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Simmons & Fisher (1856)

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

Consoles

Main

• Organ type: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
• Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
• 2 manuals
• 24 stops
• 3 divisions
• Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
• Stop action Type: Mechanical
• Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
• Pedal Type: Flat Straight
• Expression Type: Trigger/Hitch-Down Expression
• Combination action: None
• Has hitchdown couplers

Notes

2020-04-26 - The organ was still intact in 1926. Walter Lindsey goes into deep detail of the organ in The History of the Organ in the United States by Orpha Ochse. -Jonathan M. Bowen

Stoplist

F. Webber Organ Scrapbooks courtesy of the OHS Archives. The History of the Organs in the United States, Orpha Ochse. pages 136-137. Source: Found in publication 1926

Simmons & Fisher (1856)
St. Jude's Episcopal Church, Spring Garden

Great:
Diapason 8  (large scale)
Stopped Diapason Bass (1-12)
Clarabella 8
Gamba 8 (bell, large flexible ears)
Octave 4
Flute 4
Twelfth 2 2/3 (3')
Fifteenth 2
Sesquialtera 5 ranks
Eoline 16 
Trumpet Bass (1-12)
Trumpet Treble 8

Swell: (all stops tc)
Bourdon 16
Open Diapason 8
Stopped Diapason 8
Viola da Gamba 8 (very soft)
Octave 4
Twelfth 2 2/3
Flageolet 2
Hautboy 8
Tenoroon Trumpet 16
Trumpet 8
Clarion 4

Pedal:
Open Diapason 16 (very large and loud wood open that shook the room.)

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