Better Pipe Organ Database

A. B. Felgemaker Co. Opus 773 (1902ca.)

United Presbyterian Church
5th and Hickory
Mount Carmel, PA

Images

2012-04-12 - Nave and Organ Facade (Photograph by Jack Umholtz/Database Manager)

2012-04-12 - Organ Facade facing Nave (Photograph by Jack Umholtz/Database Manager)

2012-04-12 - Organ Facade facing Chancel (Photograph by Jack Umholtz/Database Manager)

2012-04-12 - Console detail - Coupler pistions (Photograph by Jack Umholtz/Database Manager)

2012-04-12 - Console detail - Pedal Board - Flat & Straight (Photograph by Jack Umholtz/Database Manager)

2012-04-12 - Console detail - Swell and Pedal Drawknobs (Photograph by Jack Umholtz/Database Manager)

2012-04-12 - Console detail - Great Drawknobs (Photograph by Jack Umholtz/Database Manager)

2012-04-12 - Console detail - Memorial Plaque (Photograph by Jack Umholtz/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
11 stops
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Has combination toe pistons

Notes

2012-04-15 - Updated through online information from Jack Umholtz. -- The instrument is used when they have an organist. A set of Deagan bar chimes was installed with its own keyboard in the 1980's, but everything except the keyboard is no longer there. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from console April 14th, 2012 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

United Presbyterian Church, Mt. Carmel, PA
1902 A. B. Felgemaker, Op. 773   2/11

Great (61 notes)
       8' Open Diapason    (metal) bottom 17 in facade
       8' Dulciana         (metal) bottom 5 in facade
       8' Melodia          (wood)
       4' Octave           (metal)

Swell (61 notes)
      16' Bourdon          (wood) Tenor C
       8' Open Diapason    (wd & metal)  bottom 12 stopped
       8' Aeolina          (metal) bottom 12 stopped
       8' Stop'd Diapason  (wood)
       8' Oboe Gamba       (metal) Tenor C
       4' Flute Harmonique (wd & metal)

Pedal (30 notes)
      16' Bourdon          (wood)

Couplers (on/off pistons between the Swell and Great Manuals)
          Swell to Great
          Great to Pedal
          Swell to Pedal

Accessories
          Tremolo
          Bellows Signal
          Wind Indicator

Pedal Movements
          Forte Com. Great Organ, Double Acting, draws Open Diapason, Melodia, and Dulciana
          Piano Com. Great Organ, Double Acting, draws Melodia and Dulciana
          Balanced Swell Pedal

Per Plaque on case                       Presented to the
                             First Presbyterian Church - Mount Carmel
                                          in Memory of
                                    Mrs. Gerturde - L - Righter 
                                June-14-1851 ----------Aug-5-1901

The Swellbox is only approx. 5 ft. high and would not have room for the bottom 
octave of the 16' Sw. Bourdon nor the bottom octaves of 8' open pipes.

The stopped basses on the Swell are not confirmed visually to be stopped, but were 
deteremined aurally by me.  The stopped basses are also not a shared bass between 
the two stops, but have individual levels of power to match the upper notes of 
the rank.

The Aeolina is tonally consistent to 8' CC, and does not audibly seem to change to stopped pipes.

 [Received from Jack Umholtz 2012-04-15.]