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Samuel Russell Warren (1876)

Metropolitan Wesleyan Methodist Church
56 Queen Street East
Toronto, ON, CA

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


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Unknown - Interior 1887 (Public Domain/Database Manager)

Unknown - Exterior 1899 (Public Domain/Database Manager)

Unknown - Interior 1899 (Public Domain/Database Manager)

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Notes

2018-06-13 - This organ was a rebuild and enlargement of the existing two-manual organ by O'Dell. The Warren organ was later moved to Central United Church, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. -Database Manager

2016-09-12 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Identified by Ian Mason, using information found in "Opening of the Great Organ in the Metropolitan Methodist Church, Toronto, Jan. 13, 1876" [leaflet]. -Database Manager


Stoplist

Typed Specification Source: from <i>English Mechanic and World of Science: No. 589</i> (July 7, 1876 Date not recorded

Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Metropolitan Methodist Church

Samuel Russell Warren   1876                    3 manuals, 50 stops, 59 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN                            SWELL ORGAN
     16' Double Open Diapason  58           16' Lieblich Gedackt      58
      8' Open Diapason         58            8' Open Diapason         58
      8' Gamba                 58            8' Viola di Gamba        58
      8' Dolce                 58            8' Aeoline               58
      8' Stopped Diapason      58            8' Stopped Diapason      58
      8' Doppel Flute          58            8' Quintadena            58
      4' Wald Flute            58            4' Octave                58
      4' Principal             58            4' Traverse Flute        58
  2 2/3' Twelfth               58        2 2/3' Twelfth               58
      2' Fifteenth             58            2' Fifteenth             58
         Mixture, 5 ranks     290               Mixture, 3 ranks     174
         Mixture, 3 ranks     174               Mixture, 2 ranks     116
     16' Posaune               58           16' Euphone               58*
      8' Trumpet               58            8' Horn                  58
      4' Clarion               58            8' Oboe                  58
                                             8' Vox Humana            58
         CHOIR ORGAN                         4' Clarion               58
     16' Bourdon               58
      8' Violon Diapason       58               PEDAL ORGAN
      8' Dulciana              58           32' Quintolophone (resultant)
      8' Clarabella            58           16' Double Open Diapason  30
      4' Harmonic Flute        58           16' Violone               30
      4' Violina               58           16' Bourdon               30
      2' Piccolo               58           16' Bell Gamba            30
     16' Contra Fagotto        58            8' Violoncello           30
      8' Cor Anglais           58*           8' Bass Flute            30
      8' Clarionet (TC)        46           16' Contra Posaune        30
         Glockenspiel          39 bars       8' Trumpet               30

      *  free reed stop from Paris

         PNEUMATIC COMPOSITION PISTONS
         8 affecting Great Organ

         COMBINATION PEDALS                     MECHANICAL REGISTERS
      1. Swell Great Forte (enclosed stops)     Swell to Great
      2. Swell Great Piano (enclosed stops)     Swell to Cohir
      3. Full Swell (less Euph. & Vox H.)       Choir to Great
      4. Swell Mezzo                            Swell Octave Conflu.
      5. Swell Piano                            Great to Pedal
      6. Full Pedal                             Swell to Pedal
      7. Pedal Mezzo                            Choir to Pedal
      8. Pedal Piano                            Tremolo to Choir
      9. Tremolo - Swell                        Bellows Signal
     10. Reversible - Swell Octaves             Engine
     11. Swell Pedal                            Reversible Piston - Sw/Gt


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2018-06-13]


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