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Jesse Woodberry (& Co.) Opus 317 (1899)

Good Shepherd United Methodist Church
89 Hudson Avenue
Green Island, NY

Images


1997 - Organ facade at front of room, drumset not original! (Photograph from an archival source: The Tracker, 41:3 (1997) 21, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

Consoles

Main


Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1993. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Moved to new building in 1912. Restorative repairs by Carey Organ Co. c. 1993. Also known as Green Island Methodist. [1997 Upper Hudson Valley mini convention wrongly lists it as a 1912 instrument.] -Database Manager

2023-04-26 - Regarding the Woodberry organ, a history relates: In 1899 a new pipe organ built by Jesse Woodberry & Co. of Boston at a cost of $1,000 was installed in the church and paid for. At the time a two story addition was built in the rear of the church for $1000. The pipe organ had water driven bellows. So long as the water pressure was constant everything was fine, but if it dropped or failed, some poor kid would have to climb inside the organ and pump it by hand. (Later, when the new church was built [in 1911], the organ pipes were carried up Hudson Avenue by church school children. When installed in the new church it was still driven by water, and in the 40's, changed to an electric motor.) Source: "The Organs of the Upper Hudson Valley", Alan M. Laufman and Stephen L. Pinel, *The Tracker*, 41:3 (1997) 19. -Paul R. Marchesano


Stoplist

Source: The Tracker, 41:3 (1997) 21

Great Organ (CC-c4, 61 notes) Open Diapason 8 (61 pipes), Dulciana (t.c.) 8 (49 pipes), Octave 4 (61 pipes)

Swell Organ (CC-c4, 61 notes, enclosed) Salicional (t.c.) 8 (49 pipes), St. Diapason Treble (t.c.) 8 (49 pipes), St. Diapason Bass 8 (12 pipes), Violina 4 (61 pipes), Flute Harmonique 4 (61 pipes)

Pedal Organ (CCC-D, 27 notes) Bourdon 16 (27 pipes)

Couplers and mechanical registers Swell to Great, Sw. to Gr. Octaves, Great to Pedal, Swell to Pedal, Bellows Signal (now chimes)


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