Better Pipe Organ Database

John Roberts (1866)

Union Methodist Episcopal Church
Fourth Street and Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA

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

Consoles

Keydesk

Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
18 stops
24 registers
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Manual compass: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 20 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Combination action: None
Has coupler trundles

Notes

2025-01-22 - Identified in list of recent organs by the builder published in The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) · Sat, Mar 26, 1870 · Page 2 -Paul R. Marchesano

2025-01-22 - Additional mention of organ (but not the builder) in Philadelphia Inquirer 1866. See DOCUMENTS tab. -Paul R. Marchesano

Stoplist

Pedal Check. Bellows Signal. Source: Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center 1866

Swell Open Diapason 8 (Tenor C), Dulciana 8 (Tenor C), Stopped Diapason Bass 8, Principal Bass 4, Stopped Diapason Treble 8 (Tenor C), Principal Treble 4 (Tenor C), Fifteenth 2, Oboe 8 (Tenor C), Tremulant

Great Open Diapason 8, Stopped Diapason Bass 8, Melodia Treble 8, Viol di Gamba 8 (Tenor C), Principal 4, Twelfth 3, Fifteenth 2, Flute 4 (Tenor C), Trumpet 8 (Tenor C)

Pedal Bourdon 16

Swell to Great 8, Swell to Pedal 8, Great to Pedal 8

Documents

(1866-01-27) Organ concert. Announcement -Paul R. Marchesano
(1866-02-03) Opening of the new organ. -Paul R. Marchesano
(1866-01-01) January 1866 advertisements for the Grand Organ Concert and "Description of the Organ, from the Reuss Collection, Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center, St. Charles Seminary, Overbrook, Pennsylvania (undated). Courtesy of Stephen L. Pinel -Paul R. Marchesano