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Keates Organ Co. (1969ca.)

Residence: Virgil Fox
394 East Palisades Avenue
Englewood, NJ

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


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2023-07-05 - The console of Virgil Fox's Englewood, NJ residence organ originally built by Aeolian in repose at the Wanamaker restoration shop. (Photograph by Sean M. Haley/Sean Haley)

Consoles

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Notes

2016-06-05 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Identified by Phillip R. Lamb, using information found in In The Pipeline; Memoirs of an Internation Concert Organist - Carlo Curley (with Jonathan Ambrosino). <br>Reconfigured, augmented and altered by several builders. -Database Manager

2018-05-30 - Organ assembled with parts from the Aeolian residence organ, Op. 1577 (1925) in "Daisy Hill" Hunting Valley Village, Shaker Heights, Ohio; the Ernest M. Skinner Co. organ, Op. 231 (1915) from the New Old South Church, Boston, Massachusetts; and classic pipework by Keates Organ Company of Canada. -Database Manager

2022-10-13 - Updated through online information from Ray Biswanger: Just to note that we have received the console, which has parallel terraced stop jambs, and put it on display as part of a Friends of the Wanamaker Organ Virgil Fox tribute at Macy's Philadelphia. -Ray Biswanger


Stoplist

Typed stoplist Source: from www.organforum.com Date not recorded

Englewood, New Jersey
Virgil Fox Residence

Assembled from Aeolian, Skinner, and Keates   1969   4 manuals, 55 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN                          SWELL ORGAN
     16' Diapason                         16' Contra Geigen
     16' Violone                          16' Gedackt
      8' Diapason                          8' Salicional
      8' Principal                         8' Voix Celeste
      8' Flûte harmonique                  8' Claribel Flute
      8' Stopped Diapason                  8' Flûte à cheminée
      8' Erzähler                          8' Aeoline
      8' Quintadena                        8' Unda Maris
      4' Octave                            8' Flute Celeste II
      4' Principal                     5 1/3' Quint
      4' Flûte ouverte                     4' Octave
  2 2/3' Quinte                            4' Viola
      2' Super Octave                      4' Flute
      2' Fifteenth                            Plein Jeu V-VI
         Mixture V                        16' Bombarde
         Harmonics VI                     16' Hautbois
      8' English Trumpet                   8' Bombarde
      8' French Trumpet                    8' Oboe
      4' Trumpet-Clarion                   8' Vox Humana
      4' Trumpet                           4' Clarion

         CHOIR ORGAN                          ECHO ORGAN
     16' Viola Pomposa                     8' String II
     16' Dulciana                          8' Clear Flute
      8' Viola                             8' Fagotto
      8' Flûte harmonique                  8' Heckelphone
      8' Dulcette II                       8' Vox Humana
      8' Erzähler                             Chimes
      8' Erzähler Celeste
      8' Spitzflöte                           PEDAL ORGAN
      8' Spitzflöte Celeste               32' Wood Open (electronic)
      4' Octave                           32' Bourdon (electronic)
      4' Viola                            16' Open Wood
  2 2/3' Nazard                           16' Metal Open (Gt)
  1 3/5' Tierce                           16' Contra Bass
  1 1/3' Larigot                          16' Violone (Gt)
      1' Piccolo                          16' Geigen (Sw)
         Cymbal V                         16' Bourdon
      8' Trumpet                          16' Dulciana (Ch)
      8' Corno d'Amore                    16' Lieblich Bourdon (Sw)
      8' English Horn                 10 2/3' Pedal Quint
      8' Clarinet                          8' Diapason
         Harp                              8' Octave Geigen (Sw)
                                           8' Open Flute
         SOLO ORGAN                        8' Violone (Gt)
      8' Diapason                          4' Choral Bass
      8' Gamba                             4' Gross Flute
      8' Gamba Celeste                     4' Lieblich Flute (Sw)
      8' Major Flute                      32' Bombarde (electronic)
      8' Orchestral Flute                 16' Bombarde 
      8' Tuba Major                       16' Posaune 
      8' Trumpet Military                 16' Fagotto 
      8' French Horn                       8' Trumpet
      8' Oboe d'Amore                      8' Wald Horn
      8' Flugel Horn                       4' Clarion
      8' Vox Humana                        2' Zink
      4' Tuba
      4' Bombard


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2018-05-30]


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