database Manager
2019-02-14 - Updated by Carl S Zimmerman, naming this as the source of information: Charles McManis\' autobiography, cited in full on OHS Website, pp.170,285,329. <br> <br> -Database Manager
accurate stop list from memory Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Staunton Virginia USA First Baptist Church Charles W. McManis Pedal. (McManis-built chest with expansion chambers) Subbas 16 Quintadena 16 (gt) Spitzprincipal 8 Gedeckt 8 (from Bourdon) Choralbass 4 (from Spitzprincipal) Fagotto 16 (from Swell Hautbois with 12 additional pipes) Swell to pedal 8, 4 Great to pedal 8, 4 Great: (OSI chest) Quintadena 16 (32 quintadena pipes, then from rohrflote) Principal 8 Rohrflote 8 Dulciana 8 (small scale principal rather than string.) Octave 4 Nazard 2 2/3 (tapered) Flageolet 2 (tapered) Mixture III-IV Great to Great 4 Swell to Great 8, 4 Tremolo Swell: (OSI chest) Stillflote 8 (scaled small in bass, large in treble) Gemshorn 8 Gemshorn Celeste 8 (scaled 2 notes smaller than Gemshorn) Koppelflote 4 (large scale) Principal 2 Hautbois 8 Swell to Swell 16 Swell Unison Off Swell to Swell 4 Tremolo The availability of couplers made it possible to solo with Koppelflote 8 & 2. The Dulciana was strong enough to use with the 2 2/3 and 2 [Received from Bob Moody 2013-05-04.]
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