Better Pipe Organ Database

Wm. Johnson & Son Opus 638 (1885)

First Baptist Church / Williamsburg Christian Church
Lee Avenue & Keap Street
New York City: Brooklyn, NY

OHS convention: 1969

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

Images

2001 - Pipe detail (Photograph from an archival source: Organ Clearing House. Courtesy John Bishop, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

2001 - Organ case, angle view (Photograph from an archival source: Organ Clearing House. Courtesy John Bishop, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

2001 - Organ case in loft (Photograph from an archival source: Organ Clearing House. Courtesy John Bishop, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

Consoles

Main

2 manuals
25 stops
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1980. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Originally First Baptist Church of Williamsburg. Compass 58/30. -Database Manager

2010-11-20 - Updated through online information from Connor Annable. -Database Manager

2013-01-25 - Updated through online information from Richard Johnson. -- There is a YouTube video of this organ's dismantling in 2001 by the Organ Clearing House made prior to the building's demolition. As of January, 2013, the organ is in storage and a new home is being sought. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist (Source: New York City AGO website); edits from 1969 OHS Handbook Source: Source not recorded

Williamsburg Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Brooklyn, New York
Johnson & Son, Opus 638, 1885
OHS ID 6952

GREAT (Manual I – 58 notes) 

16	Bourdon	
8	Open Diapason 	
8	Dulciana	
8	Viola da Gamba 	
8	Melodia		
4	Octave	 	 	 	 
4	Flauto Traverso
2-2/3	Twelfth
2	Fifteenth
	Mixture III (174)
8	Trumpet
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
SWELL (Manual II – 58 notes, enclosed) 

16 	Lieblich Gedeckt Bass	 (12)
16 	Lieblich Gedeckt Treble (46)
8 	Open Diapason 	
8 	Salicional	
8 	Dolcissimo (46)
8 	Quintadena			 		 
8	Stopped Diapason
4	Fugara
4	Flute Harmonique
	Cornet Dolce II (116)
8	Oboe & Bassoon
	Tremulant
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
PEDALE (30 notes)

16 	Double Open Diapason (wood)
16 	Bourdon	(wood) 	 	 
8	Violoncello
        Pedal Check
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
COUPLERS 

 	Swell to Great 	 	 	 		 
  	Swell to Pedale	 	 	 	 	 
 	Great to Pedale	 	 	 	 	
	Great to Pedal reversible 
	Pedale check
	Bellows signal

Mechanical action
2 manuals, 25 stops, 27 ranks

[Recieved online from T. Daniel Hancock, 04-09-2012]

Websites

Williamsburg Christian Church - Brooklyn - Stoplist, history, photographs (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)