2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1986 -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Built for German Lutheran, Rondout, NY [this church?]. Historic Organs Recital 19 Oct 1986. -Database Manager
2014-04-26 - Updated through online information from Edwin H Myers Jr. -- The organ is in good condition and in regular use. Years ago the Oboe pipes were sent by someone to Trivo and loudened. The organ case was painted off-white at one time but stripped to natural wood in the 80's. The Dulciana pipes have numbers written on them in with a black marker pen so they might not be original to the organ. -Database Manager
Source: Taken from the console.
J. W. Steere & Sons (Opus 333, 1892) Immanuel Lutheran Church Kingston, NY 11 ranks (8 enclosed, 2 open) plus Chimes 2 Manuales 26 Note Pedale Board (Flat, Straight) Three Foot Combination Levers: Great to Ped., Great Soft, Great Full Tremolo, full organ. Great (Lower Manuale, Right Stop Jam, one stop knob removed, partially enclosed) 8' Gr. Open Diapason (facade, unenclosed) 8' Gr. Melodia Stopped Bass 8' Gr. Dulciana 2' Gr. Super Octave 4' Gr. Octave Swell (Upper Manuale, Left Stop Jam, fully enclosed) 8' Sw. Open Diapason 8' Sw. Stopped Diapason 8' Sw. Salicional 4' Sw. Flute Harmonique 8' Sw. Oboe Sw. Tremolo (full organ) Pedale (Left Stop Jam, unenclosed) 16' Ped. Bourdon Couplers (horizontal, above 2nd Manuale) 1st Manuale to Pedale 2nd Manuale to Pedale 1st to 2nd Manuale [carries through with 1st Manuale to Pedale] Chimes [Dial Control: Off, Soft, Medium, Loud. 2nd Manuale, mounted on rear of case] Notes by ALW which appeared in the church bulletin: • The Immanuel Organ was a gift from the Immanuel's Young People's Society in 1892. • It cost $1, 850.00. • The organ comprises10 Ranks with 601 pipes. • Wood pipes made of sugar maple or walnut. Metal pipes tin, lead and zinc. Originally it was hand pumped, probably with pedals on the right side of the case, with a bar for the pumper to hold on to, though it might have been a long leaver. To the right of the chimes knob, above the keyboards, there remains an embedded wood slider, half of which is painted black. It would have indicated the wind pressure to the organist so they could alert the pumper when the wind was running low. On the right stop jam is an empty draw knob hole which was probably the Great Tremolo.
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