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Church of Our Lady of Sorrows
(Roman Catholic)
Pitt Street near Stanton Street
New York, N.Y. 10002
Organ Specifications:
► II/27 Thomas H. Wood (1926)
• II/ Wisconsin Pipe Organ Factory (c.1897)
• unknown (c.1867) |
The Church of Our Lady of Sorrows was established in 1867 by the Capuchins. Located on Pitt Street in the area once known as Kleindeutschland (Little Germany), the church served as a national parish for the many thousands of German families who arrived in New York in great numbers after 1848. The church was built from 1867-68 to designs by Henry Engelbert—who combined Victorian, Byzantine and Romanesque styles—and was dedicated by Archbishop McCLoskey on September 6, 1868. By the early 1910s, the Germans had moved uptown and in their place were throngs of newly-arrived Italian immigrants. Still later, the Italians moved out and the area demographic became largely Hispanic. By 2000, masses were offered in Spanish and English, and the church is also known as Nuestra Señora de los Dolores. |
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Thomas H. Wood
Corona, N.Y. (1926)
Tubular-pneumatic action
2 manuals, 27 stops, 27 ranks
In 1926, Thomas H. Wood enlarged the existing organ, but the extent of the alterations is not known. Located in the rear galley, the organ is installed in divided twin cases of an ornate Romanesque design that are more typical of c.1865 than 1895. The pneumatic console is in the center of the gallery, near the rail. |
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Great Organ (Manual I)
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Double Open Diapason |
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4 |
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Rohr Flute |
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8 |
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Open Diapason |
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4 |
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Harmonic Flute |
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8 |
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Stopped Diapason |
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4 |
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Octave |
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8 |
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Dolce Celestina |
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2 |
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Octave |
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8 |
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Gross Gamba |
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Mixture III ranks |
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8 |
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Melodia |
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Swell Organ (Manual II)
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16 |
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Gedacht |
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4 |
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Lieblich Gedacht |
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8 |
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Geigen Principal |
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4 |
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Wald Flute |
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8 |
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Aeoline |
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2 |
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Piccolo |
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8 |
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Salicional |
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8 |
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Vox Humana |
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8 |
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Voix Celeste |
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8 |
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Oboe |
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8 |
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Flute Traverso |
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Swell Tremolo |
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Pedal Organ
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16 |
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Open Diapason |
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8 |
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Open Flute [ext.?] |
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16 |
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Sub Bass |
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8 |
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Violoncello [ext.?] |
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16 |
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Violon |
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Couplers
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Swell to Pedal |
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Swell to Great |
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Great to Pedal |
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Swell to Great Octaves |
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Accessories
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Swell Pedal |
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Two composition ratchets |
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Crescendo Pedal |
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Wisconsin Pipe Organ Factory
Schleisingerville, Wis. (c.1897)
Tubular-pneumatic action
2 manuals
Sometime around 1897, an organ was installed by the Wisconsin Pipe Organ Factory of Schleisingerville, Wisconsin. Owned by Bernard Schaefer, the firm would be known later as B. Schaefer & Sons Company, and the Schaefer Organ Company. Most of the organs built by Schaefer were installed in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois, but a partial opus list of the Schaefer Organ Company includes two organs in New York City: Our Lady of Sorrows at 213 Stanton Street, and Our Lady Queen of Angels in Harlem. Both of the New York City churches were founded by the Capuchin Order. Specifications for this organ have not yet been located. |
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Sources:
Capuchin Franciscans web site: http://www.capucin.org
Dunlap, David W. From Abyssinian to Zion: A Guide to Manhattan's Houses of Worship. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.
Haberstroh, Richard. The German Churches of Metropolitan New York: A Research Guide. New York: The New York Genealogical & Biographical Society, 2000.
The Keraulophon (Nov.-Dec. 1979), pub. by New York City Chapter of Organ Historical Society. Specifications of Thomas H. Wood Organ (1926). Courtesy Jonathan Bowen.
Shelley, Thomas J. The Bicentennial History of the Archdiocese of New York 1808-2008. Strasbourg: Éditions du Signe, 2007. |
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