Better Pipe Organ Database

Taylor & Boody Organbuilders Opus 67 (2015)

Westminster Presbyterian Church: Galbreath Chapel
2040 Washington Road
Pittsburgh (Upper St. Clair), PA

Images

2015 - Building exterior (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2015 - Console (Photograph by Taylor & Boody website, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2015 - Organ case (Photograph by Taylor & Boody website, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2015 - Organ and organ case (Photograph by Taylor & Boody website, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
11 stops
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes

Notes

2015-09-20 - Dedicated on 20 September 2015. Alan Lewis, organ, and Sara Botkin, soprano. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Specification from church web site Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Upper St. Clair, Pennsylvania
Westminster Presbyterian Church - Galbreath Chapel

Taylor & Boody Organbuilders   Opus 67   2015
2 manuals, 11 stops, 11 ranks
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          GREAT ORGAN
       8' Open Diapason       56
       8' Chimney Flute       56
       4' Principal           56
   2 2/3' Twelfth             32  from middle c
       2' Fifteenth           56
   1 3/5' Seventeenth         32  from middle c

          CHOIR ORGAN
       8' Stopped Diapason    56  wood
       8' Viol                56
       8' Viol Celeste        40  from tenor e
       4' Recorder            56  wood

          PEDAL
      16' Subbass             30  wood

          COUPLERS
          Great to Pedal
          Choir to Pedal

          Zimbelstern
          Tremulant

 Temperament: Killner-Bach 1977
 Case of Black Cherry, natural linseed oil finish
 Keyboards with cow bone plates, Gabon ebony sharps
 Pipes of hammered lead-tin alloys or seasoned wood
 Facade pipes of 90% tin hand-scraped and polished
 Total number of pipes: 500
 Integral wind system with wedge bellows
 60mm wind pressure


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2015-09-20]