Better Pipe Organ Database

Austin Organs, Inc. Opus 2082 (1946)

Edwards Congregational Church
297 Main St.
Northampton, MA

Images

2016-03-02 - Church exterior (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2019-05-25 - Church interior to rear (Photograph by Solena Rizzato, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2019-05-25 - Console after renovation (Photograph by Solena Rizzato, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2012-01-27 - Console before renovation (Photograph by Church Facebook/Jeff Scofield)

2017-02-27 - Chancel, console and organ chambers (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Movable Console
3 manuals
32 stops
45 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons

Notes

2005-01-07 - Information identifying this instrument from the Austin Organs, Inc. web site, accessed December 29, 2004: http://www.austinorgans.com/organ-research.htm. -Database Manager

2019-12-09 - From the church website: We can trace the organ’s history back over 120 years. In 1897, Boston organ builder George Hutchings installed a three-manual 45-rank organ, Opus 418. It remained in use until 1946, when a new organ was built by Austin Organs, Inc. of Hartford. Austin retained much of the original pipework in creating an organ of three manuals and 34 ranks, Opus 2082. In 1958, the Edwards Church congregation decided to erect a new building. Austin removed the organ to storage, then rebuilt and reconfigured it for its new (and current) location. In 1970, Arthur Birchall of the Æolian-Skinner Organ Company, Inc. of Boston worked to lighten and brighten the Great chorus. Messrs. Czelusniak et Dugal, Inc. of Northampton have maintained the organ since 1975, completing a major overhaul in 2000 and installing a solid-state control system in 2009. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist from the church website Date not recorded

       Northampton, Massachusetts
       Edwards Congregational Church

       Austin   Op. 2082   1946   3/34
       ___________________________________________

       GREAT                    SWELL

   16' Open Diapason         8' Orchestral Flute
    8' Open Diapason         8' Viola
    8' Doppel Flute          8' Dolce
    8' Melodia               8' Dolce Celeste
    8' Viola da Gamba        4' Silver Flute
    4' Octave            2 2/3' Nasard
2 2/3' Twelfth               2' Flautina
    2' Fifteenth             8' Cor Anglais
  III  Mixture                  Tremulant
       Sub                      Sub
       Unison Off               Unison Off
       Super                    Super
                                Chimes
       SWELL                    Harp

   16' Lieblich Gedeckt         PEDAL
    8' Geigen Diapason
    8' Stopped Diapason     32' Resultant Diapason
    8' Salicional           16' Open Diapason
    8' Voix Céleste         16' Open Diapason    GT
    8' Aeoline              16' Bourdon
    4' Geigen Octave        16' Lieblich Gedeckt SW
    4' Stopped Flute        16' Dulciana CH
    2' Fifteenth        10 2/3' Quint
   16' Contra Fagotto        8' Octave
    8' Trumpet               8' Flute
    8' Oboe                  8' Gamba            GT
    8' Vox Humana            8' Gedeckt          SW
    4' Clarion               4' Fifteenth
       Tremulant            16' Contra Fagotto   SW
       Sub                   4' Hautbois
       Unison Off
       Super     

      [Received from Jeff Scofield December 9, 2019]