JULIAN RHODES' DREAM ORGANS
 ORGAN FACTS AND FIGURES



SUB-QUINT PEDAL STOPS
 compiled by David Willey


All the following are examples of Pedal stops at 21 1/3ft. pitch.

This list includes only organs known to be extant or under construction at the time of writing.
Last update: 1 January 2000.

Convention Hall, Atlantic City NJ - Midmer-Losh 1930          Sub Quint; Diaphone Phonon
Eger Cathedral - Mooser 19c; Erdosi & Gonda 1963-66           Nagy Quinta
Mariahilfekirche München-Au - Schmid 1975                     Großquinte
St. Anna Altötting - Schmid 1976                              Subquint
Royal ALbert Hall London - Willis; Harrison 1921 - 72/3       Double Quint
St Osmond Parkstone - Compton 1931                            Sub Quint
Cadet Chapel West Point NY - Moller et al 1911 - 1994         Bourdon; Dulzian
                                                              (and at 42 2/3ft.:
                                                               Bourdon; Dulzian)
Crystal Cathedral Orange County CA - 
                  Aeolian-Skinner 1962 + Ruffatti 1977 1990   Diapente Grave
Calvary Church Charlotte NC - Moller 1990                     Grave Diapente
Oakland First Presbyterian Church CA - Rosales 1988-93        Prestant Quint
Trinity Lutheran Church Hagerstown MD - Moller; Schantz 1996  Diapente
The following stops have either been removed from the organ in question; or the organ itself has been destroyed.

Branch Street Tabernacle, Lowell MA                           Sub Quint
                          (this organ also included a 12 4/5ft. Terz)
Kongreßhalle Nürnburg - Walcker 1936                          Großnasat
Atlantic City High School - Midmer-Losh 1923-5                Sub Quinte
Harvard University Chapel - Aeolian-Skinner 1932              Double Quint
Oberlin College OH - Casavant 1931/2                          Double Quint


DISCLAIMER
The information given above is, to the best of my knowledge, correct.
However, organs change, are rebuilt or destroyed.
Please email me with any further information, either sins of omission or commission!
(And I know... even builder's leaflets can be in error.)


and from Julian Rhodes:

I know of only two examples of 21 1/3ft. stops from before the 19th-century.

In Sevilla Cathedral an organ was built by Antonio Pedro Faleiro in 1668-73, including a remarkable Pedal division of 12 or 13 stops:

    32   21 1/3   16   10 2/3   8   5 1/3   4   ?2 2/3   2   32   16   8   4

At St. Laurent, Alkmaar, the organ was rebuilt by F.C. Schnitger in 1723-6. He used the 1646 Pedal 22ft. principal pipes as a 21 1/3ft. quint. In 1781 its compass was completed to C, and the rank became a 32ft. Praestant.



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