Schoenstein Organ

Schoenstein & Co., Opus 123A, 2006


The St. Paul’s Organ was built by Schoenstein & Co. of San Francisco, California and is the first Schoenstein instrument in the mid-Atlantic region. Designed to accompany the Anglican service, the instrument has a rich selection of colorful solo stops and soft effects, as well as ensembles for brilliant hymn playing. Unique to St. Paul’s organ are a solo reed stop that sounds like the horn used in a Wagner orchestra (Tuben 8′), a symphonic flute, and two stops from the 1869 organ in the Mormon Tabernacle, Salt Lake City. The smallest pipe is pencil-sized; the largest pipe is 18.5 feet tall, 2 square feet in dimension and weighs 430 pounds.

 

For audio samples of the 1996 Schoenstein instrument, please click here.

Close-up of organ stops, black knobs with white labels and text, on a wooden panel.

Organ Specifications

4 Manuals, 61 ranks


GREAT (3 ¾’’ to 7 ½’’ Wind)


16'     Double Diapason

 8'      First Open Diapason

 8'      Second Open Diapason 

 8'      Harmonic Flute (Bourdon Bass) 

 8'      Bourdon 

 4'      Principal 

 4'      Claribel Flute (Prepared)   

 2 ⅔’  Twelfth (TC) 

 2'      Fifteenth 

 1 ⅗’   Seventeenth (TC)

 2'      Full Mixture (IV Ranks) 

 8'      Harmonic Trumpet (Ethereal) 

Chimes (C2-G4) 

 

SWELL (5 ½’’ Wind)


16'    Lieblich Bourdon 

 8'     Open Diapason

 8'     Stopped Diapason

 8'     Echo Gamba

 8'     Vox Celeste

 8'     Flute Celeste (II Ranks - Celestial)† 

 8'     Celestiana (II Ranks – Ethereal)   

 4'     Gemshorn 

 4'     Harmonic Flute 

 4'     Celestiana (II Ranks – Ethereal) 

 2'     Flageolet 

 2 ⅔’ Cornet (III Ranks) 

 2'     Mixture (III-V Ranks - Celestial)

 8'     Hautboy

 8'     Vox Humana (with Tremulant, Celestial)†† 

16'    Posaune (10" Wind - Celestial)

 8'     Cornopean (10" Wind - Celestial)

 4'     Clarion (10" Wind - Celestial) 

Tremulant 

 

CHOIR (4 ½’’ to 6 ½’’ Wind)


16'   Double Dulciana 

 8'    Dulciana

 8'    Lieblich Gedeckt 

 4'    Fugara 

 4'    Forest Flute 

2 ⅔  Nazard (TC) 

 2'    Salicet 

 2'    Harmonic Piccolo 

1 ⅗’ Tierce (TC)

1 ⅓’ Nineteenth (TC)

1’     Twenty-second 

16'   Corno di Bassetto 

 8'    Flügelhorn 

 8'    Corno di Bassetto 

8’     Tuba Mirabilis (Solo)

Tremulant 

Harp 

Celesta 




SOLO (10" Wind)

 8'   Symphonic Flute 

 8'   Gamba 

 8'   Gamba Celeste 

 8'   Celestiana (II Ranks - Ethereal)

 8'   English Horn

 8'   French Horn

 8'   Harmonic Trumpet (Ethereal)

 8'   Tuba (Ethereal)

 8'   Tuben (Celestial)*

 8'  Tuba Mirabilis 

 Tremulant

 Bells (Cymblestern) 


PEDAL (3 ¾’’ to 7 ½’’ Wind) 

 32'    Double Open Wood (Solo - Generator)

 32'    Contra Gamba (Solo) 

 32'    Contra Bourdon (Celestial)

 16'    Open Wood 

 16'    Open Diapason (Great)

 16'    Bourdon

 16'    Dulciana (Choir)

 16'    Lieblich Bourdon (Swell)

 8'      Principal 

 8'      Bourdon (Great) 

 8'      Stopped Diapason (Swell)

 8'      Dulciana (Choir)

 4'      Fifteenth 

 4'      Flute (Great)

 2 ⅔   Mixture (IV Ranks) 

 32'    Double Ophicleide (Solo - Generator)

 32'    Contra Posaune (Celestial)

 16'    Ophicleide 

 16'    Posaune (Celestial)

 16'    Corno di bassetto (Choir)

 8'      Ophicleide 

 4'      Corno di bassetto (Choir)


SUPER/SUBCOUPLERS: 

Great: Super Octave / Nominal Pitch Off 

Swell: Super Octave / Sub Octave / Nominal Pitch Off

Choir: Super Octave / Sub Octave / Nominal Pitch Off 

Solo:  Super Octave / Sub Octave / Nominal Pitch Off 


COUPLERS 

Sw - Gt / Ch - Gt / So- Gt 

Sw - Ch / So - Ch / Gt - Ch 

So - Sw

Gt - Ped / Sw - Ped / Ch - Ped / So - Ped 

Ped - Ch 

Pedal Divide Solo / Pedal Divide Choir 


DOUBLE ENLOSURES 

Enclosed celestial division within swell division

Enclosed ethereal division within solo division 


* Draws all three Celestial chorus reeds at 8' pitch 

† Unison-only available by switch

†† Separate box within Celestial box

TC: Rank begins at tenor C 


Pizzicato Bass: Draws Open Wood at Octave Pitch