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Hall & Labagh New York City (1851) – installed Steinway Hall (c.1866) Mechanical action 3 manuals, 26 stops, 30 ranks In 1851, Hall & Labagh of New York City built a new organ for the new St. Thomas Church, after fire had destroyed the previous church building. The case, designed by Wills and Dudley and painted to imitate oak, was 27 feet high, 17 feet wide and 10 feet deep. When the church relocated to Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street in 1866, the vestry planned to move the organ, but in the end decided to have an entirely new organ built by Hall, Labagh & Co. The 1851 organ was placed in storage until it was sold as a temporary organ for the new Steinway Hall at Fourteenth Street and Fourth (Park) Avenue. The temporary organ remained in Steinway Hall until both were demolished in 1925.                 Great Organ (Manual II) – 56 notes 8   Large Open Diapason 56 2 2/3   Twelfth 56 8   2nd Scale Open Diapason 56 2   Fifteenth 56 8   Stopped Diapason 56   Sesquialtra, 3 ranks 168 4   Principal 56 8   Trumpet treble (TC) 44 4   Night Horn 56 8   Trumpet bass 12           Swell Organ (Manual III) – 56 notes, enclosed 16   Bourdon 56 4   Principal 56 8   Open Diapason 56   Cornet, 3 ranks 168 8   Stopped Diapason 56 16   Double Trumpet 56 8   Keraulophon 56 8   Hautboy 56           Choir Organ (Manual I) – 56 notes 16   Dulciana 56 4   Principal 56 8   Stopped Diapason treble 44 4   Flute 56 8   Stopped Diapason bass 12 2   Fifteenth 56 8   Viol d'Amour 56 8   Cremona 56             Pedal Organ – 25 notes 16   Double Open Diapason 25         16   Double Dulciana 25                         Couplers     Great to Pedal         Choir to Pedal         Swell to Great         Choir to Great         Swell to Choir
Sources:      Ogasapian, John. Organ Building in New York City: 1700-1900. Braintree: The Organ Literature Foundation, 1977. Specifications of Hall & Labagh organ (1851-52).      Steinway, Theodore E. People and Pianos: A Pictorial History of Steinway & Sons. New York: Amadeus Press, 2005.      Wright, J. Robert. Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue. New York: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company and Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, 2001. Illustration:      Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online: Interior of Steinway Hall (Bolles, Brooklyn, c.1890).
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