Better Pipe Organ Database

Unknown Builder (1890)

Paradise Presbyterian / Christadelphian Chapel / Catonsville Presbyterian: Sanctuary; rear gallery
600 Frederick Road
Catonsville, MD

Images

June, 2023 - Organ in present location (Photograph by David Storey/David Storey)

2021-11-10 - Key Desk (Photograph by David Storey/David Storey)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
18 stops
18 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Has combination trundles

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1997 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - 1997 Hilbus Organ Crawl. Compass 58/27. Foot pedals pull preset combinations. -Database Manager

2013-04-03 - Updated through online information from Steve Bartley. -- This organ was cited in The Baltimore Sun Paper 06-06-1890; Volume: CVII; Issue: 18; Page: Supplement 1, in a lengthy article about the town of Catonsville and the organ in the Presbyterian church as having come from Brown Memorial. The organ had been built by Hall & Labaugh for Brown Memorial Presbyterian, Park Ave., Baltimore in 1869. Brown replaced the Hall organ with a Steere organ in 1889. The original Hall organ was larger than the present organ and some large pedal ranks were not installed. Additionally the original case was divided in half and each half was placed in the balcony in such a way as not to block the large window. The Christadelphian church had been built as Paradise Presbyterian, later named Catonsville Presbyterian. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Christadelphian Chapel, Catonsville, MD
Unknown builder c. 1890
(Stoplist: Paul Birkner)

Great: 
Tenoroon 16'
Open Diapason 8'
Melodia 8'
Gamba 8'
Principal 4'
Flute Har. 4'
Octave Quinte 2 2/3'
Super Octve 2'
Gt. Mixture III
Oboe 8'

Swell:
Open Diapason 8'
Clarabella 8'
Dulciana Celeste 8'
Violina 4'
Piccolo 2'
Cornet 3rks

Pedal:
Open Diapason 16' (pipes missing)
Violincello 8'

Pipes from pedal Open Diapason removed to repair cracks and never returned. Boots and 
resonators of oboe lying on walkboards in 1997. Original double fold bellows with feeders 
in place as of 1997, but pump handle and mechanism gone.. Organ appears to have been moved 
from another location. Some stop names do not correspond to pipes.

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#51083†* - Hall, Labagh & Co. (1870)