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Jesse Woodberry (& Co.) (Opus 317, 1899)

Location:

Good Shepherd United Methodist Church
89 Hudson Avenue
Green Island, NY 12183 US
Organ ID: 6225

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Status and Condition:

  • This instrument's location type is: Methodist Churches
  • The organ has an unknown or unreported status.
  • The organ's condition is unknown.
We received the most recent update for this instrument's status from Paul R. Marchesano on April 26, 2023.

Technical Details:

  • Chests: Slider
  • 9 ranks. 430 pipes. 2 manuals. 9 stops.
All:
  • Chest Type(s): Slider chests
We received the most recent update for this division from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.
Main:
  • Manuals: 2
  • Stops: 9
  • Key Action: Mechanical connection from key to chest (tracker, sticker or mix).
  • Stop Action: Mechanical connection between stop control and chest.
We received the most recent update for this console from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.
Paul R. Marchesano on April 26, 2023:

Regarding the Woodberry organ, a history relates: In 1899 a new pipe organ built by Jesse Woodberry & Co. of Boston at a cost of $1,000 was installed in the church and paid for. At the time a two story addition was built in the rear of the church for $1000. The pipe organ had water driven bellows. So long as the water pressure was constant everything was fine, but if it dropped or failed, some poor kid would have to climb inside the organ and pump it by hand. (Later, when the new church was built [in 1911], the organ pipes were carried up Hudson Avenue by church school children. When installed in the new church it was still driven by water, and in the 40's, changed to an electric motor.) Source: "The Organs of the Upper Hudson Valley", Alan M. Laufman and Stephen L. Pinel, The Tracker, 41:3 (1997) 19.

We received the most recent update for this note from Jim Stettner on April 27, 2023.
Database Manager on October 30, 2004:

Status Note: There 1993.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Database Manager on October 30, 2004:

Moved to new building in 1912. Restorative repairs by Carey Organ Co. c. 1993. Also known as Green Island Methodist. [1997 Upper Hudson Valley mini convention wrongly lists it as a 1912 instrument.]

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
The Tracker, 41:3 (1997) 21: Open In New Tab
We received the most recent update for this stoplist from Paul R. Marchesano on April 26, 2023.

Instrument Images:

Organ facade at front of room, drumset not original!: Photograph from an archival source: The Tracker, 41:3 (1997) 21, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano. Taken approx. 1997

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