Better Pipe Organ Database

Midmer-Losh Inc. (1929)

St. Joseph Catholic Church
1949 Bathgate Avenue
New York City: The Bronx, NY

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

Images

2013 - View of Swell box behind facade (Photograph by Andrew Simco, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

2013 - Console view from bass end (Photograph by Andrew Simco, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

2013 - Close view of facade, looking upward (Photograph by Andrew Simco, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

2013 - Close view of facade (Photograph by Andrew Simco, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

2011-08-21 - Church exterior (Photograph by Thomas J. Shelley via the NYC AGO NYC Organ Project, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2011-08-21 - Console (Photograph by Tom Fiero via the NYC AGO NYC Organ Project, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
3 manuals
24 stops
36 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys on Angled Jambs
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 tutti toe pistons

Notes

2020-11-11 - From the NYC AGO NYC Organ Project: The following specification was recorded (July 23, 1938) by Louis F. Mohr & Co., an organ service concern in the area. Mohr wrote that the organ had electric action, a detached console built to A.G.O. standards (61 manual keys, 32 pedal keys), and was duplexed. The organ was installed behind an oak case with 21 silver front pipes. Midmer-Losh indicated in their Ledger Book (June 1929) that the organ cost $13,000. Mohr did not include pipecounts, but the following are suggested, based on similar Midmer-Losh organs of the period. Following the closure of the church in August 2015, the organ was removed to storage in Staten Island. -Jeff Scofield

2021-06-11 - On June 10, 2021, some parts of the organ, including chests and some pipework have been removed to Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey as potential core materials for badly water damaged sections of the organ there. -Paul R. Marchesano

Stoplist

Source: Thomas M. Fiero via the NYC AGO NYC Organ Project

    The Bronx, New York
    Catholic Church of St. Joseph

    Midmer-Losh   1929   3/26
    _________________________________________________

    GREAT (enclosed)             SWELL

16' Open Diapason    61      16' Bourdon           61
 8' Open Diapason    12       8' Open Diapason     73
 8' Gross Flute      61       8' Stopped Diapason  12
 8' Doppel Flute     73       8' Viol d'Orchestre  73
 8' Viol d'Gamba     73       8' Salicional        73
 8' Gemshorn         73       8' Viol Celeste      61
 4' Principal        12       4' Violina           73
 4' Flute            12       4' Flute             12
 2' Piccolo          12   2 2/3' Nazard             7
 8' Tuba             73       2' Flageolet          5
    Tremulant               III  Cornet           183
    Sub                       8' Oboe              73
    Unison Off                8' Vox Humana        73
    Super                        Tremulant
                                 Sub
    CHOIR                        Unison Off
                                 Super
 8' Geigen Principal 73
 8' Concert Flute    73          PEDAL
 8' Dolcissimo       73
 8' Unda Maris       61      32' Resultant         --
 4' Fugara           73      16' Open Diapason     32
 4' Flute a Chiminee 73      16' Bourdon           32
 8' Clarinet         73      16' Lieblich Gedeckt  SW
    Tremulant                 8' Octave            12
    Sub                       8' Flute             12
    Unison Off               16' Tuba Profunda  GT 12
    Super

     [Received from Jeff Scofield November 11, 2020]