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Wm. King (& Son) (1893)

New York State Reformatory: Chapel
Elmira, NY

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


Consoles

Main


Notes

2017-03-02 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. <br>Identified by Scot Huntington, citing information from this publication: Truette's The Organ, 2:8; Dec. 1893.<br>The organ had a detached and reversed console. -Database Manager

2022-04-12 - This organ is also known from the William King work list compiled by King researcher Dr. Donald R.M. Patterson, and published in The Tracker XVI:4:1972. Patterson states the organ was replaced or rebuilt by the Link Piano Co. of Binghamton, (until 1930 primarily a builder of theater organs), in 1938, and rebuilt again by R. Wilson Ross of Elmira and Pine City in 1959. No recent details of the organ's existence or fate is known. -Scot Huntington


Stoplist

Typed stoplist Source: from <i>The Organ</i>, November 1893 Date not recorded

Elmira, New York
New York State Reformatory

Wm. King & Son    1893                    3 manuals, 27 stops, 28 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN                      SWELL ORGAN
     16' Open Diapason                16' Bourdon
      8' Open Diapason                 8' Violin Diapason
      8' Gamba                         8' Salicional
      8' Melodia                       8' St. Diapason
      4' Octave                        4' Fugara
      4' Harmonic Flute                4' Flauto Traverso
  2 2/3' Twelfth                       2' Flautino
      2' Fifteenth                     8' Oboe and Bassoon
         Mixture II
      8' Trumpet                          PEDAL ORGAN
                                      16' Open Diapason
         CHOIR ORGAN                  16' Bourdon
      8' Keraulophon                   8' Violoncello
      8' Dulciana
      8' Clarabella
      4' Violina
      4' Flute d'Amour
      8' Clarionet

         Six double-acting Pedal Movements and the usual couplers
         Blown by electric motor


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2017-10-14]


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