Better Pipe Organ Database

Hook & Hastings Opus 1981 (1902)

Old Swede's Episcopal / Gloria Dei
916 S. Swanson Street
Philadelphia, PA

Images

Unknown - Organ in gallery, some facade pipes removed, date unknown (Photograph from an archival source: National Park Service Digital Image Archives, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

Unknown - Nave, Gallery, and Organ Case (Vintage Postcard, courtesy of T. Bradford Willis, DDS (1910s)/Database Manager)

Unknown - Organ Facade (Postcard ca. 1910, courtesy of William Dunklin/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

2 manuals
25 stops
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Has combination toe pistons

Notes

2013-07-22 - Updated through online information from Carl McAliley. -- This organ was built in 1902 according to the Hook Opus List. It was rebuilt in 1994 by R.J. Brunner & Co. with tonal additions, enlarged from 20 to 27 ranks. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Reconstructed from 1996 OHS Handbook

GREAT (61 notes) Open Diapason 8 (61 m), Melodia 8 (61 w), Viola da Gamba 8 (61 m), Dulciana 8 (61 m), Octave 4 (61 m), Twelfth 2⅔ (61 m), Fifteenth 2 (61 m), Trumpet 8 (61 m)

SWELL (61 notes, enclosed) Bourdon 16 (61 w), Open Diapason 8 (61 w&m), Melodia 8 (61 w), Salicional 8 (61 m), Aeoline 8 (61 m), Flute Harmonique 4 (61 m), Violina 4 (61 m), Dolce Cornet III (183 m), Oboe 8 (61 m), Vox Humana 8 (61 m), Tremolo

PEDAL (30 notes) Open Diapason 16 (30 w), Bourdon 16 (30 w)

COUPLERS Swell to Great, Great to Pedal, Swell to Pedal

Websites

Gloria Dei (Old Swedes) - The Organ - Photographs (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#51541 - R. J. Brunner & Co. (1994)