St. Catherine of Genoa RC Church / Sts. Louis & Zelie Martin Parish: Sanctuary; rear gallery
185 Summer Street
Somerville, MA
OHS convention: 2000
Images
ca. 1920 - Church exterior; facade (Photograph from an archival source: Digital Commonwealth, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2022-09-17 - Detail of case, lanterns, side banks of nave and windows (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
2022-09-17 - Nave view from organ gallery (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
2022-09-17 - Church exterior (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
2022-09-17 - Swell stops and couplers (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
2022-09-17 - Great and Pedal stops (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
2022-09-17 - Swell pedal and combination foot levers (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
2022-09-17 - Case and console (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
2022-09-17 - 1995 Restoration Plaque (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
1999-05-04 - Nave, Balcony, and Pipe Facade (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)
1999-05-04 - Keydesk (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
- Console position: Keydesk Attached
- 2 manuals
- 22 stops
- 23 registers
- 3 divisions
- Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
- Stop action Type: Mechanical
- Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
- Manual compass: 58 notes
- Pedal compass: 30 notes
- Pedal Type: Flat Straight
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
- Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
- Has combination trundles
Notes
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 2001 -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Second hand. Originally in a Masonic lodge, location undetermined. Moved to Somerville in 1920. Some rebuilding by Lahaise & Sons. Tracker action to pneumatic pallet actions. Many of the Great pipes are marked 1108 A.. R. Schopp -Database Manager
2021-10-07 - Organ used regularly and in need of some restoration.
Organ was moved and case modified from Presbyterian Church, Sewickley, PA by AB DeCourcy and Co, Boston, MA in 1919-20. -Peter F. Regan
2022-09-18 - Played wedding here today. It all works. Part of Sts. Louis and Zelie Martin Parish. -Andrew Scanlon
Stoplist
Source: Stoplist copied from contract and verified against stop controls
Somerville, Massachusetts
St. Catherine of Genoa Catholic Church
GEO. JARDINE & SON, Opus 1108, 1894
A. B. DeCourcy & Co., 1919 - Moving & Case Reconfiguring
GREAT COUPLERS (Drawknob)
16 ft Double Diapason 58 Swell to Pedal
8 ft Open Diapason 58 Great to Pedal
8 ft Gamba 58
8 ft Clarabella 58 Swell to Great
8 ft Doppel Flote 58
4 ft Principal 58
4 ft Flute Harmonic 58 FOOT TRUNDLES (labeled; l - r)
3 ft Nasard 58 Swell Piano -
2 ft Piccolo 58
8 ft Trumpet 58 Swell Forte -
Great Piano -
SWELL (Expressive) Great Forte -
16 ft Bourdon Treble 46
16 ft Bourdon Bass 12
8 ft Open Diapason 58 PEDAL MOVEMENTS
8 ft Lieblich Gedeckt 58 Swell Expression (bal.)
8 ft Clariana 58
8 ft Aeoline 58
4 ft Violino 58 ACCESSORIES
2 ft Flageolet 58 Bellows Signal
3 Rks Cornet 174
8 ft Oboe and Bassoon 58
Swell Tremolo
ACTION: Mechanical Key & Stop
PEDAL
16 ft Open Diapason 30 VOICES: 22 STOPS: 23
16 ft Bourdon 30
8 ft Violoncello 30 RANKS: 24 PIPES: 1,308
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