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American Institute Fair
Empire City Skating Rink Building
Corner of 63rd Street and Third Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10009
Organ Specifications:
Empire City Skating Rink Building
• II/16 Geo. Jardine & Son (1878)
• II/24 Geo. Jardine & Son (1877)
• I/4 Geo. Jardine & Son (1870)
► I/6 Geo. Jardine & Son (1869)
Niblo's Garden – Broadway and Prince Street (until 1845)
• I/10 Geo. Jardine (1844) |
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Geo. Jardine & Son
New York City (1878)
Mechanical action
2 manuals, 16 stops
The specifications for this organ have not yet been located. |
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Geo. Jardine & Son
New York City (1877)
Mechanical action
1 manual, 4 stops
The specifications for this organ have not yet been located. |
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Geo. Jardine & Son
New York City (1870)
Mechanical action
1 manual, 6 stops, 6 ranks
The specifications for this organ have not yet been located. |
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Geo. Jardine & Son
New York City (1869)
Mechanical action
1 manual, 6 stops, 6 ranks
From a single-page flyer:
ORCHESTRAL ORGAN, INVENTED AND BUILT BY GEORGE JARDINE & SON,
Now on Exhibition at the Great Fair of the American Institute
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Manual – 61 notes
(13" wind pressure)
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Flute a Pavillon |
Wood, 8 feet. Tone full, melodious, and of remarkable pervading quality. |
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Open Diapason |
Metal, 8 feet. Tone clear and ringing. |
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Flute Harmonic |
Metal, 4 feet. Very imitative, and pure intonation. |
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Tuba Mirabilis |
Metal, 8 feet. A trumpet of enormous scale, of singular traveling tone, very powerful, yet round and mellow. |
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Trombone |
Metal, 8 feet. Very orchestral and smooth. |
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Bombarde |
Metal, 16 feet. Deep solid tone, forming the substratum of the whole work. |
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Octave Coupler |
Adding brilliancy. |
Pedal – 25 notes
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The organ is voiced to the unprecedented wind force of 12 inches [sic], making it the most powerful instrument in the world. This enormous pressure on the valves is overcome by JARDINE'S Patent Vacuum Pallet, rendering the touch perfectly easy.
The Bellows is blown by a steam engine.
This organ will form part of the Grand Organ of the Cathedral of New York [St. Patrick's], now building on Fifth Avenue. |
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Geo. Jardine
New York City (1844)
Mechanical action
1 manual, 10 stops
The specifications for this organ have not yet been located. |
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Sources:
Brown, Henry Collins, ed. Valentine's Manual of the City of New York: 1917-1918 (New Series No. 2). New York: The Old Colony Press, 1917.
Jardine Opus List, compiled by Sand Lawn; courtesy David Scribner.
Ogasapian, John. Organ Building in New York City: 1700-1900. Braintree: The Organ Literature Foundation, 1977.
Photos:
Brown, Henry Collins, ed. Valentine's Manual of the City of New York: 1917-1918: Empire Skating Rink.
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