St. Stanislaus Museum
700 Howdershell Rd.
Florissant,
MO
63031 US
Organ ID: 4870
Updated through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -- According to Petering, 1979, "the one known Metz organ, a small one-manual, four-rank instrument, which had been located in the basement of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church in St. Louis, and since moved to the Jesuit Museum at St. Stanislaus Seminary in north St. Louis County, is marked with the date December 1845, and is identified as 'Op. 1'. This instrument has features that are similar to the early building practices of Pfeffer. Often a separate unison bass stop provided the lowest octave for all the 8' stops of a small organ. In this example, as well as many of those built by Pfeffer, the two 8' stops, Gedackt and Gumba [sic], share the lowest octave by channeling instead of by a unison bass stop. As was also done by Pfeffer, the 2' Octave is voiced much louder than the 4' Principal. There is a characteristic four-leaf clover design cut out of the support for the key desk which is found in so many of Pfeffer's organs. Thus there are some ties between these two builders."
We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.Status Note: There 1998
We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.OHS Historic Organs presented 1997 (authorized earlier, but plaque misplaced). In basement of St. Joseph's R. C., Biddle St., St. Louis many years. Original location not certain. Restored c. 1980 by James Warner.
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