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W.B.D. Simmons & Co. (1864)

Consoles

Main

• Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
• Console position: Keydesk Attached
• 2 manuals
• 18 stops
• 17 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: 56 notes
• Pedal Type: Flat Straight
• Expression Type: Trigger/Hitch-Down Expression
• Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2004-10-30 - Church was Universalist. Now [2003] merged congregation composed of Universalist, Congregationalist and Methodist. Rebuilt by Hill, Norman & Beard 1959, 2-20. -Database Manager

2007-10-19 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- 3-sectional case with 19 pipes in Romanesque arches arranged: 5-9-5. Case painted white except for keydesk interior. Likely originally faux-grained. -Database Manager

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

• #8952 - Wm. Hill & Sons and Norman & Beard Ltd. (1959)
• #9772 - Andover Organ Co. (2002)

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