2009-02-25 - Organ facade (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2004-10-30 - Cost, $1000. Moved to Renssalear Polytechic Institute. -Database Manager
2014-08-28 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Identified by Scot Huntington, using information found in unpublished manuscript of local organs. -- The organ was removed in the early 1960s and replaced with an electronic imitation, with only the original façade and façade pipes remaining behind, mounted flush against the rebuilt front wall of the chancel area.<br>The interior pipes and mechanism were rebuilt and tonally revised ca. 1968 by Sidney Chase of Worcester, New York, for installation in the Chapel and Cultural Center at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. -Database Manager
2014-08-31 - Updated through online information from Scot Huntington. -- The construction date of 1873 is assigned on the opus list compiled by George Andrews' granddaughter Alice Julia Andrews ca. 1948 from then extant factory records in her possession. -Database Manager
stoplist from ca. 1964 inventory of local organs Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
South New Berlin, New York
First Baptist Church
Nameplate: Geo. N. Andrews
Utica
Built: 1873
Compass: 56/25
MANUAL (enclosed)
8' Open Diapason (t.c.)
8' Melodia (t.c.)
8' Dulciana (t.c.)
8' Keraulophon (t.c.)
8' Stop. Dia. Bass (1-12)
4' Principal
4' Flute
2' Fifteenth
PEDAL (unenclosed)
16' Bourdon
Manual to Pedal Coupler
Hitchdown expression pedal
Bellows Signal/Alarm and Pedal Check would be typically provided by Andrews,
but are not listed in this source.
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