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LIVELY-FULCHER PIPE ORGAN BUILDERS Installation, Summer 1997 (Balcony)

The Lively-Fulcher Organ in the Balcony at OPMH

GREAT

SWELL

PEDAL

Bourdon 16' (49)

Diapason 8' (61)

Contra Bourdon 32' (digital)

Open Diapason 8'(61)

Chimney Flute 8' (61)

Open Diapason 16' (32)

Stopt Diapason 8' (61)

Salicional 8' (61)

Subbass 16' (32)

Harmonic Flute 8' (49)

Voix Celeste 8' (56)

Principal 8' (32)

Principal 4' (61)

Principal 4' (61)

Bass Flute 8' (12)

Open Flute 4' (61)

Tapered Flute 4' (61)

Fifteenth 4' (12)

Twelfth 2 2/3' (61)

Flageolet 2' (61)

Trombone 16' (32)

Fifteenth 2' (61)

Sesquialtera II 2 2/3' (122)

Trumpet 8' (12)

Cornet III 2 2/3' (183)

Larigot 1 1/3' (61)

Great to Pedal 8'

Furniture IV 1 1/3' (244)

Mixture III 1' (183)

Swell to Pedal 8'

Trumpet 8' (61)

Bassoon 16' (61)

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Swell to Great 8'

Hautboy 8' (61)

Tremulant

Tremulant

Zimbelstern (added 8/00)

Mechanical key action. Electric stop action with eight-level combination action. Detached console. Mahogany stained case with pipe shades (carvings). Polished tin front pipes. 30 stops. 35 ranks. 2026 pipes.

Mark Lively and Paul Fulcher have each been building pipe organs for over 20 years, some of which have been with the renowned English organ builder J. W. Walker. They have been responsible for scores of organs all over the world, including America, Europe, and the Far East. In the last few years they have formed a partnership, located near Washington, DC.

HENRY ERBEN, ORGANBUILDER Installation, 1849 (Apse, behind the pulpit)

The Erben Organ in the Apse at OPMH

Henry Erben, born in 1800, son of Peter Erben, a distinguished New York City organist of Trinity Church, was apprenticed to organ builder Thomas Hall at the age of seventeen, and by 1821 was a partner in the company. Upon his death, Hall’s name was dropped from the company and business for Erben was most promising. By 1845, 153 instruments had been built including 6 located outside the United States. From 1847 to 1863, a branch facility was maintained in Baltimore MD for the distribution of organs to the South. When Erben died in May 1884, his obituary in the New York Tribune stated that he had built 1734 organs in his career.

The organ at OMPH is a reflection of English organs of the period. Eight-foot stops are divided on the single manual. A pedal stop was added a few years after its 1849 installation; in 1997 the pedal board and pedal bourdon were removed into storage.*

Open Diapason 8'

Principal 4'

Trumpet 8'

Stopt Diapason 8'

Flute 4'

Man/Ped Coupler*

Dulciana 8'

Piccolo 2'

Pedal Bourdon 16'*