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Builder: Unknown
Position: Unknown
Design: Traditional With Roll Top
Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Features:
3 Manuals (61 Notes)32 Note Pedal4 Divisions36 Stops41 RegistersElectrical Key ActionElectrical Stop Action✓ Crescendo✓ Combination Thumb Piston(s)✓ Combination Toe Piston(s)✓ Sforzando Toe Piston(s)

Stop Layout: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination Action: Remote Pneumatic/Mechanical Capture
Control System: Unknown or N/A

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This instrument is: Extant and Playable in this location

Jeff Scofield on November 24th, 2020:

After only thirteen years on Lenox Road, the congregation commissioned Mayers, Murray & Phillip of B. G. Goodhue Associates to design a new edifice on Ditmas Avenue between 21st and 22nd Streets. The neo-Gothic building was octagonal in shape and featured a pyramidal copper roof surmounted by a cupola. The completed church was dedicated on February 10, 1929. In 1973, the congregation merged with the Flatbush Presbyterian Church, located nearby at 494 East 23rd Street near Foster Avenue. The combined congregations are known today as the Flatbush Church of the Redeemer, using the Flatbush building. The Redeemer building was eventually demolished.

For their new building on Ditmas Avenue, the congregation commissioned the Aeolian-Votey Company to move and rebuild the 1896 Müller & Abel organ from the old church. In the factory specifications, Aeolian-Votey states that they would provide "an entirely new (3-manual and pedal) console of the most modern type, the dimensions confirming to the A.G.O. and N.A.O. requirements. Stops controlled by means of Draw Knobs and tilting tablets, with combinations adjustable at the keyboard and visibly affecting the registers." The company rebuilt the Swell, Choir and Great chests with electro-pneumatic action, extending those of the Swell and Choir to 73 notes. All of the old pipes were brought to the factory for revoicing and repairing, retaining the resonators and parts of old pipes where they were usable. The reed stops were replaced with new pipes, and a Cornopean was added to the Swell where there had been none before. The Swell Spitzflöte was replaced with a Voix Celeste. Aeolian-Votey also raised the pitch to standard "Philharmonic A-440; C-523.3" and raised the pressure to 5" throughout. Archer Gibson dedicated the organ on February 12, 1929.

Webpage Links: NYC AGO NYC Organ Project

Related Instrument Entries: Müller & Abel (Opus 14, 1896)

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