Better Pipe Organ Database

Unknown Builder (1970)

St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church: Lower Church
82-00 35th Ave.
Queens: Jackson Heights, NY

Images

Date Unknown - Organ case front and back of console (Photograph from an archival source: Tali Mahanor: New York City Organ Project website, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Date unknown - Organ case front and console (Photograph from an archival source: Tali Mahanr: New York City Organ Project website, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
2 manuals
4 stops
20 registers
1 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys 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: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons

Notes

2022-04-19 - This entry represents the moving and re-installation of a used organ in a new home. Identified from the Kilgen opus list and the New York City Organ Project website. This organ was originally built in 1920 for the lower church of St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Long Island City, New York. -Jim Stettner

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist copied from the New York City Organ Project website

Queens: Jackson Heights, New York
St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church

Geo. Kilgen & Son, Opus 3855, 1920
Unknown Builder, 1970 - Reinstallation & Additions


      GREAT (Expressive)
16    Bass Flute (TC)
8     Open Diapason
8     Stopped Flute
8     Dulciana
4     Octave
4     Flute
4     Dulcet
2     Flautina


      SWELL (Expressive)
16    Bourdon (TC)
8     Open Diapason
8     Stopped Diapason
8     Dolce
4     Flute d'Amour
2 2/3 Nazard (added 1970) 	 
2     Flageolet
III   Mixture (addeddd 1970)
      General Tremolo


      PEDAL (Expressive)
16    Bourdon
8     Open Diapason
8     Flute
8     Dolce


      PIPE ANALYSIS
16    Bourdon               97
8     Diapason              73
8     Dulciana              73
III   Mixture (added 1970) 183
  	  	
Total                      246


      COUPLERS
None


      FINGER PISTONS
Swell and Pedal 	 1 & 2
Great and Pedal          1 & 2


      TOE STUDS
None


      PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Expression              (bal.)
Crescendo               (bal.)


      NOTES
The entire organ is enclosed in one swell box, excepting the bottom
octave of the 16' Bourdon, which is divided on both sides.

Websites

New York City Organ Project: Queens - Photos, history, and specifications (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)