Better Pipe Organ Database

Gress-Miles Organ Co. (1981)

First Church of Christ, Congregational
81 High St.
Suffield, CT

Images

Unknown - Facade (Photograph from THE AMERICAN ORGANIST, April 1981/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
37 stops
37 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped 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: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1981 -Database Manager

2006-12-16 - Updated through on-line information from Nicholas Russotto. -Database Manager

2010-01-04 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- This was the only mechanical-action organ built by Gress-Miles. Commissioned in 1977, completed in 1981. -Database Manager

2014-02-24 - Updated through online information from John Igoe. -- Andover Organs Rebuilt the organ with in 2009. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed Stoplist Source: Stoplist from </i>The American Organist</i> April 1981 Date not recorded

        Suffield, Connecticut
        First Church of Christ, Congregational

        Gress-Miles   1980   3/51
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        GREAT (I)                    POSITIV (II)

    16' Holzgedeckt     49        8' Montre        61
     8' Principal       61        8' Gedeckt       61
     8' Traversfloete   61        4' Principal     61
     4' Octave          61        4' Rohrfloete    61
     4' Spillfloete     61        2' Octave        61
     2' Superoctave     61    1 1/3' Quintfloete   61
 IV-VI  Mixture        330       II  Sesquialtera 122
     8' Trumpet         61   III-IV  Scharf       232
                                  8' Cromorne      61
        SWELL (III)                  Tremulant

     8' Bourdon         61           PEDAL
     8' Viole de Gambe  61
     8' Voix Celeste    54       16' Principal     12
     4' Spitzfloete     61       16' Subbass       32
 2 2/3' Nasat           61        8' Principal     32
     2' Waldfloete      61        8' Gedecktbass   12
 1 3/5' Tierce          61        4' Choralbass    32
III-IV  Plein Jeu      269        V  Mixture      160
    16' Dulzian         61       16' Posaune       32
     8' Trompette       61        8' Trumpet       12
     8' Hautbois        61
     4' Clairon         61
        Tremulant

        [Received from Jeff Scofield April 16, 2017]