Better Pipe Organ Database

W. W. Kimball Co. (1900)

St. Jerome Catholic Church
230 Alexander Avenue
New York City: The Bronx, NY

Images

2011-01-28 - Church exterior (Photograph by Thomas J. Shelley via the NYC AGO NYC Organ Project, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2011-01-28 - Console (Photograph by Sebastian Glück via the NYC AGO NYC Organ Project, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2011-01-28 - Gallery, chambers and pipe façades (Photograph by Sebastian Glück via the NYC AGO NYC Organ Project, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
35 stops
36 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2020-11-11 - From the NYC AGO NYC Organ Project: The organ in the second St. Jerome's Church was originally built by the W.W. Kimball Company of Chicago. Kimball installed the pipes and mechanisms behind two cases that flank the stained-glass windows in the gallery. On the left side are the Great and Choir divisions, with speaking façade pipes from the Great 16' and 8' Diapasons, and on the right side are the Swell and Pedal divisions. Kimball employed tubular-pneumatic action, a feature that proved to be unreliable in many of that firm's organs of the period. At an unknown time, the organ was mechanically rebuilt by the Estey Organ Company of Brattlesboro, Vt. Estey installed electro-pneumatic action and the three-manual console that exists today. After more than a century of use and water damage the organ was nearly unplayable. In 2012 the church contracted with Glück Pipe Organs of New York City to restore various components of the historic instrument. During restoration work, the date "August 16, 1900" was found written inside one of the windchests. -Jeff Scofield

Stoplist

Source: Sebastian Glück via the NYC AGO NYC Organ Project

       Bronx, New York
       Catholic Church of St. Jerome

       Kimball   1900   3/37
       ___________________________________________________

       GREAT (*unenclosed)             SWELL

   16' Dbl Open Diapason  61 *     16' Bourdon Bass     12
    8' Open Diapason      61 *     16' Bourdon Treble   49
    8' Doppel Flute       61        8' Open Diapason    61
    8' Gamba (tin)        61 *      8' Stopped Diapason 61
    8' Dulciana           61        8' Salicional       61
    4' Octave             61        8' Unda Maris       61
    4' Flute Harmonic     61        8' Aeoline          61
2 2/3' Octave Quint       61        4' Flute Traverso   61
    2' Super Octave       61        4' Violina          61
  III  Mixture 15-17-19  183        2' Flautino         61
    8' Trumpet            61        8' Cornopean        61
       Unison Off                   8' Oboe             61
                                    8' Vox Humana       61
       CHOIR                           Tremolo
                                       Sub
    8' Geigen Principal   61           Unison Off
    8' Melodia            61           Super
    8' Dolce              61
    4' Flute d'Amour      61           PEDAL
    4' Fugara             61
    2' Harmonic Piccolo   61       16' Open Diapason    30 w
    8' Clarinet           61       16' Bourdon          30 w
       Tremolo                 10 2/3' Quint            30 w
       Unison Off                   8' Cello            30
       Super                       16' Trombone         30 w

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         [Received from Jeff Scofield November 11, 2020]