Better Pipe Organ Database

Paul Fritts & Co., Organbuilders Opus 21 (2001)

Residence: Joan Lippincott
Wellfleet, MA

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

Images

2019-10-03 - Organ case with keydesk and facade (Photograph by Erik McLeod/Database Manager)

2019-10-03 - Lower case with keydesk and pedalboard (Photograph by Erik McLeod/Database Manager)

2019-10-03 - Detail of facade and carved pipe shades (Photograph by Erik McLeod/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
5 stops
6 registers
2 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Balanced Tracker)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: No Enclosed Divisions
Combination action: None

Notes

2005-11-05 - Identified through information from the builder's web site. -Database Manager

2009-02-21 - Updated through on-line information from Paul Fritts. -Database Manager

2009-06-08 - Updated through on-line information from Jude Fritts. -Database Manager

2019-10-03 - Updated from information provided by Erik McLeod of Paul Fritts & Co. -- The organ has been donated by Joan Lippincott to Princeton Theological Seminary where it will be reinstalled in a choral rehearsal room. The organ removal by Erik McLeod began October 3, 2019. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist from James R. Stettner Source: Stoplist copied from the builder's website Date not recorded

Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Residence: Joan Lippincott

PAUL FRITTS & CO., Opus 21, 2001 - Original Specifications


MANUAL I                                     COUPLERS (Drawknob)
   8'  Gedackt                      58          Manual II to Pedal
   4'  Principal*              (II)  --          Manual I  to Pedal
   4'  Rohrflöte                    58
   2'  Octave                       58          Manual II to Manual I


MANUAL II                                    ACCESSORIES
   8'  Principal                    58          Tremulant
   4'  Octave                       58


PEDAL
   No independent registers

*Tramsmission

ACTION: Mech. Key & Stop     VOICES: 5     STOPS: 6     RANKS: 5     PIPES: 290


NOTES


Sources: Fritts opus list; photos



Residence: Joan Lippincott
164 Long Pond Rd. 
Wellfleet, MA. 02667                         Documented: October 3, 2019

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