Pipe Organ Database

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Rudolf von Beckerath (1967)

Location:

St. Michael's Episcopal Church
225 W. 99th Street at Amsterdam Avenue
New York City: Manhattan, NY 10025 US
Gallery
Organ ID: 197

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Status and Condition:

  • This instrument's location type is: Episcopal and Anglican Churches
  • The organ has been altered with the introduction of a digital/computer memory system.
  • The organ's condition is good, in regular use.
We received the most recent update for this instrument's status from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.

Technical Details:

  • Chests: Slider
  • 55 ranks. 2,732 pipes. 4 divisions. 3 manuals. 38 stops.
All:
  • Chest Type(s): Slider chests
We received the most recent update for this division from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.
Main:
  • Manuals: 3
  • Divisions: 4
  • Stops: 38
  • Manual Compass: 56
  • Pedal Compass: 32
  • Key Action: Mechanical connection from key to chest (tracker, sticker or mix).
  • Stop Action: Electric connection between stop control and chest.
We received the most recent update for this console from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.
Database Manager on February 13, 2015:

Updated by Robert Huddleston, based on personal knowledge of the organ. -- I was the organist in 1967 when the organ was installed, and also when the one-manual-and-pedal chapel organ was bought, and which functioned as the only organ for two or three years while waiting for the big one.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Database Manager on January 01, 2011:

Updated through online information from Connor Annable.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Database Manager on October 30, 2004:

Status Note: There 1998

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Site visit by Steven E. Lawson: Open In New Tab Typed specification
We received the most recent update for this stoplist from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.

Instrument Images:

Nave, Balcony, and Organ Case: Photograph by Eric J. Gastier. Taken on 2002-11-11

Organ Cases: Photograph by Eric J. Gastier. Taken on 2004-10-03

Keydesk: Photograph by Eric J. Gastier. Taken on 2004-10-03

Chapel Interior: Photograph by Steven E. Lawson. Taken on 2013-09-09

Church interior to rear and organ case: Photograph by Steven E. Lawson. Taken on 2013-09-09

Church interior, gallery and organ case: Photograph by Steven E. Lawson. Taken on 2013-09-09

Console: Photograph by Steven E. Lawson. Taken on 2013-09-09

Console: Photograph by Steven E. Lawson. Taken on 2013-09-09

Church exterior: Photograph by Steven E. Lawson. Taken on 2013-09-09

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