THE ATLANTIC CITY HIGH SCHOOL ORGAN
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Details of the second contract are given below and, as can be seen, it provided a number of new stops, in addition to those already mentioned.
Item 2 [Item 1 is the contract's terms] This string choir [of 18 registers, 8 stops, 8 ranks, and 668 pipes] shall be located as directed and attached to the wind now supplied to the organ. It shall be wired to the organ console in such fashion that each element may be brought on separately as required from a setter similar to that now provided for the Grand Mixture now installed in the organ. The chorus as a whole may be brought on to any manual or pedal by means of a general stop key placed with the present stop keys. Blanks on the Great, Solo and Pedal being available. (A redesign of the right hand key jamb to include the general stop key to control the choir on the swell choir and antiphonal divisions. The right hand key jamb is to be altered by the contractor to include stop controls for the various items listed herein according to a design to be submitted by the engineer. Such alteration is included in the unit price of this item. In addition to manual control of the separate elements in the string choir at least three combination pistons affecting the choir are to be provided.
| No. | Name | Pitch | Wind | Scale | Material | Pipes |
| 2.1 | Contra Bass "from Solo unit" * | 16 | - | - | - | - |
| 2.2 | Cello (mp) from #2.1 | 8 | - | - | spotted metal | 12 |
| 2.3 | Cello Flat (p) unit | 8 | 12" | - | spotted metal | 73 |
| 2.4 | Cello (f) | 8 | 12" | 56 | tin | 73 |
| 2.5 | Cello Sharp (f) | 8 | 12" | 56 | tin | 73 |
| 2.6 | Violins (f) | 8 | 12" | 70 | tin | 73 |
| 2.7 | Violins Sharp (f) | 8 | 12" | 70 | tin | 73 |
| 2.8 | Violins (f) | 8 | 12" | 70 | tin | 73 |
| 2.9 | Reed String (mf) ** | 8 | 12" | - | reeds | 73 |
| 2.10 | Nazard (mp) unit | 51/3 | 12" | - | - | 73 |
| 2.11 | Viola (mp) ext. #2.1 | 4 | - | - | - | - |
| 2.12 | Viola Celest (p) ext. #2.3 | 4 | - | - | - | - |
| 2.13 | Tenth (p) ext. 2.3 | 31/5 | - | - | - | - |
| 2.14 | Twelfth (mp) ext. 2.10 | 22/3 | - | - | - | - |
| 2.15 | Fifteenth (p) ext. #2.1 | 2 | - | - | - | - |
| 2.16 | Seventeenth (p) ext. 2.3 | 13/5 | - | - | - | - |
| 2.17 | Nineteenth (pp) ext. 2.10 | 11/3 | - | - | - | - |
| 2.18 | Twenty-Second (ppp) ext. #2.1 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
*The enclosed Pedal organ's 85-note Violone rank, in the Solo box. The extensions of this stop (2.2, 2.11, 2.15, and 2.18) are shown as having 12 extra pipes to provide each register with a 73-note compass.
**Intended to be an Orchetral Oboe-type voice.
Item 3 One Flute Unit. A high-pressure, double mouthed flute as specified below to be supplied and mounted back of the case on the right side of the organ. Wind to be supplied from the general organ wind supply and attached to the organ console so as to play on manual No. 2 and No. 5.
| No. | Name | Pitch | Wind | Scale | Material | Pipes |
| 2.19 | Flute Maggori* | 8 | 20" | - | wood | 54 |
*Actually named Stentor Flute. Double mouthed from tenor C, with the lowest seven notes obtained "from Ped. open" - presumably, the unenclosed Diapason (stop #106).
Item 4 Vox Unit. A three rank solo Vox Humana unit to be installed in the present solo chamber and attached to the organ console to play from Manual No. 4. Alternate price if 8' Hohl Flute, medium scale, stopped bass, 61 pipes is included. 10 inch wind.
| No. | Name | Pitch | Wind | Scale | Material | Pipes |
| 2.20 | Solo Vox Humana | 8 | - | - | reeds | 61 |
| 2.21 | Gedeckt | 8 | - | - | metal | 61 |
| 2.22 | Traverse Flute formerly on Great Harmonic Flute new stop for Great | 4
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Item 5 One Horn Unit. This unit to be installed in the Floating division, made playable from Manual No. 3.
| No. | Name | Pitch | Wind | Scale | Material | Pipes |
| 2.23 | Post Horn | 8 | 6" | - | reeds | 61 |
| 2.24 | Diapason | 8 | 6" | 40 | metal | 61 |
Item 6 Harmonic Unit. This unit to be installed in the [rear of the] choir box, to be playable from Manuals 1 and 5. A setter controlled by at least two pistons to be provided as detailed similar to string choir.
| No. | Name | Pitch | Wind | Scale | Material | Pipes |
| 2.25 | Harmonic Flute unit | 8 | 6" | - | - | 97 |
| 2.26 | Harmonic Flute unit | 62/5 | 6" | - | - | 85 |
| 2.27 | Harmonic Flute unit | 51/3 | 6" | - | - | 85 |
| 2.28 | Harmonic Flute unit | 44/7 | 6" | - | - | 85 |
| 2.29 | Harmonic Flute ext. #2.25 | 4 | - | - | - | - |
| 2.30 | Harmonic Flute ext. #2.26 | 31/5 | - | - | - | - |
| 2.31 | Harmonic Flute ext. #2.27 | 22/3 | - | - | - | - |
| 2.32 | Harmonic Flute ext. #2.28 | 22/7 | - | - | - | - |
| 2.33 | Harmonic Flute ext. #2.25 | 2 | - | - | - | - |
| 2.34 | Harmonic Flute ext. #2.26 | 13/5 | - | - | - | - |
| 2.35 | Harmonic Flute ext. #2.27 | 11/3 | - | - | - | - |
| 2.36 | Harmonic Flute ext. #2.28 | 11/7 | - | - | - | - |
| 2.37 | Harmonic Flute ext. #2.25 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
N.B. This department may have constituted the "half-a-dozen" mutation stops donated by Seibert Losh (although it actually has only three off-the-note stops, derived to provide nine registers). Either way, it pre-dates the famous Harmonic division on the Cadet Chapel organ at the Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., by some five years.
Item 7 Second Flute Unit. This [unenclosed] unit is to be installed in front of the choir box and playable from Manual No. 1.
| No. | Name | Pitch | Wind | Scale | Material | Pipes |
| 2.38 | Hohl Flute | 8 | - | - | - | 61 |
| 2.39 | Diapason | 8 | - | - | - | 61 |
| 2.40 | Octave | 4 | - | - | - | 61 |
| 2.41 | Repeating Mixture | IV | - | - | - | 244 |
Item 8 Diapason Unit. Basses from unused display pipes. Alternate price if unified to 4'. Alternate 8b for Hohl Flute, large scale, wood, 61 pipes if added. [The flute, renamed Flute Overte, and the 4-foot extension of the diapason were, in fact, provided.]
| No. | Name | Pitch | Wind | Scale | Material | Pipes |
| 2.39 | Cathedral Diapason | 8 | - | 37 | metal | 61 |
Items No. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 are to be so installed that they can be readily removed from the organ, as they are to remain the property of the City of Atlantic City and not become part of the organ...which is the property of the Board of Education.
The total cost of these added items was $10,925 and they brought the various totals to 97 voices (plus two percussions), 117 ranks, and 7,956 pipes. Included in these figures is the Solo organ's Royal Trumpet, with 61 pipes. Although this stop does not appear in either of the contracts, it is mentioned by Richards in his description of the instrument and, therefore, must have been added at some stage.
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