2016-03-16 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Identified by Scot Huntington, using information found in The Diapason, November, 1965.<br><br>This was a new instrument with a 3-manual drawknob console built in the neo-baroque style with a floating Positiv division. Web photos showing the interior of the late 19th-century brick edifice show the Hook & Hastings pipe-fence facade is still in place, indicating at least this portion of the original organ was retained by Raymond.<br><br>The organ is still extant as of this first entry, but information regarding its state and condition needs to be updated. The 1965 Diapason new organ announcement indicated there were a number of spare knobs provided in each division for additional stops, and a fresh examination of the organ is needed to determine if any stops have in fact been added or modified in the intervening 50 years. The Diapason description gives no location or pipe count for the pedal reeds, so it is unclear whether these were console preparations, and independent stops, or borrowed from one or more Swell reed ranks which have different nomenclature. -Database Manager
Original document from Scot Huntington. Source: The Diapason, November, 1965 p. 37 2017-02-24
Oneonta, NY
First Presbyterian Church
Organ by Chester A. Raymond
Compass: 61/32
All stops independent except as listed.
GREAT
16' Quintadena 61
8' Principal 61
8' Hohlflote 61
4' Geigen Principal 61
4' Flute 61
2' Super Octave 61
IV Mixture 244
Chimes
SWELL (Expressive)
8' Rohrflote 61
8' Salicional 61
8' Voix Celeste (tc) 49
4' Spitz Principal 61
2' Flageolet 61
III-IV Plein-jeu 232
16' Fagott 61
8' Trompette 61
4' Hautbois 61
Tremolo
CHOIR (Expressive)
8' Holzgedeckt 61
8' Dulciana 61
8' Unda Maris (tc) 49
4' Harmonique Flute 61
2 2/3' Nasat 61
2' Blockflote 61
III Cymbel 183
8' Krumhorn 61
Harp
POSITIV (floating)
8' Metal Gedecktflote 61
4' Koppelflote 61
2' Principal 61
1 1/3' Quinte 61
1' Sifflote 61
PEDAL
32' Resultant --
16' Contre Basse 32
16' Bourdon 32
16' Quintaten (Gr) --
8' Spitzoktav 32
8' Gedeckt Pommer (Gr 16') --
4' Choral Basse (ext. 8') 12
4' Quintade (Gr 16') --
IV Mixture 128
16' Basson (SW?) --
8' Pommer (SW?) --
4' Schalmei (SW?) --
Chimes (Gr) --
Per Diapason policy, no couplers are listed.
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