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Reuben Midmer & Son (1913)

Mamaroneck Methodist Church
546 East Boston Post Road
Mamaroneck, NY

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


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Notes

2015-04-18 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Identified by Scot Huntington, based on information learned from a conversation with Robert Barney. -- A new, tubular-pneumatic instrument installed in the rear gallery of this historic 1859 gothic frame structure. What became of the previous E. & G.G. Hook organ is unknown. The Midmer organ was electrified in the 1950s, according to a church member's memory by "someone from Yonkers," and replaced in 1972 with M.P. Moeller, Op. 10818, a double Artiste unit organ, reusing the Midmer case. Except for the case and façade pipes, the organ was dismantled and taken to the landfill by churchmen. Shortly before its removal, O.H.S. member Robert Barney, then a high-school student, made a tape-recorded document of the organ, dictating its console stoplist and recording each stop individually. -Database Manager


Stoplist

stoplist from verbal recording made summer, 1972 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Mamaroneck, New York
Mamaroneck Methodist Church

Reuben Midmer & Sons, ca. 1914
Electrified ca. 1951 without tonal changes
Original disposition unknown, stoplist from
   1951 console, dictated tape recording by Robert Barney, 1972

Pipe-fence facade (still extant) included speaking Great basses.

Compass: 61/30

GREAT (unenclosed)

8' Open Diapason
8' Melodia
8' Dulciana
4' Octave
Great to Great 16'
Great to Great 4'
Swell to Great 16'
Swell to Great 8'
Swell to Great 4'

SWELL (enclosed)

16' Bourdon
8' Open Diapason
8' Stopped Diapason
8' Salicional
8' Aeoline
8' Voix Celeste (t.c.)
4' Flute d'Amour
8' Oboe
Tremolo
Swell to Swell 16'
Swell to Swell 4'

PEDAL

16' Open Diapason
16' Bourdon
8'  Flute
Great to Pedal 8'
Swell to Pedal 8'

Balanced Swell pedal
Crescendo pedal


 [Received from Scot Huntington 2015-04-24.]

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