Better Pipe Organ Database

A. B. Felgemaker Co. Opus 559 (1892)

Reformed Church / Trinity United Church of Christ
602 Main St.
Watsontown, PA

Images

Unknown - Church exterior (Vintage postcard (ca. 1910); image courtesy of James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

2012-02-02 - Organ Façade (Photograph by Jeff Harvey/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
12 stops
14 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1974 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Restored McFarland, Visscher, & Co. 1972. -Database Manager

2020-04-09 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- According to information on the www.mywatsontown.com website, <i>"On March 20, 1892 at a congregational meeting a committee was appointed for the purpose of purchasing an organ for the church. The committee consisted of George W. Hess, J.W. Muffly, U.S.G. Peifer, Harry F. Algert, and John Keller. The organ was built by the Erie firm of A.B. Felgemaker. The total cost of the instrument was approximately $1,600 and the dedicatory recital was held on December 17, 1892 with Professor F.K. Hill of Sunbury at the organ."</i> -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from console 12-17-13 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

<u>GREAT</u>                                        <u>COUPLERS (Drawknob)</u>
8'  Open Diapason                            Swell to Pedal
8'  Melodia                                  Great to Pedal
8'  Dulciana
8'  Unison Bass                              Swell to Great
4'  Octave
4'  Flute d'Amour
2'  Fifteenth                                <u>FOOT TRUNDLES</u>
                                             Undocumented
<u>SWELL (Expressive)</u>
8'  Open Diapason
8'  Aeoline                                  <u>PEDAL MOVEMENTS</u>
8'  Stopd Diapason                           Swell Expression             (bal.)
8'  Stopd Diapason Bass
4'  Flute Harmonique
8'  Oboe  (tc)                               <u>MISC. CONTROLS</u>
    Tremolo                                  Motor
                                             Bellows Signal
<u>PEDAL</u>
16' Bourdon

Pedal Check


 [Received from Larry Pruett 2013-12-21.]