Better Pipe Organ Database

William Stevens (1863)

St. Paul's Episcopal Church: St. Anna's Chapel
160 High Street
Newburyport, MA

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
1 manuals
10 stops
9 registers
2 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 compass: 18 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Trigger/Hitch-Down Expression
Combination action: None

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1996. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Installed in chamber, no case. Hand blown until 1983. Good condition. -Database Manager

2006-09-06 - Updated through online information from Barbara Owen. -- Still in occasional use, 2006. -Database Manager

2008-06-12 - Updated through online information from Stephen Hall. -- Organ and chapel were recently refurbished, concert for organ and flute held June 13, 2008 to celebrate restoration project ("Boston Globe" article dated June 10). The organ was apparently walled in to the chamber with no access for service, restoration required removing the wall. It is pitched 1/2 tone sharp. -Database Manager

2008-09-15 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

Websites

CHAPEL_RESTORATION_BROCHURE.pdf [Church web site] - One photograph of keydesk (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)