8,000 Pipes: Installing a New Organ at Trinity Church Wall Street

Trinity began rejuvenating its sacred spaces more than four years ago, and that process includes adding three new pipe organs. The Noack organ is already in place at St. Paul’s Chapel; a pipe organ built by Richards Fowkes & Co. will be operational in the Chapel of All Saints by early 2023; and the grandest of them all, an eight-thousand pipe instrument manufactured in Germany, is currently being installed in Trinity Church.
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[@vaniberi8189]

So good to see that digital organ era et Trinity Wall street is done with...

[@anb7408]

I’d heard that extremely overpriced M&O organ was having major issues after only a few years of use and was proven unreliable?…..

[@818Dimples]

8000 pipes, WOW!🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@RebekahCurielAlessi]

Thanks for this beautiful story!! 🎹

[@markcooke729]

I can't wait to hear the finished result & see the full Spec!

[@brucetominello325]

That organ will be the same size as Notre Dame in Paris. Having been in both churches it’s going to be interesting when Trinity is finished. The voicing and wind pressures will be critical.

[@pasorgue52]

BRAVO 👏🏼 another glorious pipe organ and for the great city of New Year and Trinity Wall Street!

[@g.k.failla9389]

It's great to see how pipe organ installations are done. I've watched KZbin videos of organ building by Flentrop. (The Holy Name Catholic Cathedral here has a 1989 Flentrop organ). Several comments mentioned that the former organ was an Aeolian Skinner. The University of Chicago recently restored their Skinner organ. I hope Trinity does a video of the new organ's inaugural recital. From Chicago, U.S.A.

[@818Dimples]

Hey fellow Chicagoan

[@califdad4]

Some day I hope to come to NYC and attend services either Trinity or St John the Devine

[@signbear999]

Visited there recently, and I was disappointed to see how boring the console was. But now I see that they're actually still in the process of improving it. Amazing work.

[@LJB103]

I heard the old organ back when I worked for Irving Trust at One Wall Street in the early 1980's and there would be short lunchtime concerts at Trinity. Unfortunately, I have not been back to lower Manhattan since 1983.

[@vulcanstarlight]

This is truly fascinating to learn of, another very beautiful collaborative project utilizing the grand mindsets of the Rosales organ firm, as I remember the other great instrument they did with C. B. Fisk at Rice University… You are in for a sure TREAT. This instrument will surely be special and capable of a formidable scale of different repertoire. Blessings and all the best! 🤍

[@brucetominello325]

Don’t forget Disney Hall. I had the pleasure of having champagne after a David Higgs Christmas Concert in the blower room with Manuel and company and got to sit at the the console and play a note or two.

[@shawnhampton8503]

Manuel Rosales builds wonderful instruments. He is a master and a star in an otherwise very sketchy organ builder firmament.

[@Durufle68]

sketchy organbuilders? I wonder to what you are eluding

[@chapmand63]

It's a shame they didn't keep and rebuild the Aeolian Skinner. At least another church is enjoying it now.

[@bikdav]

When the organ is finished and completely playing, are you going to release a vinyl disc recording of it?

[@hansenfiet2539]

Would’ve cost less to have refurbished the old one. At least that organ now has a new home in Atlanta.

[@citylimits8927]

While I look forward to the new Glatter-Gotz/Rosales instrument, it boggles my mind that they got rid of the beautiful original Aeolian-Skinner organ for that Marshall & Ogletree computer imitation instrument using loudspeakers in place of pipes. If the original A-S instrument is doing fine in Atlanta - and it certainly is - it INDISPUTABLY should have been cleaned, restored, and reinstalled at Trinity Church! WHY did they not do so?!! At least Glatter-Gotz is a deservedly world-renowned organ builder and Manuel Rosales is a top-notch consultant.

[@kristofzelenka6203]

Svatý Jan Kubát.

[@standiallo]

Kerk en orgel. Het eerste probleem is waar het orgel. Aan de voorkant of aan de achterkant.

[@petermacander2061]

BIG MISTAKE! They should have kept the original organ, cleaned, repaired and revoked/reregulated it. That would have been the best solution.

[@debraramseydickensheets]

The beautiful Skinner has been restored and installed at John’s Creek United Methodist Church (Atlanta).

[@johnjablonski2155]

What is the piece they were playing when he talked about the chamber and the swell shades ?

[@trinitychurchnyc]

Can you give a time stamp?

[@shawardara]

I think it’s the adagio from BWV 564. Toccata adagio and fugue in C

[@buddys_dad]

@@shawardarayou are correct

[@SeraphimCherubim]

What are they doing with the old organ?

[@RebekahCurielAlessi]

From reading the comments here, it sounds like they sent it to some place in Atlanta?

[@debraramseydickensheets]

The Skinner is restored and installed at John’s Creek United Methodist Church (Atlanta)

[@zeusantony5027]

Using a metal hammer to tune the slider of a wooden pipe? Quite beyond belief..

[@pasorgue52]

Haha

[@anb7408]

Well, I use a 10” knitting needle when tuning flues and metal flutes. Perfect for “tapping” on the sleeves without causing damage, and also for pulling up on them without having to remove the pipe.

[@anb7408]

Dumbest thing they ever did was getting rid of the original organ. It’s now working just fine at Johns Creek UMC here in Atlanta.

[@jeffjensen27]

Of Course 32' Pipe Are Still Considered Small Compared To The KING Of KING Instrument Mid Mere Losh Pipe Organ Who Boost Their 64' Which Is Double Your 32' STOP!

[@cabbagepatch8947]

and Sydney Town Hall.

[@RebekahCurielAlessi]

I enjoyed reading all these erudite comments!! 😊