Better Pipe Organ Database

E. & G. G. Hook Opus 488 (1869)

Woodside Presbyterian Church
10 Erie Street
Troy, NY

OHS convention: 1967

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

Images

1988-07-01 - Central facade; side view (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1988-07-01 - Facade detail: Pedal pipes, right side of case (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1988-07-01 - Church exterior (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1988-07-01 - Ornate door hinges (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1988-07-01 - Organ (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1988-07-01 - Central facade and ornate swellbox (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1988-07-01 - Keydesk (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
19 stops
16 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Trigger/Hitch-Down Expression
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1997 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - [On Hook list as Woodside Episcopal.] Compass 58/27. Combination pedals were removed when balanced Swell pedal replaced rachet pedal. Altered by Andover 1967. -Database Manager

2005-07-22 - According to a story in the July 19 edition of the Albany, New York <i>Times Union</i>, the church closed in 2003, ownership of the organ reverted to the Presbytery, and a Mennonite Congregation in Kansas bought the organ. It was removed from Woodside Presbyterian July 18, 2005. -Database Manager

2007-06-02 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Specification from Charles Kegg Date not recorded

Troy, New York
Woodside Presbyterian Church

E. & G.G. Hook   Opus 488   1869
2 manuals, 19 registers, 16 stops, 17 ranks 
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            GREAT ORGAN  (CC-a3, SB notes)
        16' Bourdon (TC)         46
         8' Open Diapason        58
         8' Dulciana (TC)        46
         8' St. Diapason Bass    12
         8' Melodia (TC)         46
         4' Octave               58
         2' Fifteenth            58
            Mixture 2 ranks     116
         8' Trumpet              58

            SWELL ORGAN  (CC-a3, SB notes; enclosed)
         8' Open Diapason (TC)   46
         8' Keraulophon (TC)     46
         8' St. Diapason (TC)    46
         8' St. Diapason Bass    12
         4' Violina              58
         4' Flute Harmonique     58
         8' Oboe (TC)            46
         8' Bassoon (Bass)       12
            Tremulant

            PEDALE ORGAN   (CCC-D, 27 notes)
        16' Sub Bass             27
         8' Flöte                27

            COUPLERS
            Swell to Pedale
            Great to Pedale
            Swell to Great

            MECHANICALS
            Swell Tremulant
            Swell Pedal (hitch-down)
            Bellows Signal

            PEDAL COMBINATIONS
            Two Great combination pedals

[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2016-03-31]
[ed.: Corrections from The Tracker, 41:3 (1997) 26. 2023-04-27]

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