Most Holy Redeemer - Nativity parish is extremely blessed to have a unique and historic pipe organ, but it is currently unplayable due to years of neglect. Please help us restore it! If you are interested in donating or supporting this project in any way, please contact Music Director Clara Gerdes Bartz: clara.b.gerdes@gmail.com
In 1891, a new organ having two manuals and 29 stops was built by Frank Roosevelt of New York City. The exact specifications for this organ have not yet been located.
However, Hilborne L. Roosevelt, founder of the company and Frank's brother, advertised a "Style 39" that was a stock model with two manuals and 29 stops. Style 39 is very similar to the stoplist found on the Great, Swell and Pedal divisions as rebuilt in 1911 by A. L. Fenton, although the existing Roosevelt manual chests have 61 instead of 58 notes. Following is the specification of Style 39 (as published in 1888 by Hilborne L. Roosevelt):
Great Organ (Manual I) – 58 notes, partially enclosed with Swell
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16 | Double Open Diapason | 58 | 4 | Octave | 58 | ||
8 | Open Diapason | 58 | 4 | Flute Harmonique | 58 | ||
8 | Viola di Gamba | 58 | 2 2/3 | Octave Quint * | 58 | ||
8 | Dulciana | 58 | 2 | Super Octave * | 58 | ||
8 | Concert Flute [1-12 fr. Dop.Fl.] | 46 | Mixture, 3 & 4 ranks * | 196 | |||
8 | Doppel Flöte | 58 | 8 | Trumpet * | 58 | ||
* enclosed within the Swell-box | |||||||
Swell Organ (Manual II) – 58 notes, enclosed
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16 | Bourdon | 58 | 4 | Hohl Flöte | 58 | ||
8 | Violin Diapason | 58 | 2 | Piccolo Harmonique | 58 | ||
8 | Spitz Flöte | 58 | Cornet, 3, 4 & 5 ranks | 242 | |||
8 | Dolce | 58 | 8 | Cornopean | 58 | ||
8 | Vox Celestis [TC] | 46 | 8 | Oboe | 58 | ||
8 | Stopped Diapason | 58 | 8 | Vox Humana | 58 | ||
4 | Gemshorn | 58 | Tremolo | ||||
Pedal Organ – 30 notes
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16 | Open Diapason | 30 | 10 2/3 | Quint | 30 | ||
16 | Bourdon | 30 | 8 | Violoncello | 30 | ||
Couplers
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Swell to Great | Swell to Pedal | ||||||
Swell to Great 8ves | Great to Pedal | ||||||
Mechanical Accessories
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Swell Tremulant | Eclipse Wind Indicator | ||||||
Bellows Signal | |||||||
Pedal Movements
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Great Organ Forte | Great to Pedal Reversible Coupler | ||||||
Great Organ Piano | Balanced Swell Pedal | ||||||
Swell Organ Forte | |||||||
Swell Organ Piano |
In 1911, Arthur L. Fenton of New York City rebuilt and enlarged the 1891 Roosevelt organ. An article in The Diapason (May 1912) announced this work as follows:
"The new organ at the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer, New York City, was used for the first time since its completion Saturday evening, April 6, with the organist and choirmaster, Alfonse J. Weiss, officiating.
"This organ was built by Arthur L. Fenton, successor to the late Charles Maier, at the Maier factory, 3636-3638 Park avenue, New York, and is a three manual with electric action and thirty-nine speaking stops. The great organ has eleven stops, the swell thirteen, the choir eight and the pedal seven, besides the gedackt borrowed. There are fourteen couplers, fourteen [sic] combination pistons and a total of 2,760 pipes. The wind is supplied by an Orgoblo located in a disused spiral staircase."
Fenton reused most if not all of the 1881 Frank Roosevelt organ, Op. 504, including chests, pipes, and the console shell and bench. The drawknobs were replaced with colored stopkeys: white for labials, red for reeds, and robin's egg blue for tremolos. A new 32-note concave and radiating "A.G.O." pedalboard was installed, although Fenton did not add pipes for the top two notes.
The organ received attention or was rebuilt again in 1938 by the Fenton Organ Co. of Nyack, N.Y., as re-established about 1932 by Arthur L. Fenton after he dissolved his partnership with Robert H. Clark in Clark & Fenton of Nyack.
Great Organ (Manual II) – 61 notes, partially enclosed with Choir
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16 | Major Diapason * | 61 | 4 | Octave | 61 | ||||||||
8 | Open Diapason * | 61 | 2 | Wald Flote | 61 | ||||||||
8 | Gamba | 61 | Cornet III-IV ranks | 196 | |||||||||
8 | Doppel Flote | 61 | Mixture V ranks | 305 | |||||||||
8 | Flute Harmonic | 61 | 8 | Trumpet | 61 | ||||||||
4 | Flauto Traverso | 61 | * unenclosed | ||||||||||
Swell Organ (Manual III) – 61 notes, enclosed
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16 | Bourdon | 61 | 4 | Flute Harmonic | 61 | ||||||||
8 | Open Diapason | 61 | 2 | Flautino | 61 | ||||||||
8 | Stopped Diapason | 61 | Mixture III ranks | 183 | |||||||||
8 | Salicional | 61 | 8 | Cornopean | 61 | ||||||||
8 | Vox Celestis [TC] | 49 | 8 | Oboe | 61 | ||||||||
8 | Viol d'Orchestre | 61 | 8 | Vox Humana | 61 | ||||||||
4 | Gemshorn | 61 | Tremolo | ||||||||||
Choir Organ (Manual I) – 61 notes, enclosed
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8 | Geigen Principal | 61 | 4 | Flute d'Amour | 61 | ||||||||
8 | Concert Flute | 61 | 2 | Piccolo Harmonic | 61 | ||||||||
8 | Dolce | 61 | 8 | Clarinet | 61 | ||||||||
8 | Quintadena | 61 | Tremolo | ||||||||||
4 | Violina | 61 | |||||||||||
Pedal Organ – 30 notes (32-note pedalboard)
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16 | Open Diapason | 30 | 10 2/3 | Quint | 30 | ||||||||
16 | Violon | 30 | 8 | Violoncello | 30 | ||||||||
16 | Bourdon | 30 | 8 | Flute | 30 | ||||||||
16 | Lieblich Gedeckt | SW | 16 | Trombone | 30 | ||||||||
Couplers
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Great to Pedal 8' | Choir to Great 16', 8' | ||||||||||||
Swell to Pedal 8', 4' | Swell to Swell 16', 4' | ||||||||||||
Choir to Pedal 8' | Swell to Choir 8' | ||||||||||||
Swell to Great 16', 8', 4' | Choir to Choir 16', 4' | ||||||||||||
Adjustable Combinations (by setterboard inside console)
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Pedal Movements
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Great to Pedal Reversible | |||||||||||||
Balanced Great & Choir Pedal (mechanical) | |||||||||||||
Balanced Swell Pedal (mechanical) | |||||||||||||
Crescendo Pedal |