Richmond Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church / Upper West Arts Center: Sanctuary / Auditorium
525 West Ferry Street
Buffalo, NY
Images
2009 - Choir gallery in front with organ case and keydesk (Photograph by Clinton Brown Co. on the website, "Buffalo as an Architectural Museum.", submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
c 1900 - Organ sited in choir loft. (Photograph from an archival source: Vintage postcard, submitted by Rick Erickson/Rick Erickson)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
- Console position: Keydesk Attached
- 3 manuals
- 4 divisions
- Key action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
- Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
- Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Notes
2017-05-03 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ.
<br>Identified by J. A. Hefner, listing this website as a source of information: http://www.buffaloah.com/a/wferry/525/hist.html<br>http://www.buffaloah.com/a/wferry/525/ph/index.html.<br>Photo at http://www.buffaloah.com/a/wferry/525/ph/index.html<br>Attached keydesk - according to the site (http://www.buffaloah.com/a/wferry/525/hist.html), the organ has tubular-pneumatic action and 2111 pipes.<br>The building is now the Upper West Arts Center, but it appears the organ is still there [articles as recent as 2016 mention a historic pipe organ]. -Database Manager
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