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Builder: Unknown
Position: Unknown
Design: Traditional Without Cover
Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Features:
3 Manuals (61 Notes)32 Note Pedal8 Divisions38 Stops53 RegistersElectrical Key ActionElectrical Stop Action✓ Combination Thumb Piston(s)✓ Combination Toe Piston(s)✓ Coupler Thumb Piston(s)✓ Coupler Toe Piston(s)✓ Sforzando Thumb 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: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Control System: Unknown or N/A

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This instrument is: Not Extant and Not Playable in this location

Database Manager on February 10th, 2012:

Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield.


Database Manager on March 14th, 2009:

Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- The Chancel organ was installed in a chamber to the left of the chancel, with the Great and Pedal exposed. Replaced in 2004 by Pasi Organ Builders 2/30 Op. 15.


Database Manager on March 13th, 2009:

Updated through information received via e-mail from Jeff Scofield: "The factory specifications for 8516 indicate that the chancel organ for St. Paul's is new and the gallery organ is 8516, originally installed in the Studio at St. Mary the Virgin, NYC in 1953."


Database Manager on July 12th, 2008:

Identified from factory documents and publications courtesy of Stephen Schnurr. Originally displayed at the San Francisco AGO Convention, Opus 8516 was relocated in 1958 to Saint Paul Episcopal Church (later Saint Paul and the Redeemer), Chicago, Illinois.

Related Instrument Entries: M. P. Möller (Opus 8400, 1953)

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