Sebastian Matthaus Gluck, New York, NY, has built a new organ, Opus 6, for The Evangelical
Lutheran Church of Christ, New York, NY. All carpeting and padding were removed
from the church, adding two seconds of reverberation, and the organ site was
relocated to the front of the church, framing the window. The transept was
restored to return the building to its original cruciform, and a movable altar
and console were provided. Portions of the mahogany case of the previous
100-year-old tracker organ were reassembled as part of the new case design,
with carvings and tuning collars enameled in colors matching those found in the
Good Shepherd window. The architectural design of the organ takes its
inspiration from the image of an angel in flight, the burnished pipes of
Praestandt representing the wings.
The electropneumatic action is operated through a solid
state relay which is contained within the base of the case, along with the
blower and large double-rise regulator, which delivers a windpressure of
31/2" to the pipework. Spotted pewter and burnished zinc are the pipe
materials, except for the 32 pine pipes of the Infrabas, which stand against
the back wall of the chancel. The instrument was dedicated on the Feast of
Pentecost, 1995, with a service of Communion and a brief concert by the
builder.
WERCK
16'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Graavo
8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Praestandt
8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Holpijp
8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Spitspijp
4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Octaaf
2'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Nachthoorn
Hexquialter
III-IV
Mixtuur
III-IV
8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Schalmei
Andover Organ Company, Methuen, MA, has restored an 1870 William B.D. Simmons organ for First Parish Congregational Church, Yarmouth, ME. The organ was purchased from a Methodist church in the Germantown section of Philadelphia by the Organ Clearing House. Andover spent eight months rebuilding, restoring and cleaning the organ, now enlarged to 25 stops and 1300 pipes. The firm built a new console with all new key and stop actions, a new reservoir for the Great and Pedal, and schwimmer for the Swell. The Great was restored without any tonal alterations. Two stops were added to the Swell (Octavin 2' and Celeste), and two stops were tonally altered (the Violin 4' was revoiced as as Principal 4' and the Cornet II was re-pitched); the Pedal division was enlarged from two to six stops. The organ was installed within the wooden casework of an 1842 George Stevens organ. Mechanical design was by Ben Mague; John Morlock designed and supervised the tonal revision in consultation with the organ committee and organist Nancy Wines-De Wan. Ray Cornils played the dedicatory recital.
The church's first organ, c. 1870, was also built by
Simmons, but was sold in 1915. It was replaced with a larger two-manual
Kimball, Smallman and Frazee organ. By the mid-1970s this second organ was
suffering significant mechanical problems and was rebuilt by Dwight Leighton
under the supervision of Peter Perkins.
GREAT
16'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Tenoroon
8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Open
Diapason
8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Melodia
8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Dulciana
4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Octave
4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Chiminee
Flute
22/3'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Twelfth
2'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Fifteenth
III
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Mixture
8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Trumpet
SWELL
8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Open
Diapason
8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Stopped
Diapason
8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Salicional
8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Celeste
4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Violin
4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Flute
Harmonic
2'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Octavin
II
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Cornet
8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Oboe
PEDAL
16'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Open
Diapason
16'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Subbass
8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Principal
4'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Octave
(ext)
16'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Trombone
8'
style='mso-tab-count:1'> Tromba
(ext)
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