Better Pipe Organ Database

Hall & Labagh (1851)

Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church
15th Street, between Irving Pl. & Third Ave.
New York City: Manhattan, NY

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

Consoles

Main

2 manuals
19 stops
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical

Notes

2017-12-31 - "The Swell Organ is very comprehensive, and is contained in a double box, giving an unusual crescendo and diminuendo. "The action is extended so that the organist can face the choir and yet the machinery works easily and perfectly. The stops of remarkable beauty are the Open Diapasons, Viol da gamba, Cremona, Trumpet, Hautboy, Dulciana and Night Horn. The Bourdon, or Double Stopped Diapason, is so fine an addition that no organist, having once used it, would willingly dispense with it. The Sesquialta [sic] contains the flat 21st, giving the minor 7th with the common chord, a peculiarity never before introduced in this country, and but recently in Europe. " Mr. Thomas Hall â€¦ prefers smoothness of tone and adaptedness to church use, before mere power and screaming noise.â€ --Choral Advocate and Singing Class Journal (Sept. 1851) -Database Manager

2017-12-31 - In 1858, the congregation moved uptown to Lenox Hill, erecting a church on the corner of Madison Avenue and 73rd Street. At this time the congregation was renamed Phillips Presbyterian Church, in honor of the Rev. William Wirt Phillips (1796-1865), a notable leader in the Presbyterian Church. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist Source: Choral Advocate and Singing Class Journal (Sept. 1851), courtesy Larry Trupiano Date not recorded

New York City, New York
Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church

Hall & Labagh   1851
2 manuals, 19 stops, 22 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN
      8' Open Diapason
      8' Stopped Diapason
      8' Dulciana
      4' Principal
      4' Night Horn
  2 2/3' Twelfth
      2' Fifteenth
      8' Cremona

         SWELL ORGAN
     16' Bourdon
      8' Open Diapason
      8' Stopped Diapason
      8' Viol da gamba
      4' Principal
  2 2/3' Twelfth
      2' Fifteenth
         Sesquialta [sic], 4 ranks
      8' Trumpet
      8' Hautboy
         Tremulant

         CHOIR BASS (bass to Swell)
      8' Open Diapason
      8' Stopped Diapason
      4' Principal

         PEDAL ORGAN
     16' Open Diapason

         COUPLERS
         Great & Swell
         Pedals & Great
         Pedals & Choir


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2017-12-31]

Websites

Phillips Presbyterian Church - (New York City Chapter AGO Organ Project website) Stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)