Better Pipe Organ Database

J. H. & C. S. Odell & Co. Opus 277 (1889)

Corpus Christi (Jenkins Memorial) Catholic Church: Sanctuary; rear gallery
110 West Lafayette Avenue
Baltimore, MD

OHS convention: 1991, 2024

Images

2013-04-10 - Keydesk (Photograph by David Storey/David Storey)

2013-06-20 - Pedalboard (Photograph by David Storey/David Storey)

2011-02-14 - Nave, Balcony, and Organ Case (Photograph by David M. Storey/Database Manager)

2023 - Organ in balcony (Len Levasseur/John Roper)

2024-07-24 - Facade (Seth Daily/William Tan)

2024-07-24 - Front of church (Seth Daily/William Tan)

2024-07-24 - Facade from side aisle (Seth Daily/William Tan)

2024-07-24 - Facade closeup from side aisle (Seth Daily/William Tan)

2024-07-24 - Attendance during OHS 2024 convention (Seth Daily/William Tan)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
26 stops
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical With Pneumatic Assists
Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1997 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Historic Organs Recital 11 Jul 1991. Compass 58/27. The contract for the organ was actually between Michael Jenkins (namesake of the church) and J.H. & C.S. Odell for the sum of $4,200. -Database Manager

2005-11-20 - Updated through online information from David M. Storey. -Database Manager

2013-02-18 - Updated through online information from David M. Storey. -- Organ received OHS Historic Organ Citation, No. 133 - July 11, 1991. It hangs on the front of the organ. -Database Manager

2025-02-14 - This church has been closed by the Archdiocese of Baltimore -David Storey

Stoplist

Source: Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Date not recorded

Baltimore, Maryland
Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church (Jenkins Memorial)

J.H. & C.S. Odell, Opus 277, 1889 - Original Specifications


GREAT ORGAN (58 notes)                       COUPLERS (Drawknob)
Gr. 16 ft.    Double Open Dia                Sw. to Ped. Coupler
Gr. 8 ft.     Open Diapason                  Gr. to Ped. Coupler
Gr. 8 ft.     Gamba
Gr. 8 ft.     Doppel Flote                   Sw. to Gr. Coupler
Gr. 4 ft.     Octave
Gr. 4 ft.     Flute Harmonique
Gr. 2 2/3 ft. Twelfth                        FINGER PISTONS
Gr. 2 ft.     Fifteenth                      General                  1 - 8
Gr. 3 Ranks   Mixture
Gr. 8 ft.     Trumpet
                                             FOOT TRUNDLES
SWELL ORGAN (Expressive - 58 notes)          2, Unlabeled pedals
Sw. 16 ft.    Bourdon Treble
Sw. 16 ft.    Bourdon Bass
Sw. 8 ft.     Open Diapason                  PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Sw. 8 ft.     Stopped Diapason               Swell Expression        (bal.)
Sw. 8 ft.     Salicional
Sw. 8 ft.     Vox Celestis
Sw. 4 ft.     Wald Flute
Sw. 4 ft.     Violina
Sw. 2 ft.     Flautino
Sw. 3 Ranks   Cornet
Sw. 8 ft.     Oboe (TC)
Sw. 8 ft.     Bassoon
              Tremolo

PEDAL ORGAN (27 notes)
Ped. 16 ft.   Open Diapason
Ped. 16 ft.   Bourdon
Ped. 8 ft.    Violoncello


NOTES
2 manuals, 24 ranks, mechanical key action and pneumatic stop action, compass:
58/27. The Great Division utilizes double drawstop pneumatics to draw the stop
sliders, allowing the ingenious use of programmable mechanichal combination
pistons, as well as a piston for reversible Swell to Great Coupler. All features
well ahead of their time in 1889.

[Updated by James R. Stettner, 2021-08-13]