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CONSOLES
Builder: Unknown
Position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
Design: Unknown
Pedalboard Type: Flat Straight
Features:
1 Manuals (61 Notes)17 Note Pedal8 StopsMechanical (Unknown) Key ActionMechanical Stop ActionStop Layout: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Expression Type: No Enclosed Divisions
Combination Action: None
Control System: Unknown or N/A
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DETAILS
This instrument is: Extant and Playable in this location
From - The Charleston Mercury March 17, 1832, pg. 2
Mr. Henry Erben, Organ Builder of New York having just completed the erection of a delightful and well built Organ in the Baptist Church of this city, has contracted with the Vestry of St. Philip's Church to erect one for them on a very extensive scale. This Organ will contain nearly fifteen hundred pipe, twenty three stops three rows of keys a separate swell and pedals; it will of course contain four wind chests, and will cost $3500. .....................
Database Manager on September 1st, 2007:
Updated through online information from Stephen Hall. -- According to the church's history brochure, the hand pumped bellows were retained when the electric blower was added.
Database Manager on August 30th, 2007:
Updated through online information from Stephen Hall. -- There are no pedal stops, pulldown only. Wicks organ company added electric pulldowns in the 1990s. The instrument may be played from the Wicks console as an Antiphonal division.
Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
From St. Finbar's R.C. Church 1880.
Related Instrument Entries: Wicks Organ Co. (Opus 4847, 1969)
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