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Wm. Johnson & Son Opus 738 (1890)

Smith College: College Hall
Northampton, MA

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
3 manuals
37 stops
Key action Type: Mechanical With Pneumatic Assists
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Combination action: None

Notes

2004-10-30 - Pneumatic action go Great and its couplers, and to lowest octave of Swell. Replaced c. 1909. -Database Manager

2010-07-25 - Updated through on-line information from Grant Moss. -- The organ was in regular use until the summer of 1924, when it was removed (in perfect condition) from the building during renovations. No information on its relocation has yet been discovered. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Specification from <i>The Organ in New England</i> by Barbara Owen (Raleigh: The Sunbury Press, 1979) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Northampton, Massachusetts
Smith College - College Hall

Wm. Johnson & Son   Opus 738   1890            3 manuals, 37 stops, 39 ranks
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Source: Johnson & Son publicity flyer.

        GREAT ORGAN                            SWELL ORGAN
    16' Contra Viola         61            16' Bourdon Treble       49 tc
     8' Open Diapason        61            16' Bourdon Bass         12
     8' Gamba                61             8' Principal            61
     8' Spitz Floete         61             8' Viola                61
     8' Doppel Floete        61             8' Æoline               61
     4' Octave               61             8' Stopped Diapason     61
     4' Lieblich Floete      61             4' Violina              61
 2 2/3' Twelfth              61             4' Philomel Flute       61
     2' Super Octave         61         2 2/3' Nasard               61
        Mixture III         183             2' Flautino             61
     8' Trumpet              61                Dolce Cornet III    183
                                           16' Contra Fagotto       61
        CHOIR ORGAN                         8' Cornopean            61
    16' Contra Æeoline       12             8' Oboe (treble)        49 tc
    16' Still Gedackt Bass   49 tc          8' Bassoon (bass)       12
     8' Geigen Principal     61
     8' Dolce                61                PEDAL ORGAN
     8' Claribel Flute       61            32' Untersatz            42
     4' Fugara               61            16' Grand Principal      30
     4' Flute d'Amour        61            16' Contra Bass          42
     2' Flageolet            61            16' Bourdon (Untersatz)  --
     8' Clarinet (treble)    49 tc          8' Violoncello (C.Bass) --
     8' Fagotto (bass)       12
                                               MECHANICALS
        COUPLERS                               Swell Tremolo
        Swell to Great                         Choir Tremolo
        Swell to Choir                         Great to Pedal Reversible
        Choir to Great
        Choir to Pedal                         COMBINATIONS
        Great to Pedal                         4 Great
        Swell to Pedal                         3 Swell
        Swell Octave Coupler                   1 Pedal


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2015-01-01]

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