 |
Click on images to enlarge |
St. Ambrose Episcopal Church
9 West 130th Street
New York, N.Y. 10037
St. Ambrose Episcopal Church was established in 1925 at 125 West 130th Street, now home to Beulah Baptist Church. Within a few years, St. Ambrose moved to 160 West 129th Street (now the Faith Mission Christian Fellowship). In 1936, the congregation acquired their present church, a neo-Gothic building designed by James W. Pirsson and built from 1873-75 for the Presbyterian Church of the Puritans (originally known as the Second Presbyterian Church of Harlem).
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Austin Organs, Inc.
Hartford, Conn. – Opus 2355 (1961)
Electro-pneumatic action
3 manuals, 31 stops, 27 ranks
The organ in St. Ambrose Church was built in 1961 by Austin Organs of Hartford, Conn. Austin installed the pipes and mechanism in the west transept gallery, and placed the three-manual console in the opposite gallery. |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Great Organ (Manual II) – 61 notes
|
8 |
|
Diapason |
61 |
|
|
Mixture III ranks |
183 |
8 |
|
Bourdon |
61 |
|
|
Great 16' |
|
8 |
|
Gemshorn |
61 |
|
|
Great Unison Off |
|
4 |
|
Octave |
61 |
|
|
Great 4' |
|
4 |
|
Nachthorn |
61 |
|
|
|
2 |
|
Fifteenth |
61 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Swell Organ (Manual III) – 61 notes, enclosed
|
8 |
|
Hohlflöte |
68 |
8 |
|
Trompette |
68 |
8 |
|
Viola |
68 |
4 |
|
Hautbois |
68 |
8 |
|
Voix Celeste |
68 |
|
|
Tremulant |
|
4 |
|
Principal |
68 |
|
|
Swell 16' |
|
4 |
|
Rohrflöte |
68 |
|
|
Swell Unison Off |
|
2 |
|
Flautino |
61 |
|
|
Swell 4' |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Choir Organ (Manual I) – 61 notes, enclosed
|
8 |
|
Gedeckt |
68 |
1 1/3 |
|
Quint |
61 |
8 |
|
Dolce |
68 |
8 |
|
Krummhorn [TC] |
49 |
8 |
|
Dolce Celeste |
68 |
|
|
Tremulant |
|
4 |
|
Koppelflöte |
68 |
|
|
Choir 16' |
|
2 |
|
Blockflöte |
61 |
|
|
Choir Unison Off |
|
| |
|
Sesquialtera II ranks |
122 |
|
|
Choir 4' |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pedal Organ – 32 notes
|
16 |
|
Contra Bass [unit] |
56 |
8 |
|
Gemshorn |
GT |
16 |
|
Gemshorn [ext. GT] |
12 |
8 |
|
Gedeckt |
CH |
16 |
|
Gedeckt [ext. CH] |
12 |
4 |
|
Fifteenth [ext.] |
— |
8 |
|
Principal [ext.] |
— |
16 |
|
Trompette [ext. SW] |
12 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Couplers
|
| |
|
Great to Pedal 8', 4' |
|
Choir to Great 16', 8', 4' |
| |
|
Swell to Pedal 8', 4' |
|
Swell to Choir 16', 8', 4' |
| |
|
Choir to Pedal 8', 4' |
|
Choir to Swell 8' |
| |
|
Swell to Great 16', 8', 4' |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reversibles
|
| |
|
Swell to Pedal (thumb & toe) |
|
Swell to Great (thumb) |
| |
|
Great to Pedal (thumb & toe) |
|
Tutti (thumb & toe) |
| |
|
Choir to Pedal (thumb & toe) |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Adjustable Combinations
(hold & set)
|
| |
|
| Swell Organ |
Pistons 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 (thumb) |
| Great Organ |
Pistons 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 (thumb) |
| Choir Organ |
Pistons 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 (thumb) |
| Pedal Organ |
Pistons 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 (toe) |
| Entire Organ |
Pistons 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10 (thumb & toe) 11-12-13-14 (thumb) |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Expression
|
| |
|
Balanced Pedal – Swell Organ |
|
|
|
| |
|
Balanced Pedal – Choir Organ |
|
|
|
| |
|
Crescendo Pedal |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cannarsa Organ Co.
Duncansville, Penn. (1949)
Electro-pneumatic action
4 manuals, 31 ranks
The specification for this organ has not yet been located. |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
M. P. Möller, Inc.
Hagerstown, Md. – Opus 7148 (1946)
Electro-pneumatic action
2 manuals
This organ may have been installed in the Parish House auditorium. Specifications for this organ have not yet been located. |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
George Jardine & Son
New York City (1875)
Mechanical action
2 manuals, 22 stops, 24 ranks
The original organ in the present building was built in 1875 by George Jardine & Son for the Church of the Puritans. That same year the Church of the Puritans suffered "financial embarrassment" and the organ was removed. It is believed that this organ was moved to St. Cecilia R.C. Church on East 106th Street in Harlem, where it was extant in 2010. Some pipes on the St. Cecilia organ are marked "Church of the Puritans." Following is the specification of the organ now in St. Cecilia Church. |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Great Organ (Manual I) – 58 notes
|
16 |
|
Bourdon |
58 |
4 |
|
Octave |
58 |
8 |
|
Open Diapason |
58 |
3 |
|
Twelfth |
58 |
8 |
|
Gamba |
58 |
2 |
|
Fifteenth |
58 |
8 |
|
Melodia |
58 |
|
|
Mixture, 3 ranks |
174 |
8 |
|
Doppel Flute |
58 |
8 |
|
Trumpet |
58 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Swell Organ (Manual II) – 58 notes, enclosed
|
8 |
|
Open Diapason |
58 |
4 |
|
Violina |
58 |
8 |
|
Viola |
58 |
2 |
|
Flautino |
58 |
8 |
|
Dulciana |
58 |
8 |
|
Cornopean |
58 |
8 |
|
Stopped Diapason |
58 |
8 |
|
Bassoon [bass] |
12 |
4 |
|
Flauto Traverso |
58 |
8 |
|
Oboe [TC] |
46 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pedal Organ – 27 notes
|
16 |
|
Open Diapason |
27 |
8 |
|
Violoncello |
27 |
16 |
|
Bourdon |
27 |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Couplers
|
| |
|
Great to Pedal |
|
Swell to Great |
| |
|
Swell to Pedal |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Mechanicals
|
| |
|
Swell Tremulant |
|
Bellows Signal |
| |
|
Swell Pedal |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sources:
The Diapason (Feb. 1949).
Dunlap, David. From Abyssinian to Zion: A Guide to Manhattan's Houses of Worship. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.
Mahanor, Tali. Specifications of George Jardine & Son organ (1875).
Nelson, George. Organs in the United States and Canada Database. Seattle, Wash.
Ochse, Orpha. Austin Organs. Richmond: The Organ Historical Society, 2001.
Illustrations:
Steven E. Lawson |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
