Better Pipe Organ Database

Unknown Builder (1930)

First Baptist Church: Sanctuary; front
Newfane, NY

Note: Not playable. (in this location)

Images

2015-09-26 - Organ case in front (Photograph from an archival source: Church website, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

June 2009 - Church exterior (Photograph by Pubdog (Wikipedia - Public Domain), submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Chancel

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
10 stops
13 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2021-12-20 - This entry represents the installation of a used pipe organ. according to the church website, *"1930 — A used pipe organ is purchased for $1,500 from the Seventh-Day Baptist Church of Alfred, N.Y. Though no longer in use, the huge organ pipes are a prominent backdrop behind the lighted hanging cross at the front of the sanctuary."* -Jim Stettner

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist copied from a related OHS Database entry

Newfane, New York
First Baptist Church

Steer & Turner, No. 211, 1885
Unknown Builder, 1930 - Moving and Reinstallation


FIRST MANUALE  (Great Organ)
1. 16 Ft. Bourdon Treble      (t.c.)  Full intonation
2. 16 Ft. Bourdon Bass        (1-12)
3.  8 Ft. Open Diapason               Largest pipes in front, full and bold
4.  8 Ft. Dulciana                    Delicate
   Enclosed with Swell              
5.  8 Ft. Melodia              (t.c.) Rich and mellow
6.  8 Ft. Stopd. Diapason Bass (1-12)
7.  4 Ft. Octave

SECOND MANUALE  (Swell Organ)

8.  8 Ft. Salicional           (t.c.) or Viola, Delicate and Crisp
9.  8 Ft. Stopd. Diapason      (t.c.) Clear and full
10. 8 Ft. Stopd. Diapason Bass (1-12)
11. 4 Ft. Flute Harmonique            Brilliant
12. 8 Ft. Oboe                 (t.c.) Plaintive

PEDALE ORGAN

13. 16 Ft. Bourdon                    Deep and pervading

MECHANICAL REGISTERS

14. Manuale Coupler
15. I.  Manuale to Pedale Coupler
16. II. Manuale to Pedale Coupler
17. Tremulo (Swell Organ)
18. Blowers Signal
    Wind indicator over Manuals for organist.

PEDALE MOVEMENTS

1. Forte Combination Pedal Ist Manuale
2. Piano Combination Pedal Ist Manuale
3. Balanced Swell pedal

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#50800†* - Steer & Turner [J.W. Steer] Opus 211 (1885)