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Unknown Builder (1979)

Residence: John & Linda Shortridge: Auditorium
Phippsburg, ME

OHS convention: 1992

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

Images

Date Unknown - Organ in attached auditorium (Photograph by Unknown photographer; courtesy of Prof. Geo. B. Stauffer, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
2 manuals
16 stops
18 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 59 notes
Pedal compass: 25 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Trigger/Hitch-Down Expression
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Has combination trundles

Notes

2004-10-30 - The original builder was Thomas Appleton (1840). -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - This entry represents the installation of a used organ. Originally built for the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts. It was replaed there by the Hook fir, who took the organ in-trade, and then installed it in the United Baptist Church in Biddeford, Maine. Acquired by the Shortridges in 1979 via the Organ Clearing House. Relocated, temporarily, to St. Bartholomew's Episcopal, Yarmouth, Maine by David Wallace ca. 1996. Then to Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass. [never installed]; next to Oberlin Conservatory in Oberlin, Ohio [stored; never installed]; and finally to Rutgers University where it has been fully restored by Columbia Organ Works, but remains stored by the builder pending installation in a University historic chapel. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist copied from a related OHS Database entry ((Stoplist: OH 1963:19) 1963

Phippsburg, Maine
Residence: John & Linda Shortridge

Thomas Appleton, 1840
Organ Clearing House, 1979 - Installation


      GREAT (GGG-f3, 59 notes)
[8']  Open Diapason
[8']  Dulciana [TG]
[8']  St. Diapn Treble [TG]
[8']  St. Dia. Bass (24 pipes)
[4']  Principal
[4']  Flute
[3']  Twelfth
[2']  Fifteenth
[III] Sesquialtra
[8']  Trumpet [TG]

      SWELL (Expressive; chest is TG, 35 notes)
[8']  Open Diapason
[8']  Dulciana
[8']  St. Diapn 
[4']  Principal
[III] Cornet
[8']  Hautboy 
      Tremulant

      SWELL BASS (Unenclosed; GGGG - TG, 24 notes)
[8']  St. Diapn Bass   (24 pipes)
[4']  Principal Bass   (24 pipes)

      PEDAL (25 notes, CCC-C))
[16'] Subbass

      COUPLERS (Drawknob)
Pedal Coupler [notched]: first position is Sw-Ped; 
                         second position is Gt-Ped.

Great to Swell (Swell to Great)

      COMPOSITION FOOT TRUNDLES
Great Piano -

Great Forte -

      EXPRESSION FOOT TRUNDLES
Swell Expression       (hitch-down)

      ACCESSORIES
Bellows Signal

      NOTES
Pedal compass altered late in the 19th century. Pedal compass originally
began on GGGG.
Sesquialtra: 17-19-22; 15-17-19; 8-12-15.
Cornet: 12-15-17

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