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Giles Beach (1849)

Grace Episcopal Church
32 Montgomery Street
Cherry Valley, NY

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
Console position: Keydesk Attached
1 manuals
6 stops
6 registers
1 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 99 notes
Pedal Type: No Pedalboard
Expression Type: Trigger/Hitch-Down Expression
Combination action: None

Notes

2015-04-19 - Updated through online information from Scot Huntington. -- At some point following its installation, a 13-note pedalboard and 16' Bourdon was added, presumably by Giles Beach. At the time of the organ's acquisition by the Farmer's Museum in Cooperstown, the 2' Fifteenth pipes had long been missing. The organ was installed in a small rear gallery. When the Grace church purchased Hook-Hastings Co. No. 1997., 1903, a 2-8 too large for the gallery and installed at the front of the church, the choir was moved to the newly enlarged chancel as well- a circumstance which ended up preserving the Beach. The instrument remained derelict and unplayable in the gallery, until purchased by the Farmer's Museum in 1964 for restoration and installation in an historic church moved to the Museum grounds in 1961. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stephen L. Pinel, "Giles Beach and the American Church Organ Works" from <i>Litterae Organi: Essays in Honor of Barbara Owen</i> Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Cherry Valley, New York
Grace Church, Episcopal

Giles Beach   1849
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        MANUAL (GG, AA-f3, 58 notes)
     8' Open Diapason [Treble]
     8' Stopped Diapason [Treble]
     8' Stopped Diapason [Bass]
     8' Dulciana [tenor F]
     4' Principal
     2' Fifteenth



[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2015-02-27]

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