Better Pipe Organ Database

William W. Laws (1930 ca.)

St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church
290 North Street
Salem, MA

Images

2021-09-28 - Kimball console from St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Malden, MA. (Photograph by Wayne Johnson/Wayne Johnson)

2024-03-13 - Exterior (Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
26 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Has crescendo
Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons

Main (Replacement)

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
3 manuals
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons

Notes

2005-10-19 - Identified through online information from William Catanesye. -Database Manager

2021-10-01 - In 2013, the 1927 W.W. Kimball Co. console originally built in 1927 for the Circle Theatre in Philadelphia, PA. and moved (entire organ) to St. Paul's Episcopal in Malden in 1954 - was relocated here to St. Thomas the Apostle to replace the original 1930's William F. Laws console. -Jim Stettner

Stoplist

Source: Taken from console 9/28/21

William W. Laws (1930ca.)
St. Thomas the Apostle R.C. Church
Salem, MA

GREAT (exposed, right side of balcony)
Violone 16 (Swell)
Open Diapason 8 (1-12 open wood)
Melodia 8
Viola da Gamba 8
Dulciana 8	
Octave 4
Flute d’ Amour 4 (ext. Ped. Subbass)
Mixture IV
Trumpet 8
Clarion 4 (ext.)
Chimes
Pedal to Great

ANTIPHONAL GREAT (prep. for)
Principal 8
Octave 4
Fifteenth 2
Mixture III
Blank

CHOIR 
Gedeckt 8 (ext. Ped. Subbass)
Dulciana 8 (prep. for)
Gemshorn 4 (prep. for)
Fifteenth 2 (prep. for)
Tromba 8 (prep. for)
Clarinet 8 (prep. for)

CHOIR ANTIPHONAL (prep. for)
Dolcan 8
Cor de Nuit 8
Prestant 4
Octave 2
Blank 

SWELL (enclosed, left side of balcony)
Bourdon 16
Open Diapason 8
Stopped Diapason 8
Viol d’Orchestre 8
Voix Celeste 8
Aeoline 8
Harmonic Flute 4
Flautino 2
Oboe 8
Vox Humana 8
Tremolo
Swell Tremulant Varie (doesn’t work)
3 Blank
Swell to Pedal 5 1/3
Pedal to Swell

PEDAL
Untersatz 32 (resultant)
Contre Bourdon 32 (resultant)
Subbass 16
Violone 16 (1-12 Gedeckt)
Lieblich Gedeckt 16 (Swell)
Octave 8
Stopped Flute 8
Still Gedeckt 8
Choral Bass 4
Trombone 16 (prep. for)
Trumpet 8 (Great)

ANTIPHONAL PEDAL (prep. for)
Echo Bourdon 16