Opus 386 • Date of Manufacture: 1901 • Temple Emanu-El, New York, New York

4 manuals, 65 ranks • Compass: 61/27 • Pneumatic Key Action • Pneumatic Stop Action

| Specfication | (click on picture at right to enlarge)

The agreement for our Opus 386 was signed 25 July, 1901, and promised for delivery before August 15, 1902. At 4 manuals and 65 ranks, it was the largest organ ever built by the Odell firm. The organ replaced a four manual Hall and Labaugh.

The organ bears similarities in layout to Opus 483 for St. Joseph's Church, in Albany, New York, in that the key action for the main organ was tubular-pneumatic, on slider chests, and the Echo organ (seen below, over the bima) was controlled electrically, playable from the Choir and Pedal keyboards. Unlike St. Joseph's, there was no second console; the organ was controlled from a 4 manual keydesk located in the gallery with the main organ.

Stop sliders were controlled with drawstop pneumatics, and the organ utilized the Odell "Patent Pneumatic Composition Knobs", an ingenious mechanical combination action programmable via wooden cams in the rear of the organ. The organ also had a Sforzando and Crescendo Pedal, an invention credited to George Washington Odell.

Temple Emanu-El later merged with Temple Beth-El, and relocated to the present building on 65th Street. The fate of the Odell organ is unknown. Temple Emanu-El now has a IV/135