Whitesboro, New York
Whitesboro Presbyterian Church

John Gale Marklove, No. 139, 1883   Compasses: 58/25 


       GREAT

8'     Open Diapason           Scale 44, spotted metal; 1-12 zinc in the façade
8'     Melodia                 Fully stopped 1-18, bored stoppers 19-24, 
                                  remainder open wood with inverted mouths 
8'     Dulciana                Sc. 53, spotted metal; 1-12 zinc, 3-12 in the façade
4'     Principal               Sc. 59, spotted metal; 1-5 zinc
4'     Flute                   Stopped wood 1-12, then common metal chimney flute
                                  21 open metal trebles
2 2/3' Twelfth                 Sc. 70, spotted metal
2'     Fifteenth               Sc. 72, spotted metal
8'     Clarionet               From c13, cylindrical, spotted metal resonators,
                                  9 open metal trebles


       SWELL (Expressive)

8'     Open Diapason           Sc. 46, spotted metal; 1-12 stopped wood
8'     Stopped Diapason        From c13, tenor octave stopped wood, then
                                  common metal chimney flute with larger
                                  chimneys than Gr. 4' Flute
8'     Keraulophon             From c13, cylindrical spotted metal, keyhole
                                  tuning slots
8'     St. Diap. Bass          1-12 stopped wood
8'     Vox Celeste             Spurious, from c13. Replaced full compass
                                  1915 Morey 8' Aeoline
4'     Octave                  Sc. 62, spotted metal, 1-5 zinc, pipes marked
                                  "Violin"
2'     Piccolo                     Sc. 70, tapered spotted metal
8'     Hautboy                     1-12 free reeds with tapered wooden
                                   resonators, originally on separate 8'
                                   Bassoon" knob, now used for Celeste.
                                   Remainder replaced by Morey with a keen
                                   string in 1915; itself replaced 1980 by
                                   recycled pipework: typical Oboe construc-
                                   tion with 9 open flue trebles
       Tremolo                  1915 Morey, beater unit replacing original
                                   Marklove bellows tremulant


       PEDAL

16'    Bourdon                  Spurious pipework from several sources, 
                                   probably 1915; Replaced original 16'
                                   Double Open Diapason
16'    Gedeckt                  Spurious 1915 pipework; replaced original
                                   8' Violoncello likely a Bell Gamba like
                                   No. 128 formerly in New York Mills,
                                   destroyed by Berkshire Organ Co. when
                                   moved and rebuilt beyond recognition.

       COUPLERS
Swell to Pedal
Great to Pedal

Swell to Great


       PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell Expression       (bal.)


       ACCESSORIES
Bellows Signal


       NOTES
From Sayre Memorial Presbyterian, Utica, New York to replace
original Whitesboro organ destroyed by fire in 1979 (Marklove
No. 121). Slightly altered C.E. Morey 1915. Moved and refur-
bished by Cullie Mowers, 1980.

                                

[Received from Scot Huntington 2015-11-11.]