2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1977. -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - New bldg. in 1836. In west gallery.Compass 58(GG-f3, no GG#)/25(CC-c). Probably a short compass swell. Cose $5000. [Rebuilt by L. C. Harrison in 1870's?] Unused for many years in 1957. Pipework vandalized by 1977. [An earlier small organ was sold to the General Seminary for $400.] [The stoplist in The Churchman is quite close to that given in 1927 by Farnam] -Database Manager
2012-04-06 - Updated through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -- The "American Musical Directory," published by Thomas Hutchinson, New York, 1861, reports "Size of organ--2 banks of keys, 22 stops, 2 octaves pedals. Built by H. Erben; revoiced by Engelfried, in 1860." -Database Manager
Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Saint Peter's Episcopal Church, New York
Henry Erben, 1843
Tracker 1:4 July 1957 p.4 Churchman 31 Mar 1838
(Farnam, 1927) Ch. stated as 7 stops, but only 6 listed)
Gt: Gt: 12-Stops
8' Open Diapason large open diapason
8' Violoncello 2nd open diapason
8' Melodia stopped diapason
8' Stopped Diapason clarabella
4' Principal night horn
4' Night Horn principal
2' Twelfth twelfth
2' Fifteenth fifteenth
Cornet, 8-12-15 sesquialtra 3ranks
Sesquialtera, 19-22 cornet 4ranks
8' Trumpet trumpet
clarion
Sw:: Sw: -9 Stops
16' Bourdon open diapason
8' Open Diapason stopped diapason
8' Stopped Diapason dulciana
8' Dulciana flute
4' Principal principal
4' Flute fifteenth
................... [sic] cornet 3ranks
8' Trumpet trumpet
8' Hautboy hautboy
Tremulant
Ch: Ch: 7-Stops
8' Open Diapason open diapason
........................[sic] viol de gamba
........................[sic] stopped diapason
4' Principal flute
4' Flute principal
2' Fifteenth [one not listed - presumably the fifteenth]
8' Cremona cremona
Ped. Ped. 3-Stops
16' Double Open Diapason double open diapason
16' Double Dulciana open diapason
16' Violoncello principal
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