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Beaufort J. Anchor (1903)

Asbury Methodist Church
Chestnut and 33rd Street
Philadelphia, PA

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)


Consoles

Main


Notes

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


Stoplist

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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