Better Pipe Organ Database

Votey Organ Co. Opus 858 (1899)

Carnegie Library of Homestead
Munhall, PA

Images

Unknown - Console ((2009) Photograph by Jim Stark/Database Manager)

Unknown - Builder's Nameplate ((2009) Photograph by Jim Stark/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

3 manuals
41 stops
41 registers
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes

Notes

2016-02-19 - The organ cost $10,500 and was ordered at the same time as Opus 859 (for Braddock Carnegie Library in Braddock, Pennsylvania). Information from Jim Stark. -Database Manager

Stoplist

On site examination 2009 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Munhall, Pennsylvania
Carnegie Library of Homestead

Votey Organ Co., Opus 858, 1899
3 Manuals, 48 Ranks


Great, unenclosed stage left
16  Double Open Diapason
      31 sc, ¼ mouth, 29 zinc, 32 sm, 1-61 slotted, #25 marked L. Gutfleisch 858
8    1st Open Diapason
      41 sc, ¼ mouth, 17 zinc, 16 in façade, 44 sm, 1-61 slotted
8    2nd Open Diapason
      #13= 85 x 85mm, 1-61 pine, 1-54 beards, flap tuning
8    Clarabella
      #5= 93 x 110mm, 1-4 stw, 5-61 pine, Melodia construction, flap tuning	
4    Flute Harmonique
      66/71/76 sc, 1/5 mouth, no ears, 1-61 cm, #25-61 har, #1 marked G. Fink

Great, enclosed with Choir stage right
8   Gamba
      63 sc, 2/9 mouth, 12 zinc, 49 tin, 1-49 beards, #13 marked A. Schopp
4    Octave
      55 sc, ¼ mouth, 5 zinc, 56 sm
2-2/3  Twelfth
      67 sc, 1/5 mouth, 61 sm
2    Super Octave
      71 sc, ¼ mouth, 61 sm
III-IV  Mixture
      195 pipes, sm; 17=75 sc, 19=79 sc, 22=82 sc, all ¼ mouth
  	CC     17.19.22
	  c1     15.17.19
	  b2	 8.12.15.17
8    Tromba
      5” sc, zinc/sm resonators, 1-49 reeds, 50-61 sm flues

Swell, enclosed stage left, speaks onto stage
16   Bourdon
       13=80 x 105mm, 61 pine
8     Geigen Principal
       47sc, 2/9 mouth, 17 zinc w/beards, 44 sm, slotted
8     Stopped Diapason 
       86 x 111 mm, 61 pine
8     Hohlflute
      13= 57 x 67 mm, 61 open pine, Melodia       
8     Salicional
       56 sc, 2/9 mouth, 12 zinc, 49 sm, slotted, #13 marked A. Schopp,
       55 sc Dulciana
8     Aeoline
       63 sc, 2/9 mouth, 12 zinc, 49 tin, slotted, #13 marked A. Schopp
4     Octave
       57 sc, 2/9 mouth, 5 zinc, 56 sm
4     Flute Traverso (#1 pipe marked Flote Traverso)
       49 x 57 mm, 1-49 pine, 12 sm, 37 har, Melodia construction
2     Flautina
       73 sc, 1/5 mouth, sm, slotted/coned, #1 marked A. Schopp
III-IV-V  Mixture
       232 pipes, sm, 12=?, 15= 70 sc, 17= 74 sc, ¼ mouth
	CC   12.15.17
	c1       8.12.15.17
	c3       1.  8.10.12.15
16   Posaune
       #25= 3-3/4” sc, zinc/sm, 61 reeds full length
8     Cornopean
       #25= 2-1/2” sc, zinc/sm, 49 reeds, 12 flues
8     Oboe
       2-3/8” sc, zinc/sm, 49 reeds, 12 flues
8     Vox Humana
       2” sc, cm, 49 reeds, 12 flues
       Tremolo

Choir, enclosed with the Great stage right, speaks onto stage
8     Concert Flute
       80 x 100 mm, pine, 12 stw, 49 ow, 43-61 har
8     Gemshorn (replacement label “Swell Violine)
       50/59/69 sc, ¼ mouth, ½ taper, 12 zinc, 49 sm
8     Dolce
       58 sc, 2/9 mouth, 12 zinc, 49 sm, #13 marked H. Harding
8     Vox Celestis (II)
       57 & 59 sc @ 8, ¼ mouth, 12 zinc, 98 sm, 1-40 w/beards,
       #13 marked L. Gutfleisch
4     Fugara
       65 sc, 2/9 mouth, sm, 1-15 beards, #1 marked G. Fink
4     Flute d’ Amour
       40 x 52 mm, 37 std pine, 13-37 drilled stoppers, 24 cm
2     Piccolo Harmonique
       69/78/88 sc, sm, #1 marked G. Fink 858
8     Corno di Bassetto
       2” scale, 1-12 capped, sm, 49 reeds, 12 sm flues
       Tremolo

Pedal
16   Contra Bass
       332 x 394 mm, 30 open wood, pine, stage left
16   Bourdon
       #13= 125 x 177 mm, 30 std, pine, stage right
16   Gross Gedeckt
       200 x 264 mm, 30 std, pine, stage right
16   Violone
       141 x 145 mm, 30 open wood, beards, flap tuning, stage right
8     Octave
       41 sc, 2/9 mouth, 17 zinc, 13 sm, slotted, stage left
8     Violoncello
       82 x 85 mm, 30 open wood, beards, flap tuning, stage left
8     Viola
       (from Violone??)
16   Trombone
       9-1/8” sc, 30 zinc resonators w/sm inserts, wood boots

Couplers, L to R by drawknobs over Swell

Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal
Choir to Pedal
Pedal Octaves
Swell to Great
Swell to Choir
Choir to Great
Swell to Great Octaves
Swell to Great Sub Octaves 
Choir to Great Sub Octaves
Swell Octaves (face missing)

Pistons
Swell 1-4
Great 1-4
Choir 1-4
Toe Pistons: Pedal 1-4, Ch. Exp., Sw. Exp., 1-4?

Action: Electro-pneumatic, expression shoes mechanical

Documented by John Cawkins, James Stark & Randall Wagner


 [Received from James M Stark 2016-01-22.]