2020-11-24 - The English Lutheran Church of Our Saviour was founded on August 3, 1901, and was the first English speaking congregation of the Missouri Synod in Brooklyn. At some time, possibly around 1908 when the organ was installed, the congregation opened a brick Gothic church building on Covert Street, between Broadway and Bushwick Avenue. The church closed at an unknown time, but the building is extant and used as a V.F.W. post. The organ in Our Saviour's English Lutheran Church was built by J.W. Steere & Son of Springfield, Mass. A ledger book copy of the contract shows that Steere used "Weigle's Tubular Pneumatic System of organ action," and had a case (and organist's bench) of quarter-sawed oak with display pipes decorated in French Gold Bronze. The attached keydesk had draw stops placed in angled terraces, a roll top cover, and a concave pedalboard with radiating sharps. Wind was provided by an Orgoblo operating on 220 volts D.C. The contract was signed on September 14, 1908, and the organ was to be finished by December 1, 1908. Total price was $2190. -Jeff Scofield
Source: Larry Trupiano via the NYC AGO NYC Organ Project
Brooklyn, New York
English Lutheran Church of Our Saviour
J. W> Steere & Son 1908 2/11
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GREAT SWELL PEDAL
8' Open Diapason 61 16' Bourdon Bass 12 16' Bourdon 30
8' Melodia 61 16' Bourdon Treble 49
8' Dulciana 61 8' Open Diapason 61
4' Octave 61 8' Stopped Diapason 61
Super 8' Salicional 61
4' Harmonic Flute 61
Tremolo 8' Oboe & Bassoon 61
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