Better Pipe Organ Database

Owner

Smithsonian Institution
Constitution Ave., NW
Washington, DC

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

Images

2018-01-02 - Organ Case and Keydesk (Photograph by David M Storey/Database Manager)

2018-01-02 - Right Stop Jamb (Photograph by David M Storey/Database Manager)

2018-01-02 - Left Stop Jamb (Photograph by David M. Storey/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
1 manuals
8 stops
10 registers
1 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 17 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight

Notes

2004-10-30 - This entry represents the installation of a used organ. Identified from a related OHS Database extry. 1. Originally, Free Street Baptist in Portland, ME. 2. 1872, to Baptist Church in Buxton, Maine by Hook. 3. 1961, removed by Peter Perkins for his Portland, ME. residence. 4. 1964, to C. B. Fisk for refurbishing; then to Our Lady of Good Voyage Roman Catholic Church in Gloucester, ME. 5. 19??, here, to Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. -Database Manager

2023-08-28 - Organ dismantled January 2018, packed and put in deep storage. -David Storey

Stoplist

Original document from David M Storey. Source: From console knobs 2018-01-24

Washington, DC
Smithsonian Institution

Thomas Appleton, 1855


      MANUAL
[8']  Open Diap Treble
[8']  Op Diap Bass  (Open Diapason)
[8']  Dulciana
[8']  St. Diap. Treble
[8']  St. Diap. Bass   (Stopt Diapason)
[4']  Principal
[4']  Flute
[3']  Twelfth
[2']  Fifteenth
[8']  Hautboy

      PEDAL (17n)
Sub Bass & Keys

(No independent registers. Simple coupler
from the manual.)


Manual Compass  G-F, 58 notes, no low G#
Pedal Compass G-C, 17 notes, no low G#,

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