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Unknown Builder (1950)

St. Peter's Episcopal Church
25 Clara Barton Street
Dansville, NY

Images

2017-03-22 - Pedalboard and Swell expression shoe (Photograph by Stephen Rose/Stephen Rose)

2017-03-22 - Keydesk: Swell and Pedal stops (Photograph by Stephen Rose/Stephen Rose)

2017-03-22 - Keydesk: Great stops and couplers (Photograph by Stephen Rose/Stephen Rose)

2017-03-22 - Keydesk with manuals and stops (Photograph by Stephen Rose/Stephen Rose)

2017-02-05 - Exposed Great pipework with swellbox behind (Photograph by Stephen Rose/Stephen Rose)

2017-07-13 - Case front and Great pipework with facade removed (Photograph by Stephen Rose/Stephen Rose)

Consoles

Main

Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
2 manuals
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: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: None

Notes

2017-07-14 - Identified through online information from Stephen Rose. -- Updated by Stephen Rose, who has heard or played the organ. <br> <br>Tonal revisions included the replacement of original pedal rank with a unified electric chest providing 16'-8'-4' stops. Unknown if Mixture and Super Octave were also changed by Delaware Organ Co at the same time. There is also an empty toe board on the Great slider chest from an unknown previous rank from tenor C. Facade pipes were discarded several decades ago. -Database Manager

2024-01-03 - In 2019, what remained of this mechanical-action 19th-century organ was electrified and altered beyond all recognition. Up to that point, this instrument could have been restored and its elegant historic lineage recaptured, but no longer. One presumes the mechanical-action chassis was junked. -Scot Huntington

2024-01-03 - This organ was visited in 1959 by OHS member Cleveland Fisher, who found no nameplate but described it as a organ from "the 1870s". He makes no mention of the missing facade pipes, and with the limited knowledge we had about our organ history in 1959, he could be excused an earlier dating. The console appears to be a pastiche, especially the distinctly non-Johnson vertical stop jambs with their smorgasbord of stop labels. The condition of the organ in 2017 suggests an intervention since 1950--the rebuilding of the console and removal of facade pipes would have been a radical treatment of a old tracker in 1950 when they would have been lucky to have it repaired by a local technician, much less rebuilt as a Holtkamp wannabe, unless it was by the Schlicker company in Buffalo. It is possible there may have been another unidentified round of modernization after 1950. -Scot Huntington

Stoplist

Source: Taken from the console 2017-07-14

Dansville, New York
St. Peter's Episcopal Church
Dansville, NY

Henry Erben, 1849
Johnson & Son, 1886 - Rebuild
Unknown Builder, 1950 - Tonal alterations


     GREAT
[8'] Open Diapason.              56
[8'] Melodia.                    56
[4'] Octave.                     56
[2'] Super Octave                56
II   Mixture                    112

     SWELL (Expressive)
[8'] Violin Diapason       (TC)  44
[8'] St. Diapason.         (TC)  44
[8'] St. Diapason Bass.          12
[4'] Flute Harmonique            56
[2'] Piccolo.                    56
     Tremulant

PEDAL
[16'] Bourdon.                   27
[8']  Bass Flute                 12
[4']  Flute                      12

COUPLERS (Drawknob)
Swell to Pedals.
Great to Pedals.
Swell to Great.

PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell Expression             (bal.)

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