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Andover Organ Co. Opus R-395 (2003)

First Parish Church, UCC
9 Cleaveland Street
Brunswick, ME

Images

Unknown - Nave, Gallery, and Organ Case (Photograph (1981) by Jim Lewis/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Detached Keydesk (Mechanical Action)
2 manuals
22 stops
22 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: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: None

Notes

2005-09-08 - The original organ was by Hutchings, Plaisted & Co., 1883 -Database Manager

2005-09-09 - Online update from Ray Cornils -- The organ was restored with alterations by the Andover Organ Company in 2003/04. They built a completely new key action, removed the Great to Great 4' coupler installed in 1985, added a Cornet II (12-17) to the Swell, combined the Sw 8' Oboe (TC) and 8' Bassoon (12 pipes) onto one stop knob, increased the scale of the Swell 4' Violina making it a 4' Principal, increasing the scale of 2' Flautina (which was of string scale and tone) to 2' Principal, increasing the scale of Pedal 8' Violoncello to 8' Violin Diapason, and restoring the Great/Pedal reversible combination pedal which had been taken out in 1969. Tremolo and Blowers Signal are now on stop knobs. -Database Manager

2007-10-03 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

2016-11-28 - Updated through online information from Harold Stover. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Specification compiled Source: Source not recorded May 22, 2004

Brunswick, Maine
First Parish Church, United Church of Christ

Hutchings, Plaisted & Co., Opus 112, 1883
Andover Organ Co., Opus R-395, 2003 - Rebuild
2 manuals, 22 stops, 25 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN                                  COUPLERS (Drawknob) 
8'     Open Diapason             61          Swell to Pedal
8'     Dulciana                  61          Great to Pedal
8'     Melodia                   61
4'     Octave                    61          Swell to Great
4'     Flute d'Amour             61
2 2/3' Twelfth                   61
2'     Fifteenth                 61          FOOT TRUNDLES
III    Mixture                  183          Great Piano - 
8'     Trumpet                   61
                                             Gr. to Ped. - Reversible

SWELL ORGAN (Expressive)                     Great Forte - 
16'    Bourdon                   61
8'     Violin Diapason           61
8'     Stopped Diapason          61          PEDAL MOVEMENTS
8'     Viola                     61          Swell Expression        (bal.)
4'     Principal                 61 a
4'     Flute Harmonique          61
2'     Flautina                  61 a        MISC CONTROLS
II     Cornet                   122 b        Blowers Signal
8'     Cornopean                 61
8'     Oboe & Basson             61 c
       Swell Tremolo                         NOTES
                                             a  increased in scale
                                             b  addition by Andover, 2003
PEDAL ORGAN                                  c  originally two knobs
16'    Double Open Diapason      30          d  originally hitch-down pedal
16'    Bourdon                   30
8'     Violoncello               30 a


ACTION: Mech. Key     VOICES: 22     STOPS: 22     RANKS: 25     PIPES: 1,432
           & Stop


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2015-07-13]

Documents

(2004-05-22) History of the First Parish Organ Description of the various stages in the life of the Hutchings, Plaisted & Co. Opus 112, 1883 - provided by the Parish and submitted by Paul Dessau. -Jim Stettner

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