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Cole & Woodberry (1892)

Highland Congregational Church: Sanctuary
460 Westford Street
Lowell, MA

OHS convention: 1959

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Images

ca. 1970 - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Montefiore Synangogue: online document, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Unknown - Organ facade (Photograph from the 1982 OHS Convention Handbook./Database Manager)

Unknown - Keydesk (Photograph from the 1982 OHS Convention Handbook./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
17 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: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Has combination trundles
Has hitchdown couplers

Notes

2004-10-30 - Goodwin case. Tonal changes by Robert Reich (2-19) in 1958. [Additional alterations by Andover & Fisk?] Bldg. razed in 1970. Organ relocated through OCH to St. John's Episcopal, Kirkland, WA in 1970. [Visited by OHS convention in 1959.] -Database Manager

2008-10-23 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ was housed behind a rather unique, asymmetrical,and fanciful case front in the front, left side of the sanctuary. Stop names are a bit a-traditional, having "Italianate" names like: Flautileno, Flauto Soave, Dolciano, Violettino, Corno di Cappella, etc. The combinations are via fixed foot trundles - two per division. There also Swell to Great sub octave and octave couplers via hitch-down. By 1969, the building and organ had become the property of Montefiore Synagogue. When the building wa razed in 1970, the organ was purchased by John Merriman and stored in Methuen, MA. It was later offered for resale through the Organ Clearing House, and relocated to St. John's Episcopal in Kirkland, WA. in 1974 (not 1970, as indicated above). -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Typed stoplist (Source: The Tracker, Vol. 57, No. 2) Date not recorded

Lowell, Massachusetts
Highland Congregational Church

COLE & WOODBERRY, 1892 - Original Specifications

GREAT                                        COUPLERS (Mech. Finger Pistons)
Gt. 8'     Principal Diapason.   61          Swell to Peds.
Gt. 8'     Flauto Concerto.      61          Great to Peds.
Gt. 8'     Flautileno. [1]       49
Gt. 8'     Viola Dolce.          61          Swell to Great
Gt. 4'     Octava Acuta          61
Gt. 4'     Flauta Soave.         61
Gt. 2 2/3' Quinta Octava.        --
Gt. 2'     Octavino.             --


SWELL (Expressive)               
Sw.  16' Contra Viola.     (tc)  49
Sw.  8'  Viola Principale.       56
Sw.  8'  Doppel Flote.           61
Sw.  8'  Dolciano.               61
Sw.  8'  Viola Aetheria.         61
Sw.  4'  Hohlpfeife.             61
Sw.  4'  Salicetto Dolce.        61
Sw.  2'  Violettino.             61
Sw.  8'  Corno di Cappella       61
         Swell Tremolo

PEDAL               
Ped. 16' Bordone Principale.     27
Ped. 16' Lieblich Gedeckt.       27
Ped. 8'  Flauto Basso.   [prep]  --

Bellows Signal


NOTES
1. To tenor c; common bass with Flauto Concerto.
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[Received online from T. Daniel Hancock, 2013-09-05;
Corrected & updated by James R. Stettner, 2020-01-19]

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