Seventh Regiment Armory 643 Park Avenue at 66th Street New York, N.Y. 10021                         Hilborne L. Roosevelt New York City – Opus 94 (1882) Electro-pneumatic action 1 manual, 12 stops, 15 ranks This organ was built for the 1882 Music Festival that took place in the Seventh Regiment Armory. The organ was of large scale and the pipes were voiced on special pressures. There was a detached console, and the action was electro-pneumatic. After the close of the festival, the organ was dismantled and sent to Chicago for another music festival there. Later, it was installed in the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, with two stops omitted, and it was damaged by fire in 1892.           Great Organ – 58 notes? 16   Bourdon 4 Octave 8   Open Diapason Mixture IV ranks 8   Viola di gamba 8 Tuba Mirabilis 8   Doppel flöte   Tremulant             Pedal Organ – 30 notes? 32   Open Diapason 8 Violoncello 16   Open Diapason 16 Trombone 16   Bourdon                               Sources:     New York Architecture Images website: http://www.nyc-architecture.com     Organs in the United States and Canada Database (OUSCDB); courtesy George Nelson.     Webber, F.R. "Organ Scrapbook" in Organ Historical Society Archives, Princeton, N.J. Specifications of 1882 Roosevelt organ; courtesy Jonathan Bowen. Photos and images:     New York Architecture Images website: exterior               | NYC AGO Home Page | Back to NYC Organ Project List |