Philipp Wirsching
Opus 129, 1914
Christian Temple
Wellsville, NY, US
16 Ranks - 914 Pipes
Instrument ID: 36777 ● Builder ID: 6825 ● Location ID: 32437
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Builder: Unknown
Position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
Design: Traditional With Roll Top
Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
Features:
2 Manuals (61 Notes)30 Note Pedal3 Divisions17 Stops28 RegistersElectrical Key ActionNo Stop Action Stop Action✓ Combination Thumb Piston(s)Stop Layout: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination Action: Blind Action
Control System: Unknown or N/A
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This instrument is: Not Extant and Not Playable in this location
Database Manager on July 14th, 2014:
Updated through online information from Scot Huntington. -- The meeting room is a large rectangle, with the pulpit and altar in the middle of the long side. The room was originally surrounded by shallow galleries on all four sides, and the organ was located in two side-by-side chambers in the gallery over the altar. When the organ was removed in 1965, the entire gallery over the altar was walled over and the chambers converted into classrooms. The action was originally tubular-pneumatic and the primaries were later converted to electro-pneumatic. The original console was in poor condition and discarded when the organ was removed in 1965.
Updated through online information from Scot Huntington. -- The meeting room is a large rectangle, with the pulpit and altar in the middle of the long side. The room was originally surrounded by shallow galleries on all four sides, and the organ was located in two side-by-side chambers in the gallery over the altar. When the organ was removed in 1965, the entire gallery over the altar was walled over and the chambers converted into classrooms. The action was originally tubular-pneumatic and the primaries were later converted to electro-pneumatic. The original console was in poor condition and discarded when the organ was removed in 1965.
Database Manager on January 4th, 2013:
Updated through online information from Scot Huntington. -- The organ was playable when removed in 1966. A proposal by the Delaware Organ Co. of North Tonawanda, New York to rebuild the organ as a two-manual, 12-stop/17-rank/33 register unit organ was rejected in favor of a custom three-manual electronic organ for the same price. The organ was sold to a private individual who placed it in storage in Alfred, New York, where it has remained ever since. The owners are relocating to assisted living, and the organ must find a new home as soon as possible or it will be discarded.
Database Manager on October 17th, 2008:
Identified by Jim Stark. The organ originally cost $3,850.00. Replaced by electronic ca. 1965.
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