2018-05-11 - Information from Hillgreen, Lane & Co. opus list, compiled by Bynum Petty<br> Contract: January 1940<br> Additions to Hillgreen, Lane Op. 820 (1925) as follows:<br> • Install a 4-rank Echo division<br> • Install Deagan Class A Chimes<br> • Move the organ console<br> Price: $1,225 -Database Manager
Source: Contracts 1925, 1940
Hillgreen, Lane & Co. (Opus 1047, 1925, enlarged 1940)
First Congregational Church
Wellsville, New Yorl
Three-manual horseshoe console
All ranks 73 notes and independent, unless specified.
This organ was a rebuild and enlargement of a two-manual tracker reputed to have been a second-hand Hook & Hastings, but which now seems unlikely.
The annotations are taken from the 1925 factory contract and NEW refers to the stops added at that time, all other stops being recycled from the former tracker.
Console moved as part of 1940 enlargement.
GREAT
8 ft. Open Diapason
8 ft. Gamba
8 ft. Doppel Flute (NEW)
8 ft. Dulciana
4 ft. Octave
Great Tremolo
Great to Great 16', 4', Unison Off
Swell to Great 16', 8', 4'
Choir to Great 16', 8', 4'
Echo on Great (1940)
SWELL
16 ft. Bourdon
8 ft. Open Diapason
8 ft. Salicional
8 ft. Voix Celestes (t.c., present Sw. Octave)
8 ft. Gedeckt
4 ft. Flute Traverso (present Gr. Flute)
2 ft. Flautina (present Gr. Fifteenth)
8 ft. Tuba (NEW)
8 ft. Oboe
Swell Tremolo
Swell to Swell 16', 4', Unison Off
CHOIR
8 ft. Open Diapason (English, NEW)
8 ft. Melodia (present Gr. Melodia)
8 ft. Dulciana (NEW)
8 ft. Unda Maris (t.c., NEW)
4 ft. Flute d'Amour (NEW)
8 ft. Clarinet (NEW)
Chimes (NEW, Deagan Class A, 20 tubes)*
Choir Tremolo
Choir to Choir 16', 4', Unison Off
Swell to Choir 16', 8', 4'
Echo on Choir (1940)
* The 1940 contract also lists the addition of a set of Chimes, so either the originals were replaced, or were never installed after the 1925 contract was drawn up, and which specified new Choir Chimes.
ECHO (1940 addition)
8 ft. Fern Flute
8 ft. Viole Aetheria
8 ft. Vox Angelica (t.c.)
8 ft. Vox Humana
Echo Tremolo
Echo to Echo 16', 4', Unison Off
PEDAL
16 ft. Open Diapason (44 pipes)
16 ft. Cathedral Bourdon (1940, prepared in 1925)
16 ft. Lieblich Gedeckt (Swell Bourdon borrow)
8 ft. Flute (ext. 16 ft. Diapason)
Great to Pedal 8'
Swell to Pedal 8', 4'
Choir to Pedal 8'
Echo to Pedal 8' (1940)
Piston combinations: Mechanical cam system, hold and set
1-3 Great/Pedal
1-4 Swell/Pedal
1-3 Choir/Pedal
Couplers Cancel
Toe studs:
Sforzando with indicator
Great to Pedal reversible
Balanced Pedals:
Choir/Great Expression
Swell Expression
Echo Expression (added 1940)
Crescendo Pedal with indicator
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