Better Pipe Organ Database

Ferguson & Chapman (2004)

U.S. Miltary Academy West Point: Old Cadet Chapel (Bldg. 689, cemetery)
689 Washington Road
West Point, NY

Images

2017-10-13 - Retained and rebuilt 1966 Wicks console (Photograph by Tim Link, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2017-10-13 - Organ case in rear gallery (Photograph by Tim Link, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2017-10-13 - Chapel exterior (Photograph by Tim Link, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Gallery

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
2 manuals
16 stops
39 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Computerized/Digital
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons

Notes

2021-10-27 - Identified from online information from Grant Chapman and the Central Hudson Valley AGO Chapter website. -- The core of this organ is from Belle-Skinner Hall at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. It was a 1965 Gress-Miles rebuild of the previous 1931 Kimball. -Jim Stettner

2021-10-27 - The console of the 1966 Wicks organ previously installed in the chapel was retained and rebuilt/upgraded with a new solid state operating system. -Jim Stettner

Stoplist

Source: Grant Chapman via Craig Williams April 2004

West Point, New York
U.S. Miltary Academy West Point - Old Cadet Chapel

Ferguson and Chapman, 2004


GREAT ORGAN

1)  8'     Principal              61 pipes
2)  8'     Rohrflöte              61 pipes
3)  8'     Viola            (Sw)  --
4)  8'     Viola Celeste    (Sw)  --
5)  4'     Octave                 61 pipes
6)  4'     Blockflöte             61 pipes
7)  2 2/3' Nasard           (Sw)  --
8)  2'     Super Octave           61 pipes
9)  2'     Blockflöte             12 pipes
10) 1 3/5' Tierce           (Sw)  -- from #22
11) III-IV Mixture               232 pipes
12) 8'     Trumpet          (Sw)  -- from #24


SWELL (Expressive)

13) 16'    Gedeckt          (tc)  -- from #14
14) 8'     Gedeckt                61 pipes
15) 8'     Viole                  61 pipes
16) 8'     Viole Celeste    (tc)  49 pipes
17) 4'     Principal              61 pipes
18) 4'     Gedeckt                12 pipes from #14
19) 2 2/3' Nasard                 61 pipes
20) 2'     Octave                 12 pipes from #17
21) 2'     Nachthorn              61 pipes
22) 1 3/5' Tierce                 61 pipes
23) 1 1/3' Larigot                12 pipes from #19
24) 16'    Trumpet                12 pipes from 25
25) 8'     Trumpet                61 pipes
26) 8'     Oboe             (tc)  49 pipes
27) 4'     Trumpet                12 pipes from #25


PEDAL
28) 32'    Resultant              --
29) 16'    Bourdon          (Gt)  12 pipes ext. from #2
30) 8'     Principal        (Gt)  -- from #1
31) 8'     Gedeckt          (Sw)  -- from #14
32) 5 1/3' Quint            (Sw)  12 pipes ext. from #19
33) 4'     Octave                 32 pipes
34) 4'     Blockflöte       (Gt)  -- from #6
35) 2'     Super Octave           12 pipes from #33
36) II-III Mixture          (Gt)  24 pipes ext. from #11
37) 16'    Trumpet          (Sw)  -- from #24
38) 8'     Trumpet          (Sw)  -- from #25
39) 4'     Oboe             (Sw)  -- from #25


COUPLERS
Swell to Pedal                     8
Great to Pedal                     8

Swell to Great                     8