Church of St. Finbar
(Roman Catholic)
Benson Avenue at Bay 20th Street
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11214
www.stfinbarbrooklyn.org
Organ Specifications:
Present building (since 1912)
• Rodgers Organ Company electronic
► II/22 Reuben Midmer & Sons (1912)
Second building (1893-1912)
• II/15 Unknown Builder (c.1893)
First building (1881-1893)
• unknown |
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Rodgers Organ Company
Hillsboro, Ore.
Digital tone generation
Sometime before 1976, the 1912 Midmer & Sons pipe
organ was taken out of service and an electronic instrument
manufactured by the Rodgers Organ Company was installed. |
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Reuben Midmer & Sons
Brooklyn, N.Y. – Opus 2867 (1912)
Tubular-pneumatic action
2 manuals, 24 registers, 22 stops, 22 ranks
The second organ in the present church was built in 1912 by Reuben Midmer & Sons
of Brooklyn. A typed specification noted that there was a Kinetic blower and
the console was detached. In
1976,
organ
builder
Larry
Trupiano
of
Brooklyn
visited
this
organ
and noted the manual chests had slider action, the pedal chest was electro-pneumatic,
and there had been water damage. The pipes were still in place in 2002. |
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Great Organ (Manual I) – 61 notes
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16 |
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Open Diapason * |
61 |
8 |
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Doppel Flute |
61 |
8 |
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Open Diapason (1-17 in facade) |
61 |
4 |
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Octave |
61 |
8 |
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Viola di Gamba |
61 |
4 |
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Flute d'Amour |
61 |
8 |
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Dulciana |
61 |
8 |
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Trumpet |
61 |
8 |
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Melodia |
61 |
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* 1-12 stopped wood
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Swell Organ (Manual II) – 61 notes, enclosed
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16 |
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Bourdon |
73 |
4 |
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Principal |
73 |
8 |
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Open Diapason |
73 |
4 |
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Flute Harmonique |
73 |
8 |
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Salicional |
73 |
8 |
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Cornopean |
73 |
8 |
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Aeoline |
73 |
8 |
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Vox Humana (blank) |
73 |
8 |
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Vox Celeste (TC) |
61 |
8 |
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Oboe |
73 |
8 |
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Stopped Diapason |
73 |
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Pedal Organ (Augmented) – 30
notes
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16 |
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Open Diapason (wood) |
42 |
16 |
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Lieblich Gedeckt |
SW |
16 |
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Bourdon |
30 |
8 |
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Flute (fr. 16' Open) |
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Couplers
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Great to Pedal |
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Swell to Swell 4', 16' |
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Swell to Pedal |
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Great to Great 4', 16' |
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Swell to Great 16', 8', 4' |
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Pedal Resultant, 32' |
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Piston Combinations
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Pistons 0-1-2-3 |
Affecting Great and Pedals |
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Pistons 0-1-2-3-4 |
Affecting Swell and Pedals |
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Accessories
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Swell Tremulant |
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Grand Crescendo Pedal |
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Wind indicator for organist |
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Crescendo indicator for organist |
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Great to Pedal, reversible |
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Balanced Swell Pedal |
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Sforzando Pedal (full organ) |
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Unknown Builder
Mechanical key action, tubular-pneumatic pedal
2 manuals, 15 stops
The Ledger Book of Reuben Midmer & Sons refers to service work (for the period 1904-10) on a II/15 unidentified tracker with a tubular pedal. Specifications for this organ have not yet been located. |
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Sources:
Pelletreau, William S. "The Catholic Church on Long Island," A History of Long Island From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1905.
Reuben Midmer & Sons Ledger Book entries (1904-10) for an unidentified organ in St. Finbar's Church. Courtesy Larry Trupiano.
St. Finbar Catholic Church website: www.stfinbarbrooklyn.org
Trupiano, Larry. Specification of Reuben
Midmer & Sons organ.
Illustrations:
Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection. Exterior (1905).
New York Big Apple Images. Exterior (2013) (credit: Matthew X. Kiernan). Used by permission. |
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