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Lewis Levering (1907)

Hillside Universalist Church / Assemblies of God
Medford, MA

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

Images

Unknown - Organ Case and Keydesk (Photograph from the OHS Library & Archives; image courtesy of Bynum Petty/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
18 stops
14 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: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 25 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: None

Notes

2004-10-30 - The original builder was S. S. Hamill (1866) for Second Universalist Church, East Cambridge, Mass. Church closed in 1907 and organ sold to Hillside Universalist Church in Medford, Mass. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Organ moved by Lewis Levering and installed without change. -Database Manager

2015-04-09 - Hillside Universalist Church closed; building sold to Assemblies of God. -Database Manager

2015-04-09 - Moved via OCH to University Lutheran Church, East Lansing, Mich. Restored and enlarged by Dana Hull 1984. -Database Manager

2015-04-18 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Specification from OHS Convention Handbook, 1995 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Medford, Massachusetts
Hillside Universalist Church

S. S. Hamill   1866                               2 manuals, 14 stops, 14 ranks
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        GREAT ORGAN                            SWELL ORGAN
     8' Open Diapason           56 m       16' Bourdon (t.c.)          44 w
     8' Keraulophon (t.c.)      44 m        8' Open Diapason (t.c.)    44 m
     8' Dulciana (t.c.)         44 m        8' Stop'd Diapason (t.c.)  44 w
     8' Dulciana Bass           12 m        8' Stop'd Diapason Bass    12 w
     8' Melodia (t.c.)          44 w        4' Principal               56 m
     8' Melodia Bass            12 w        2' Fifteenth               56 m
     4' Flute (t.c.)            44 m        8' Oboe (t.c.)             44 m
 2-2/3' Twelfth                 56 m        8' Bassoon                 12 m
     2' Fifteenth               56 m          Tremulant

        PEDAL ORGAN                            COUPLERS
    16' Pedal Open Bass         25 w           Swell to Great
                                               Swell to Pedal
        MECHANICALS                            Great to Pedal
        Pedal Check


[Received from Bynum Petty  2015-04-09]

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