Frank Roosevelt
Opus 415, 1888
La Iglesia de la Compania de Jesus
Benalcázar 562 y Sucre
Quito, EC
22 Ranks
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CONSOLES
Builder: Unknown
Position: Keydesk Attached
Design: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Pedalboard Type: Flat Straight
Features:
2 Manuals 30 Note Pedal3 Divisions20 Stops20 RegistersStop Layout: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Flat Jambs
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination Action: Fixed Mechanical
Control System: Unknown or N/A
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DETAILS
This instrument is: ExtantandPlayable in this location
The organ is Opus 415 in the opus list in David H. Fox, Hilborne and Frank Roosevelt (Richmond, Va.: OHS Press, 2012), 148. "Extant, in use, 1991" according to Fox, who cited Wilmer Hayden Welsh, "Organs and Earthquakes in Quito," The American Organist, June 1991, 48.
Database Manager on May 10th, 2019:
Updated by Ray Cornils, who has heard or played the organ.
The organ is used in concerts for the Quito International Festival of Sacred Music. The specification of the instrument is:
GREAT 8 Open Diapason, 8 Viola de gamba, 8 Spitz Floete, 8 Doppel Floete, 4 Octave, 4 Flute Harmonique, 2 2/3 Octave Quint, 2 Super Octave, 8 Trumpet
SWELL 16 Bourdon (with a divided stop knob that controls the bottom 12 notes), 8 Violin Diapason, 8 Stopped Diapason, 8 Dolce, 4 Hohl Floete, 4 Gemshorn, 2 Flageolet, III Cornet, 8 Oboe
PEDAL 16 Open Diapason, 16 Bourdon
Bellows signal
COUPLERS Great to Pedal, Swell to Pedal, Swell to Great, Swell to Great Octaves
Combination pedals
(located above pedal board to left of swell pedal) Swell piano, Swell forte, Full Organ,
Database Manager on September 1st, 2015:
Updated through online information from Pierret Gilles.
Database Manager on February 14th, 2014:
Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The ornately stenciled facade fills the entire width of the rear gallery, and the full height of the barrel-vaulted ceiling.
Database Manager on January 15th, 2014:
This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ.
Identified by T. Daniel Hancock, using information found in The Tracker, Fall 2013.
-- Organ is extant [2013] but Smith does not indicate if it is also playable, or if it has been modified.
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