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Hilborne L. Roosevelt Opus 131 (1884)

St. Luke's Episcopal Church: Sanctuary
Carey Street at Rankin Place
Baltimore, MD

Images


2022-06-24 - Beautiful Choir concert flute, pine sides and back, bird's eye maple front! (Photograph by David Storey/David Storey)

1864 - Church exterior (R. Stiltz & Co. View Photographers/Jim Stettner)

2022-06-24 - Sanctuary facade (David M. Storey/Jim Stettner)

2022-06-24 - Chancel facade (David M. Storey/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main


Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1991. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Electrified by Lewis & Hitchcock in 1929. [Possibly rebuilt by J. Edward Shad at one point. (T 3:3:3).] -Database Manager

2013-05-27 - Updated through online information from Steven Bartley. -Database Manager

2017-05-04 - Updated by Steven Bartley, who maintains the organ.<br> As of 3/2107 the organ was tuned for Easter. Part of the 1920s L&H renovation included rearranging the pedal pipes inside the chamber and providing a picket fence of dummy pipes facing the transept. The 16 Bourdon & 16 Diapason pedal ranks are 27 pipes, each, but playable at 8' pitches, but no additional pipes or mechanism were added to extend them the full compass. The manual keyboards are 61, but the manual wind chests are only 58 notes. The Great is prepared for a 16 Diapason, but no preparation in the chamber, or space for this stop. The Great is also prepared for a enclosed mixture and 4 Flute, toe & rack boards are in place. Access to the sacristy is made via meandering path through the organ. A novelty device, original to the organ, was a foot lever that opened a small door in the back wall of the Choir box. This was so the organist could close the Choir shades, open this door, which faces the door to the sacristy, and the choristers could hear the organ, but the congregation would not, allowing the choir to process into the chancel singing. -Database Manager

2022-06-24 - Saw the organ June 22, 2022. Mostly all working, all extant, pipework in very good condition, stop actions a little slow, very few dead notes, no ciphers, E-P pull-downs on slider manual chests, individual note actions on pedal ranks. -David Storey


Stoplist

(*) Great stops enclosed in Choir box. The Choir 8' Clarinet is belled. Received online from T. Daniel Hancock, 2013-02-18 Source: Baltimore Pipe Organ Rescue website, 2013-01-18

Great Open Diapason 16, Open Diapason 8, Viol d'Gamba 8, Doppel Flute 8, Octave 4, Fifteenth * 2, Trumpet 8, Flute [prep] 4, Mixture [prep] III

Swell Bourdon Treble 16, Bourdon Bass 16, Open Diapason 8, Stopped Diapason 8, Gemshorn 4, Salicional 8, Cornet 3 Rks, Flute 4, Cornopean 8, Oboe 8, Tremolo, Dolce [prep] 8

Choir Geigen Principal 8, Concert Flute 8, Dulciana 8, Flute d'Amour 4, Fugara 4, Piccolo 2, Clarinet 8

Pedal Open Diapason 16, Subbass 16, Violoncello 8


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