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Wm. Johnson & Son Opus 759 (1891)

St. John's Episcopal Church
210 North Cayuga Street
Ithaca, NY

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


Consoles

Main

Main


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

2021-05-02 - The organ cost $2,950.00. It was electrified and enlarged by W.S. Stevens in 1931, and replaced by a 3-manual Schlicker in 1967, incorporating parts of both organs. The first organ in the church was a one-manual organ by Elsworth Phelps ca. 1824, now on display in the Tioga County Historical Society. -Scot Huntington


Stoplist

Held in the American Organ Archives Source: Viner ledger notebook. 1891

Wm. Johnson & Son (Opus 759, 1891)
St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church
Ithaca, New York

Compasses: 58/30

GREAT
8' Open Diapason       Scale 44
8' Melodia             [Stopped bass]
8' Dulciana            sc. 56
4' Octave              sc. 58
4' Flute d'Amour       [wood and metal trebles]
2 2/3' Twelfth         sc. 65
2' Fifteenth           sc. 70

SWELL [enclosed]
16'Bourdon Treble      #1, t.c.
16'Bourdon Bass        #1, 1-12
8' Open Diapason       sc. 45, 1-7 stopped wood
8' Salicional          sc. 56, 1-9 capped metal
8' Stopped Diapason
8' Aeoline             sc. 56, 1-9 capped metal
8' Vox Celeste         sc. 56, t.c.
4' Flute Harmonique   
4' Violin              sc. 69
8' Cornopean
8' Oboe

PEDALE
16' Open Diapason      sc. 13"
16' Bourdon            sc. 8"

Couplers and accessories not listed, but those typically provided during this period
are as follows:

Swell to Great
Great to Pedale
Swell to Pedale
Tremolo [Sw.]
Bellows Signal
Pedale Check
At least two combination pedals and Gr. to Ped. reversible    

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