Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2015-02-27 - Great key action and couplers had pneumatic assist (Barker lever). -Database Manager
2015-02-27 - The Beach organ was moved to the Congregational Church, Whitman, Mass., in 1907. It was replaced by a new instrument built by the Hutchings-Votey Organ Co., which likely moved the Beach organ to Whitman. -Database Manager
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
Troy, New York Fifth Street (Second) Presbyterian Church Giles Beach 1866 3 manuals, 32 stops, 37 ranks __________________________________________________ GREAT ORGAN 16' Open Diapason 60 * 8' 1st Open Diapason 56 8' Doppel Flute 56 8' Clarabella 56 8' Bell Gamba 56 4' Principal 56 4' Harmonic Flute 56 2 2/3' Twelfth 56 2' Fifteenth 56 Sesquialtra [sic] III 168 8' Trumpet 56 * C-D# have helper pipes at 5-1/3' pitch SWELL ORGAN 16' Bourdon 56 8' Open Diapason (TC) 44 8' Stop. Diap. Treble (TC) 44 8' Stop. Diap. Bass 12 8' Melodia (TC) 44 8' Viola de Gamba (TC) 44 4' Principal 56 2' Piffaro II 112 Cornett III 168 8' Cornopean 56 8' Hautboy 56 Tremulant CHOIR ORGAN 8' Open Diapason 56? 8' Stop Diapason 56 8' Keraulophon 56 8' Dulciana 56 4' Violin 56 4' Wald Flute 56 8' Clarinette (TC) 44 PEDAL ORGAN 16' Double Open Diapason 27 16' Double Stop'd Diapason 27 16' Double Dulciana 27 8' Violoncello 27 COUPLERS & MECHANICALS Swell to Great Unison Swell to Great Octaves Choir to Great Swell to Choir Great to Pedals Swell to Pedals Choir to Pedals Bellows Signal Swell Pedal Crescendo Pedal 3 + Cancel combination pistons 2 combination pedals to Great 2 combination pedals to Choir [Received from Steven E. Lawson 2015-02-27]
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