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Geo. Stevens (& Co.) (1855)

Fort Street Presbyterian Church
631 W. Fort Street
Detroit, MI

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


Images


1876 - Fort Street church after the fire of 1876. (Photograph from an archival source: Online digital archive of the Detroit Public Library, submitted by William M. Worden/William M. Worden)

before 1876 - The Stevens organ of Fort Street Presbyterian Church (Photograph from an archival source: Online digital archive of the Detroit Public Library, submitted by William M. Worden/William M. Worden)

Consoles

West gallery


Notes

2020-04-09 - The organ was destroyed in a fire in 1876. Might the organ have been Stevens & Jewett? -Database Manager

2020-09-08 - It is a traditon at Fort Street that some pipes from the Stevens are in the present organ. If one looks at the photo of the burned church and consider that the organ was right behind the large pointed-arch window in the center of the facade, one comes to the conclusion that nothing survived from the Stevens organ. -William M. Worden


Stoplist

Source: Detroit Free Press, November 4, 1855 November 4, 1855

Geo. Stevens (& Co.) (1855)
Fort Street Presbyterian Church
Detroit, MI

This stoplist is taken from the Detroit “Free Press” of November 4, 1855. In transcribing, stops have been arranged in the assumed pitch order. It is likely that there are errors in the newspaper listing; it seems certain that the Great would have had a two-foot and one wonders if the Fifteenth listed for the Choir is, in fact, a Great stop.

GREAT

Teneroon
Open Diapason
Second Open Diapason
Keraulophon
Melodia Treble
Stopped Diapason Bass
Principal
Twelfth
Sesquialter, 
Mixture
Trumpet Treble
Trumpet Bass

SWELL

Bourdon
Open Diapason
Viol da Gamba
Stopped Diapason
Principal
Waldflute
Cornet
Trumpet
Hautboy

CHOIR

Open Diapason
Stopped Diapason Treble
Stopped Diapason Bass
Dulciana
Principal
Fifteenth
Cremona

PEDAL

No stops given

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