Better Pipe Organ Database

Randall Dyer & Assoc., Inc. Opus 96 (2013)

Curtis Institute of Music: Wyncote Organ Studio
1726 Locust Street
Philadelphia, PA

Images

Unknown - Console and Organ Case ((2014). Photograph by Randall S. Dyer/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Movable Console
3 manuals
21 stops
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Computerized/Digital
Has sequencer
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2014-04-26 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Identified by John Igoe, using information found in <i>The American Organist</i>, May 2014. -- Article notes that action is Electro-Pneumatic -Database Manager

2014-09-05 - Updated through online information from Bryan Dunnewald. -Database Manager

2014-09-07 - Updated through online information from Bryan Dunnewald. -Database Manager

2014-11-04 - The instrument is named in honor of Stephanie Yen-Mun Liem Azar, Curtis Organ '08, who died unexpectedly on July 19, 2013, while attending Columbia University Medical School in New York City. She was 26 years old. -Database Manager

Stoplist

From <i>The Diapason</i>, November 2014 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Curtis Institute of Music - Wyncote Organ Studio

Randall Dyer & Assoc., Inc.   Opus 96   2013    3 manuals, 21 stops, 14 ranks
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        GREAT ORGAN (unenclosed)              POSITIV (unenclosed)
     8' Principal          54              8' Copula             61
          1-7 fr. Ped. Octave              4' Koppelflöte        61
     8' Rohrflöte          49          1 1/3' Quinte             61
          1-12 fr. Ped. Bourdon            8' Oboe               SW
     4' Octave             61                 Sonette Souffleur (Cymbelstern)
     2' Doublette          61
                                              PEDAL ORGAN
        SWELL ORGAN (enclosed)            16' Bourdon            32
     8' Flute              54              8' Octave             32 (façade)
          1-7 fr. Viola                    8' Bourdon            12
     8' Viola              61              4' Octave             12
     8' Viola Celeste (GG) 54              4' Bourdon            12
     4' Gemshorn           61             16' Oboe               12 SW
     8' Oboe               61              8' Oboe               SW
                                           4' Oboe               SW


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2014-11-04]

Websites

Randall Dyer & Associates - Photograph, detailed description and history, stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)