Better Pipe Organ Database

Steere & Turner [John S. Steere] (1875)

Emmanuel Orthodox Church / Federated [Congregational] Church: Nave
25 Winthrop Terrace
Warren, MA

OHS convention: 1968

Images

2012-09-24 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Kamundell/Database Manager)

2024-03-13 - Facade (Pipe Organ Garage Sale/Scanlon Andrew)

2024-03-13 - Still image from a video on Pipe Organ Garage Sale page. Shows facade pipes removed. (Pipe Organ Garage Sale/Scanlon Andrew)

2023 - Builders nameplate (Pipe organ garage sale/Andrew Scanlon)

2023 - Drawknobs (Pipe organ garage sale/Andrew Scanlon)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
21 stops
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1983. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Was Congregational. Compass 58/27. -Database Manager

2012-06-05 - Updated through online information from Justin Murphy-Mancini. -Database Manager

2017-05-03 - Updated by Ian Abodeely, who has heard or played the organ.<br> The organ at Emmanuel Church is thankfully in playable condition and is used at all services. The hope of the congregation is to eventually restore the instrument to its original specification and state. All interested in visiting the instrument should contact the parish office, which will gladly arrange it. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Federated Church, Warren, Massachusetts
Steer & Turner, Westfield, Mass., 1875

GREAT -- 10 Stops
Bourdon  16'
Bourdon Bass 16'
Open Diapason  8'
Melodia  8'
Dulciana 8'
Octave 4'
Flute d'Amour  4'
Fifteenth  2'
Mixture III
Trumpet  8'

SWELL-- 9 Stops
Open Diapason  8'  (12w&46m)
Stopped Diapason  8'
German Gamba  8'  (12w&46m)
Salicional  8'
Aeoline  8'
Harmonique Flute  4'
Fifteenth  2;
Oboe  8' (46 Pipes)
Bassoon  8' (12 Pipes)
Vox Tremulant

PEDAL -- 2 Stops
Open Diapason  16'
Bourdon  16'

Couplers:
Swell to Great
Great to Pedale
Swell to Pedale

Bellows Signal
Balanced Swell Pedal

Pedal Movements:  (single action)
Great-Melodia & Dulciana
Great-Full
Great to Pedal Reversible

The Pedale is on one slider chest; the flutes are all of unusual design and the Melodia is harmonic from c#2.