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Giles Beach (1866)

Fifth Street (Second) Presbyterian Church
Troy, NY

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


Consoles

Main


Notes

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


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

Troy, New York
Fifth Street (Second) Presbyterian Church

Giles Beach   1866   3 manuals, 32 stops, 37 ranks
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              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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