2020-12-23 - The organ used for the 1881 Music Festival was built in 1874 by Hilborne L. Roosevelt for St. Vincent Ferrer Church. Roosevelt chose to move this organ to the Seventh Regiment Armory, located diagonally across Lexington Avenue from the church, rather than provide a new one, "there being features about it which commended themselves specially for festival purposes, particularly the Double Open Diapason (32-feet tone) of the Pedal organ." The organ (as set up in the church) measured 32 feet across, 18 feet deep, and nearly 40 feet high. Roosevelt used tubular action for the Swell and Pedal organs, and the pneumatic (Barker) lever was applied to the Great organ and its couplers. This organ was the third three-manual to be built by the Roosevelt firm. -Paul R. Marchesano
Via NYD AGO Pipe Organ Project Source: Steve Lawson
Hilborne L. Roosevelt (1881)
1881 Music Festival / Seventh Regiment Armory
New York: Manhattan, NY
Originally St. Vincent Ferrer Roman Catholic Church (1874)
GREAT ORGAN (II, 58 notes) SWELL (III, 58 notes, enclosed)
16 Double Open Diapason 16 Bourdon
16 Double Gemshorn 8 Open Diapason
8 Open Diapason 8 Keraulophon
8 Violin 8 Rohr Flute
8 Melodia 4 Principal
4 Principal 4 Flauto Traverso
4 Flute Mixture IV
2 Wald Flöte 8 Cornopean
Mixture IV 8 Oboe
Cornet IV-V 8 Vox Humana
8 Trumpet Tremulant
4 Clarion
PEDAL (27 notes)
CHOIR (I, 58 notes) 32 Double Open Diapason
8 Doppel Flöte 16 Open Diapason
8 Gamba 16 Double Gamba
8 Dolce 16 Bourdon
8 Concert Flute 8 Violoncello
4 Viol d'Amour 16 Bombard
4 Rohr Flute 8 Tuba
2 Piccolo
8 Clarionette
COUPLERS
Swell to Great Unison, Octave
Choir to Great
Swell to Choir
Great to Pedal
Choir to Pedal
PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Tutti Pedal, to bring out all stops of Great Organ
Swell Organ. Pedal Organ and Great to Pedal, and Swell to Great Coupler
Pedal to throw off loud stops
Piano pedal
Bellows signal
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