Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2004-10-30 - The original builder was Hall & Labagh (1849). -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - From St. Mark's Episcopal (downtown). The organ was moved to Asbury c. 1903 by Beaufort Anchor, replacing an H. Knauff organ. To Raymond Brunner organ shop (in storage). -Database Manager
Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Asbury Methodist, Philadelphia, PA 1868 Hall & Labagh/1881Roosevelt/c. 1901-1903 Beaufort Anchor (Stoplist: 1960 OHS convention) Great (unenclosed) 16' Sub Octave Diapason 8' Open Diapason #1 8' Open Diapason #2 8' Stopped Diapason 8' Gamba 4' Octave 4' Waldflute 3' Twelfth 2' Fifteenth II Mixture #1 III Mixture 8' Trumpet 4' Clarion Swell 16' Sub Octave Diapason 8' Open Diapason 8' Stopped Diapason 8' Keraulophon 8' Vox Celestes 4' Octave 4' Rohrflute 2' Fifteenth V Cornet 8' Horn 8' Hautboy 4' Clarion Tremulant Choir (unenclosed) 16' Gamba 8' Open Diapason 8' Stopped Diapason 8' Dulciana 4' Octave 4' Harmonique Flute 4' Rohrflute [TC] 2' Flautina 8' Clarinet 8' Oboe Orchestral [TC] Pedal 16' Open Diapason 16' Stopped Diapason 16' Bell Gamba 12' Quint 8' Violincello II Mixture #2 16' Trombone Couplers C-P G-P S-P S-G C-S C-G Combination Action, Toe Studs Pedal Piano and Forte Swell Piano and Forte Great Piano and Forte Mixtures: Great 2 rank contains 15th and 19th, and breaks at middle C Great 3 rank contains 17th, 19th, and 22nd Swell Cornet breaks at middle C. A final Memorial Concert was held, and a recording made c. 1988. Photo album made. There was a two-cylinder double-acting water engine still "attached" to the basement wall at Asbury, possibly the same engine that powered the feeders when the organ was at St. Mark's. During its final years, only one of the two 6 x 9 foot reservoirs in the organ was functional (releathered in the 1970's). During its years at Asbury, several tonal changes were made. Cared for by U.S. Pipe Organ Company during the late 1960's thru 1970's. Speaking pipes in the case had not been reconnected to the windchests during the 1901 move (probably the bottom octave of the 8' Choir Diapason). Numerous mixture pipes were relocated, and ranks from the 5-rank Swell Cornet were also discovered. Apparently, the only pipes missing are several octaves of the 4' Great Wald Flute and several ranks of the original Choir mixture (replaced by a rank of "cheap" reed pipes, later discarded because they fell apart). It may be the second-oldest extant 3-manual in the United States (the oldest being at Round Lake).
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