Better Pipe Organ Database

Wm. A. Johnson Opus 43 (1855)

Westminster Presbyterian Church
1601 Park @ Turtle Streets
Syracuse, NY

OHS convention: 2014

Images

2013-10-10 - Nave, Gallery, and Organ Case (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
2 manuals
18 stops
20 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 17 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Trigger/Hitch-Down Expression

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1991 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Building was First Ward Presbyterian, then North Presbyterian. Enlarged, probably by Johnson, c.1865. Restored c. 1991 by Kerner & Merchant. -Database Manager

2014-07-14 - Updated through online information from Will Headlee. -- Organ will be heard at OHS 2014 Syracuse Pipe Organ Holiday. -Database Manager

2021-04-23 - The organ was announced as available in an email from John Bishop of the Organ Clering House on April 22, 2021. -Jim Stettner

2021-08-27 - Exhibited in the 1980 OHS convention -Paul R. Marchesano

Stoplist

http://www.kernerandmerchant.com/organs_westminsterpresbyterian_syracuseny.html Source: Updated from Organ Clearing House photos April 23, 2021 - Updated

Syracuse, New York
Westminster Presbyterian Church

William A. Johnson, Opus 43, 1855


GREAT (56 Notes)                             COUPLERS (Drawknob)
[8]   Open Diapason              56          Pedals and Swell base
[8]   Dulciana             (tf)  39          Pedals and Great
[8]   Melodia Treble       (tf)  39
[8]   Stopᵈ Diapason Base        17          Swell to Great
[4]   Principal                  56          Swell to Great 8va
[4]   Wald Flute           (tc)  44
Gr. 3 Twelfth                    56
Gr. 2 Fifteenth                  56          FOOT TRUNDLES
                                             Undocumented

SWELL (Expressive - 56 Notes)
[16]  Bourdon              (tc)  44          PEDAL MOVEMENTS
[8]   Open Diapason        (tc)  44          Swell Expression     (hitch-down)
[8]   Salicional           (tc)  44
[8]   Quintadena           (tc)  44
[8]   Stopᵈ Diapason       (tc)  44
[8]   Stopᵈ Diapason Base        12
[4]   Fugara.                    56
[4]   Flute Harmonique           56          ACTION: Mech. Key & Stop
[III] Dolce Cornett             168
[8]   Oboe and Bassoon           56          VOICES: 18
      Sw. Tremulant
                                             STOPS: 20

PEDAL (17 Notes)                             RANKS: 20
16'   Double Open Diapason       17
16'   Bourdon                    17          PIPES: 965

Pedal Check


[Received from Bert Wisgerhof 2013-12-23.]
[Corrected & updated by James R. Stettner; 2021-04-23.]