Ferris & Stuart
1858
St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church / Basilica
232 Chapel Street
Norfolk, VA, US
36 Ranks - 1,750 Pipes
Instrument ID: 467 ● Builder ID: 2025 ● Location ID: 457
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CONSOLES
Builder: Unknown
Position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
Design: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
Pedalboard Type: Flat Straight
Features:
3 Manuals (56 Notes)25 Note Pedal33 Stops36 RegistersMechanical (Unknown) Key ActionMechanical Stop ActionStop Layout: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination Action: None
Control System: Unknown or N/A
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DETAILS
This instrument is: Extant and Playable in this location
Sound Organ Design of Virginia Beach landed the roughly $200,000 [restoration] job. [Otto] Pebworth, a pipe organ pro from Staunton, was hired for the hands-on. Test blowers were lugged in to see if the organ would still hold together under pressurized wind. -- from an article on the restoration project, The Virginian-Pilot, Dec 20, 2020, article accessed online.
Database Manager on April 16th, 2008:
Updated through online information from Richard J Maryman. -- The organ is complete, with some damage sustained to pipes in the Gread and Pedal divisions. Choir and Swell are intact, unharmed. There is much debris in organ resulting from recent renovation work on church's steeple. Blower has no live current to motor, is located aprox. 40 to 50 feet above organ in tower, would need to be removed by crane. Oil in blower bearings congealed, bearings on poor condition. will need a thorough cleaning to make playable, reservoirs are not original, some casework is altered. -- manual compass of 56 notes
Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
Status Note: There 1979
Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
[Incorrectly believe to have been exhibited at the Philadelphia International Exhibition 1851.]
Webpage Links: After 40 years of silence, historic organ sings , After 50 years, organ restored
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