Better Pipe Organ Database

Hilborne L. Roosevelt Opus 4 (1873)

Mount St. Vincent Academy: Chapel
Riverdale Ave. & 261st St.
New York City: The Bronx (Riverdale), NY

Images

2018-02-01 - Organ Case (Photograph by Sebastian M. Glück/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
16 stops
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Trigger/Hitch-Down Expression
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Has hitchdown couplers

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1998. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - [Shown as Yonkers on Roosevelt list.]. Restored c. 1998 by Carey Organ Co. -Database Manager

2012-02-16 - Updated through online information from Thomas M. Fierro. -- The Sisters of Charity know the value of this Historic Instrument but lack the funds to keep it in good playing condition. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed Specification Source: Steven E. Lawson Date not recorded

Riverdale (The Bronx), New York
College of Mount St. Vincent

Hilborne L. Roosevelt   No. 4   1873         2 manuals, 16 stops, 18 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN                         SWELL ORGAN
     16' Double Melodia         58        8' Viola di Gamba (TC)    46
      8' Open Diapason          58        8' Doppel Flöte           58
      8' Dulciana               58        8' Stopped Diapason Bass  12
      8' Clarabella (1-12 Dul)  46        4' Flute Harmonique       58
      4' Octave                 58        2' Piccolo                58
      2' Fifteenth              58        8' Oboe                   58
         Mixture III           174*
      8' Cornopean              58           PEDAL ORGAN
         * replaced by 8' Gamba          16' Double Open            30
                                         16' Bourdon                30
                                          8' Violoncello            30


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2018-06-11]