Better Pipe Organ Database

Wm. Johnson & Son Opus 737 (1890)

Temple Beth Zion
599 Delaware Avenue
Buffalo, NY

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

Images

c.1895 - Interior showing organ facade (Photograph from an archival source: Jim Lewis collection, submitted by Jim Lewis/Jim Lewis)

ca. 1895 - Exterior of 1890 edifice. (Photograph from an archival source: Jim Lewis collection, submitted by Jim Lewis/Jim Lewis)

Consoles

Main

3 manuals

Notes

2015-08-16 - An original installation. Identified by John Igoe, using information found in Johnson Organs, 1844-1898: Wm. A Johnson, Johnson Organ Co., Johnson & Son: a documentary issued in honor the two hundredth anniversary of his birth, 1816-2016 / by Scot L. Huntington, Len Levasseur, Barbara Owen, Stephen L. Pinel, and Martin R. Walsh. Cranbury, New Jersey: The Princeton Academy of the Arts, Culture, and Society, 2015.. -- -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Buffalo Courier August 31, 1890 August 31, 1890

Wm. Johnson & Son (Opus 737, 1890)
Temple Beth Zion
Buffalo, NY

Great:
16' Bourdon
 8' Open Diapason
 8' Doppel Floete
 4' Octave
2⅔' Twelfth
 2' Fifteenth
    Mixture III
 8' Trumpet

Swell:
8' Open Diapason
8' Stopped Diapason
4' Violin
4' Flute Harmonique
2' Flautino
8' Oboe & Bassoon
8' Vox Humana
   Tremulant

Solo:
8' Geigen Principal
8' Dulciana
8' Melodia
4' Fugara
4' Flute d'Amour
8' Clarinet (t.c.)

Pedal:
16' Bourdon
 8' Violoncello

Couplers:
Swell to Great
Solo to Great
Swell to Solo
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal
Solo to Pedal