Emmanuel Church, Newport, RI

On top of new organ installations, Allen Organ Studios also installs numerous used Allen organs throughout the year. After a church in Tennessee decided to sell their very large Allen Renaissance R450, it quickly found a new home at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Newport, RI.

The AOS team subsequently drove to Rhode Island and spent a week installing this instrument in its new home. The sanctuary itself provided a wonderful acoustic setting, with the organ spread across chambers on both sides of the chancel/choir area. The previous pipe organ had fallen into disrepair and was too costly to maintain and rebuild. The Allen organ, with it’s expansive stoplist and 16 channels of output, offers the organist a voice pallet previously unavailable on the pipe organ. The stoplist and pictures can be viewed below.

A pair of video recordings were also made after installation and voicing were complete.

“Aria” (arr. Nicholas Bowden)

Improvisation on “Sweet Hour of Prayer” (arr. J. Hill)

Stoplist

Left Jamb				33	Swell	4
	PEDAL Division (24 Stops)			34	Tremulant
1	Solo (C)			35	French Trumpet (R)	8
2	Great (C)	8		36	Fourniture IV		Mixtur IV
3	Trumpet (R)	8		37	Nasard	2-2/3
4	Contre Bombarde (R)	32	K. Posaune	38	Rohr Bourdon	8	Geigen Diap.
5	Flute	4		39	Viola Celeste b	8
6	Violone	16		40	Alternate Tuning
7	Bourdon	16	Subbass
8	Contre Violone	32		41	String (C)
				42	Unison Off (C)
9	String (C)			43	Vox Humana (R)	8	V. Humaine
10	Swell (C)	8		44	Oboe (R)	8	Hautbois
11	Choir (C)			45	Tierce	1-3/5
12	Bombarde (R)	16	Posaune	46	Traverse flute	4
13	Mixture IV			47	Viola Celeste #	8	Voix Celeste
14	Gedackt flöte	8		48	Swell 2nd Voicing
15	Diapason	16	Prinzipal
16	Contre Bourdon	32			STRING Division (8 Stops)
				49	Tremulant
17	Swell (C)	4		50	Vox Humana (R)	8
18	Great (C)	4		51	Vox Humana (R)	16
19	Clarion (R)	4		52	Strings VI	4
20	(Sw) Waldhorn (R)	16		53	Strings VI	8
21	Choral bass	4		54	Strings VI	16
22	Octave	8	Oktav	55	Dulcets II Off
23	(Sw) Lieblich gedackt	16		56	Gambas II Off
24	Bass Coupler
					MIDI Division (5 Stops)
	SWELL Division (24 Stops)			57	MIDI On Solo
25	Solo (C)			58	MIDI On Swell
26	Swell (C)	16		59	MIDI On Great
27	Clarion (R)	4		60	MIDI On Choir
28	Waldhorn (R)	16		61	MIDI On Pedal
29	Piccolo	2
30	Octave Geigen	4
31	Viola Pomposa	8	Salicional
32	Flute Celeste II	8	Erz. Cel. II
	Right Jamb			91	String (C)
	GENERAL Division (5 Stops)			92	Swell (C)	16
62	All Swells To Swell			93	Tremulant
63	Tremulants Full			94	Cymbale III
64	Swell Main Off			95	Flute	4
65	Swell To Antiph.			96	Harmonic Flute	8	Metalgedackt
66	[Blank]			97	Double Diapason	16	Quintaton
				98	Gt/Pd 2nd Voices
	SOLO Division (8 Stops)
67	Tremulant				CHOIR Division (24 Stops)
68	Tuba Clarion (R)	4		99	Swell (C)	4
69	Tuba Mirabilis (R)	8		100	Swell (C)	16
70	Tuba Mirabilis (R)	16		101	Rankett (R)	16	Orch. Harp
71	Cor Anglais (R)	8		102	Oktav	2
72	Corno di Bassetto (R)	8		103	Prinzipal	4
73	French Horn (R)	8		104	Erzähler	8
74	Flauto Mirabilis	8		105	Gt/Ch Manual Transfer
				106	Choir Main Off
	GREAT Division (24 Stops)
75	Solo (C)			107	String (C)
76	Swell (C)	8		108	Swell (C)	8
77	Tromba (R)	8		109	Tremulant
78	Mixture IV			110	Zimbal III		Handbells
79	Twelfth	2-2/3	Sesquialt. II	111	Koppelflöte	4
80	1st Diapason	8	Prinzipal	112	Holz gedackt	8
81	2nd Diapason	8	Bourdon	113	Erzähler	16
82	Gt/Pd Main Off			114	Choir To Antiph.
83	Swell (C)	4		115	Solo (C)
84	Choir (C)			116	Unison Off (C)
85	Double Trumpet (R)	16		117	Krummhorn (R)	8	Celesta
86	Fifteenth	2		118	Quintflöte	1-1/3	Harpsichord
87	Octave	4	Oktav	119	Erzähler Celeste II	4
88	Gamba	8		120	Erzähler Celeste	8
89	Chimes			121	Choir Percussion
90	Gt/Pd To Antiph.			122	So —> Gt Melody Coupler
	(R) Denotes Reed Stop (22)
	(C) Denoted Couplers (24)

Photos