ca. 1973 - Organ case (Photograph from an archival source: Builder's promotional brochure, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2004-10-30 - The original builder was J. W. Steere & Son (1899, Opus458). -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1997 -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Rebuild and enlargement. New case. -Database Manager
2008-11-21 - Updated through online information from Ed Myers. -- My firm serviced this organ for a number of years. The Church closed at the end of March 2008. The building was sold soon after and is being converted into a residence/recording studio. We (Rosenberry & Myers Organbuilders) removed the organ in September 2008 and it is now in storage awaiting a new home. The Pedal action is Electric/Electro-Pneumatic. -Database Manager
Source: Stoplist: BOC 92:6 Date not recorded
Hudson, New York
St. John's Lutheran Church
J.W. Steere & Son, Op. 458, 1899
Berkshire, Op. __, 1973
GREAT (61 notes)
8' Dulciane
8' Rohrflöte
4' Prinzipal
III Mixtur (183 pipes)
8' Trompete
SWELL (Expressive) (61 notes)
8' Holzgedeckt
4' Nachthorn
2' Prinzipal
1 1/3' Quintflöte
II Sesquialtera [TC] (98 pipes)
Tremulant (adjustable)
PEDAL (30 notes)
16' Subbass
8' Prinzipalbass
8' Gedecktbass (ext., 12 pipes)
5 1/3' Quintbass (no pipes)
4' Choral bass (ext., 12 pipes)
Couplers (knobs)
Swell to Great
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal
Pedal division on electric action, and has 2 sets of 44 pipes each. The
5 1/3' Quintbass is borrored from the Subbass unit and speaks for 23 notes,
CCC-A#.
Had a 2' Super Octave in the Great and a 46-note Oboe in the Swell. New
pedal board replaced a concave, parallel 27-note clavier. Great was once
enclosed with Swell, except for Open Diapason at front. Shades were moved
back, and Great pipework brought forward. Swell chest is chromatic. Manual
chests were rebuilt with new tables, slider seals, and the addition of
built-in schwimmers. Pedal chests are new; bourdon is on the left and the
Principal unit is behind the impost in the case. Reservoir and much of the
action is new.
Great Dulciane is a mild "Echo Principal" and the open zinc basses are offset
at the treble end. The Rohrflöte has 12 old stopped wood basses and 12 open
metal trebles, and altered old string pipes with new inverted chimneys form
the middle octaves. New Mixture (CC 19-22-26; F#0 15-10-22; f#2 12-15-19;
f#3 8-12-15). New Trompete is unmitered with harmonic trebles, and 7 flue
pipes at the top.
Swell 8' rank is the old Stopped Diapason revoiced, entirely of wood pipes.
Nachthorn is former Flute Harmonique, metal. Principal and Quintflöte are
old string pipes; latter breaks back one octave on d#3. Sesquialtera is of
old pipes, 12-17 throughout; tierce breaks back in treble. New tremulant has
an electronic speed control dial next to the knob. New flue pipes were made
in Berkshire shop.
Pedal Subbass unit has 12 spotted metal trebles ofset on a chest below the
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