Better Pipe Organ Database

Kimball-Frazee Organ Co. (1920ca.)

St. James Episcopal Church
120 Main Street
Amesbury, MA

OHS convention: 1987

Note: Not playable. (in this location)

Images

Unknown - Church exterior, ca. 1920's. (Vintage postcard, courtesy of James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
2 manuals
20 stops
16 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1996. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Stoplist on separate sheet, not in Organ Handbook. Condition in 1996 average. Combination action. [Church had 1847 Morss; 1892 Hutchings Op. 272 2-16rk, which burned; then 1900 E. W. Lane.] -Database Manager

2006-09-06 - Updated through on-line information from Barbara Owen. -- This organ replaced by new two-manual 20-stop Wissinger tracker-action organ, 2002. 14 sets of pipes re-used, altered and revoiced. 56-note manuals, 30-note pedal. Located at left side only. -Database Manager

2009-07-02 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- At some later date, a 2' Fifteenth was installed in the Swell in place of the original 8' Vox Humana. -Database Manager

2013-07-24 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the console August 1988 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Amesbury, Massachusetts
St. James Episcopal Church

Kimball-Frazee Organ Co., ca. 1920 - Original Specifications

GREAT
   8'   Open Diapason               61
   8'   Melodia                     61
   8'   Gamba                       61
   8'   Dulciana                    61
   4'   Octave                      61
   8'   Trumpet
   Great to Great 16'
   Great to Great 4'

SWELL (Expressive)
   16'  Bourdon                     12   Extension of the 8' Std. Diapason.
   8'   Open Diapason               61
   8'   Std. Diapason               61
   8'   Viole d'Orchestre           61
   8'   Voix Celeste          (tc)  49
   8'   Aeoline                     61
   4'   Flute Harmonic              61
   8'   Cornopean                   61
   8'   Oboe                        61
   8'   Vox Humana                  61   Later replaced with a 2' Fifteenth.
        Tremolo
   Swell to Swell 16'
   Swell Unison On/Off
   Swell to Swell 4'

PEDAL
   16'  Subbass                     32
   16'  Bourdon               (Sw)  --
   8'   Flute                       12   Extension of the 16' Subbass.
   8'   Gedackt               (Sw)  --

COUPLERS
   Swell to Pedal
   Great to Pedal
   Swell to Great

FINGER PISTONS
   Swell                       0,1 - 4
   Great                       0,1 - 4

TOE STUDS
   Gt. to Ped.                   (rev)
   Sforzando                     (rev)

PEDAL MOVEMENTS
   Swell Expression             (bal.)
   Crescendo                    (bal.)

ACTION: E-P primary (?) & unit
VOICES: 16
STOPS: 20
RANKS: 16
PIPES: 959

[Received on line from James R. Stettner July 02, 2009.]

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#23890 - Wissinger Organs (2002)