Better Pipe Organ Database

Andover Organ Co. Opus 83 (1978)

Church of the Epiphany, Episcopal: Nave, rear gallery
781 Main St.
Danville, VA

OHS convention: 2001

Images

Unknown - Ruckpositiv and Main Organ Case (1978) (from Cover of Organ Dedication program; image courtesy of James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Unknown - Gallery and Organ Cases (Andover promotional photo; image courtesy of James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Unknown - Builder's Nameplate (1978) (From the Dedicatory Recital program; image courtesy of James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

2000-05-10 - Nave, Balcony, and Organ Cases (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Detached Keydesk (Mechanical Action)
3 manuals
39 stops
39 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Balanced Tracker)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: None
Has hitchdown couplers

Notes

2004-10-30 - Gallery organ. -Database Manager

2007-09-05 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Information from the Andover shop files. Located in the rear gallery with the Choir on the gallery rail. Cases of stained red oak with gilded carved pipe shades. Console of cherry and walnut. Keys of bone and ebony. Drawknobs of rosewood, ebony, and boxwood with oblique faces of hand-engraved ivory. The Tremolo, Zimbelstern, and Birdola are all activated by hitch-down pedals, and the Zimbelstern and Birdola are wind-driven. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Taken from Andover Organ Co. literature ca. 1979

Danville, Virginia
Church of the Epiphany, Episcopal

ANDOVER ORGAN COMPANY, Opus 83, 1978 - Original Specifications


GREAT                                        SWELL (Expressive)
16    Bourdon                                8     Violin Diapason
8     Open Diapason                          8     Celeste
8     Stopped Diapason                       8     Chimney Flute
4     Principal                              4     Principal
4     Chimney Flute                          2     Fifteenth
2 2/3 Quinte                                 II    Sesquialtera
2     Fifteenth                              III   Mixture
2     Flute                                  II    Cymbal
1 3/5 Tierce                                 16    Fagotto
IV    Mixture                                8     Trumpet
16    Clarinet                               4     Clarion
8     Trumpet

                                             CHOIR (in Rückpositiv position)
PEDAL                                        8     Gemshorn
16    Open Diapason                          8     Stopped Diapason
16    Bourdon                                4     Principal
8     Octave                                 4     Flute
4     Chorale                                2     Fifteenth
2     Chorale                                1 1/3 Nineteenth
16    Trombone                               4/5   Twenty-fourth
8     Trumpet                                III   Sharp
                                             8     Hautboy


COUPLERS (Hitch-down)                        HITCH-DOWN PEDALS
Swell to Pedal                               6, unison couplers
Great to Pedal                               Tremolo 
Choir to Pedal                               Birdola
                                             Zimbelstern
Swell to Great
Choir to Great
                                             PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell to Choir                               Swell Expression             (bal.)


ACTION: Mech. Key & Stop     VOICES: 39     STOPS: 39     RANKS: 48     PIPES: 


NOTES
Located in the rear gallery with the Choir on the gallery rail. Cases of stained
red oak with gilded carved pipe shades. Console of cherry and walnut. Keys of bone
and ebony. Drawknobs of rosewood, ebony, and boxwood with oblique faces of hand-
engraved ivory. The Tremolo, Zimbelstern, and Birdola are all activated by hitch-
down pedals, and the Zimbelstern and Birdola are wind-driven.



Church of the Epiphany, Episcopal
781 Main St.
Danville, VA. 24541
(434) 792-4321