St. John the Evangelist Church
533 Humboldt Street
Rochester, NY
Images
Date unknown - Nave interior with organ in rear gallery (Rochester Churches: http://dorchurches.com/johnevanroch/Jim Stettner)
Date unknown - Nave interior with organ in rear gallery (Rochester Churches: http://dorchurches.com/johnevanroch/Jim Stettner)
Date unknown - Nave interior with organ in rear gallery (Rochester Churches: http://dorchurches.com/johnevanroch/Jim Stettner)
Date unknown - Church exterior (Rochester Churches: http://dorchurches.com/johnevanroch/Jim Stettner)
2025-05-25 - Newly engraved pedal stoptabs showing added MIDI tab and omitted 8' Dolce tab (Terry Keach/Mark A. Smith)
Notes
2025-05-20 - This entry represents undefined work on an existing organ. Identified through online information from Mark A. Smith (May 16, 2025). -Jim Stettner
Stoplist
In 2012, Kerner & Merchant replaced the organ's electro-pneumatic switching with an electronic system, the electro-mechanical combination action with an electronic system, provided new stop rails with all new stop tabs engraved with a non-Tellers font, and added MIDI to each division. There is now a transposer. No pipework was added. Source: Taken from the console on 5/15/2025
Great (The GREAT division is enclosed in a case to the right of the rear stain glass window. The division contains 3 straight ranks and one unit rank. The PEDAL division is enclosed with the GREAT. GREAT stop tabs are located at the right of the lower row.) Open Diapason 8, Dulciana 16 (1-12 from SWELL Stopped Diapason unit. 13-73 from GREAT Dulciana unit. (In the original Tellers specification, there was no borrow from the Stopped Diapason.) ), Melodia 8, Dulciana 8, Principal 4, Dulcet 4, Fifteenth 2, Twelfth 2 2/3, Tierce 1 3/5, Blank, Blank, MIDI 3 (The MIDI system has record/playback capability. ), Tremolo (The Tellers pneumatic tremolo in the GREAT division has been replaced with a motorized unit. It is unknown who did this work or when. )
Swell (The SWELL division is enclosed in a case to the left of the rear stain glass window. The division contains 4 straight ranks and one unit rank. SWELL stop tabs are centered in the upper row above the SWELL keyboard.) Violin Diapason 8, Bourdon 16, Stopped Diapason 8, Salicional 8, Vox Celeste tc 8 (1-12 are silent), Flute d'Amour 4, Nazard 2 2/3, Piccolo 2 (from St Diap unit), Trumpet 8, Blank, Blank, Tremolo (The Tellers pneumatic tremolo in the SWELL division has been replaced with a motorized unit. It is unknown who did this work or when. ), MIDI 1 (The MIDI system has record/playback capability. )
Pedal (The PEDAL division is enclosed with the GREAT. PEDAL stop tabs are located at the left of the lower row. ) Lieblich Gedeckt 16, Sub Bass 16 (Enclosed with the GREAT division pipework), Major Flute 8, Dolce Flute 8, Flute 4, MIDI 2
Great to Great 16, Swell to Great 8, Great to Great, Great to Great 4, Swell to Great 16, Pedal to Great 8 (This coupler has been disabled by the builder at the request of the organist. ), Swell to Great 4, Swell to Swell 16, Swell to Swell, Swell to Swell 4, Great to Pedal 8, Great to Pedal 4, Swell to Pedal 4, Swell to Pedal 8
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