Better Pipe Organ Database

George Jardine & Son (1889)

St. Luke's Episcopal
40 Congress St.
Saint Albans, VT

OHS convention: 2013

Images

Unknown - Church Exterior (Vintage Postcard, courtesy of T. Bradford Willis, DDS (1908)/Database Manager)

Unknown - Organ case, facade, and keydesk (Photograph by Len Levasseur 2012, for the OHS 2013 Calendar/Database Manager)

1988-10-25 - Organ case (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1988-10-25 - Keydesk from right side (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1988-10-25 - Keydesk from left side (Photograph by James R. Stettner/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
16 stops
14 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: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2004-10-30 - Altered Berkshire, 2-14. -Database Manager

2007-10-19 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- Organ installed in a chamber on the right side at the crossing from nave to chancel. Facades on both nave and chancel side. 15 pipes in a gothic arch for the nave facade. Pipes originally stencilled, now just natural grey zinc. The original etched patterns are still visible in the metal. Organ refurbished/altered by the Berkshire Organ Co. in 1966. -Database Manager

2013-04-25 - According to information from Stephen Pinel, Andover later restored the organ tonally. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist (Source: Paul Opel webpage, 2008-07-08) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

   St. Luke Episcopal Church
   St. Alban, Vermont
   Geo. Jardine & Son (1889)
   Rebuilt Berkshire, 1966
   OHS ID: 1257
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   GREAT (C-a''')       SWELL                           PEDAL (C-d', flat, radiating sharps)
16 Bourdon Treble TC  8 Open Diapason                16 Bourdon
16 Bourdon Bass       8 Clariana TC 
 8 Open Diapason      8 Oboe Gamba TC                   COUPLERS
 8 Melodia            8 Stopped Diapason Bass (1-12)    Swell to Great
 8 Gamba              4 Flute Harmonique                Great to Pedal
 4 Principal          4 Violino                         Swell to Pedal
 4 Flute Harmonic     2 Flageolet
 2 Piccolo              Tremulant                       COMBINATIONS
                                                        Great Forte
   Blowers Signal       Balanced RH Swell Pedal         Great Piano
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[Received online from T. Daniel Hancock, 2012-10-04]