The Reformed Church of Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck, NY

Specifications

Great:
8' Open Diapason (Unenclosed)
8' Doppel Flute
8' Salicional
4' Gemshorn
Swell to Great
Swell to Great Octaves

Swell:
8' Violin Diapason
9' Stopped Diapason
8' Dolce
4' Flute Harmonique
8' Oboe
Tremulant

Pedal:
16' Bourdon
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal
Mayland chimes A – F, 21 notes
Couplers located above Swell Manual
Pneumatic chests with key action suspended on the primaries. (It is NOT tracker action)
Pedal movements, left to right:
Full Organ, Swell Pedal, Gt/Ped, Organ Piano, Organ Mezzo
The organ is maintained by the Carey Organ Company.

The Reformed Church of Rhinebeck was founded in 1731 as the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Rhinebeck Flatts. The present sanctuary was completed in 1809. The steeple was put on and the bell provided in 1822. A new bell was purchased some years later. In the 1850's the church waas remodeled very largely as it is now.

Church records show that on January 4, 1893, $2,700 was expended for a new organ. Another entry for September 24, 1894, shows that $75 was received as proceeds from the sale of the old organ (Augustus Backus, c. 1860, 1-6) which was sold to St. Peter's Lutheran Church (Old Stone Church).

The new organ is probably one of the last organs built by Frank Roosevelt, the brother of Hilborne L. Roosevelt, who was considered to have had the greatest effect on American organ building during the late 19th century. Hilborne Roosevelt died in 1886 at the age of 37; his brother Frank continued the business until 1893 and died a year later at the age of 33.