New Old South Church
645 Boylston Street
Boston, MA
Images
2007-05-05 - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Wikipedia, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2018-09-09 - Church interior and front organ (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2015-07-05 - Rear organ (Photograph from Michael Patrick Shortal, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
Unknown - Church interior and front organ (Photograph by Church website, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
Unknown - Church interior and front organ (Photograph by http://www.bostonorganstudio.com/old-south-church, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
- 4 manuals
- 90 stops
- 112 registers
- 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 (Details Unknown)
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
- Has crescendo
- Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has combination toe pistons
- Has coupler thumb pistons
- Has coupler toe pistons
- Has tutti thumb pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2006-01-03 - Identified through information adapted from <i>E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List</i>, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: <br><i> Mechanical restoration with some tonal modifications to relocated and rebuilt E. M. Skinner Opus 308 (1920)</i> -Database Manager
2008-10-27 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Typed stoplist Source: from church website and Boston 2014 AGO Convention website Date not recorded
Boston, Massachusetts
Old South Church
Skinner Organ Company Opus 308 1921
Built for the Municipal Auditorium, St. Paul, Minnesota
Purchased in 1981 by Old South Church
Installation by Casavant Frères Ltée and Hokans-Knapp Associates (1982-1984)
Rebuilding and tonal changes by Nelson Barden Associates, Inc. (1987-1990)
in conjunction with Austin Organs, Inc.
4 manuals, 112 registers, 90 stops, 113 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN (7½" wind) SWELL ORGAN (6" & 10" wind)
16' Diapason 61 16' Bourdon 73
8' First Diapason 61 16' Dulciana 73 6"
8' Second Diapason 61 8' Diapason 73
8' Flûte harmonique 61 8' Gamba 73
8' Erzähler 61 8' Gamba Celeste 73
8' Erzähler Celeste (a#11) 51 8' Salicional 73 6"
String Organ -- 8' Voix Celeste 73 6"
4' Octave 61 8' Gedeckt 73 6"
4' Prestant 61 8' Spitz Flute 73 6"
4' Flute 61 8' Flute Celeste (TC) 61 6"
2 2/3' Twelfth 61 String Organ --
2' Fifteenth 61 4' Octave 61
1 3/5' Seventeenth 61 4' Flute 61 6"
Cornet III 183 4' Unda Maris II 122 6"
Grand Fourniture III-IV 208 2' Piccolo 61 6"
Mixture III 183 Fourniture IV 244
16' Ophicleide 61 Mixture III 183 6"
8' Tuba 61 16' Trumpet 73
4' Clarion 61 8' French Trumpet 73
Chimes (in String) 25 tubes 8' Cornopean 73
8' Oboe 73 6"
CHOIR ORGAN (8" wind) 8' Vox Humana 73 6"
16' Gamba 73 4' Clarion 61
8' Diapason 73 Tremolo
8' Concert Flute 73
8' Gemshorn 73 SOLO ORGAN (10" wind)
8' Gemshorn Celeste (TC) 61 8' Harmonic Flute 73
8' Kleine Erzähler II 134 8' Flauto Mirabilis (c25-d51) 25
String Organ -- 8' Gamba 73
4' Principal 73 8' Gamba Celeste 73
4' Flute 61 String Organ --
4' Flute Celeste II 61 8' Clarabella 73
2 2/3' Nazard 61 4' Hohlpfeife 61
2' Zauberflöte 61 Mixture II-III 171
1 3/5' Tierce 61 16' Heckelphone 73
16' Fagotto 73 8' French Horn 73
8' Flugel Horn 73 8' English Horn 73
8' Vox Humana 73 8' Corno di Bassetto 73
Tremolo 8' Orchestral Oboe 73
8' Harp (TC) -- 8' Tuba 73
4' Celesta (in String) 61 bars 4' Clarion 61
Tremolo
STRING ORGAN (10" wind) 8' Tuba Mirabilis (20" wind) 73
8' Gamba 73
8' Gamba Celeste 73 PEDAL ORGAN (6" wind)
8' Viole d'Orchestre 73 32' Diapason (26-32 Ant Diap) 25
8' Viole Celeste 73 32' Violone 56
8' Dulcet 73 32' Dulciana (ext Sw) 12
8' Dulcet Celeste 73 16' First Diapason 32
Tremolo 16' Second Diapason (ext Ant) 12
16' Violone (fr. 32') --
ANTIPHONAL ORGAN (8" wind) 16' Bourdon 61
8' Diapason 61 16' Diapason (Gt) --
8' Erzähler 61 16' Bourdon (Sw) --
8' Erzähler Celeste (TC) 49 16' Gamba (Ch) --
4' Octave 61 16' Dulciana (Sw) --
4' Flute 61 8' Octave 44
Fourniture IV 244 8' Cello (fr. 32' Vln) --
8' Chamade 61 8' Gedeckt (fr. 16') --
String Organ --
4' Octave (fr. 8') --
4' Flute (fr. 16') --
Mixture V 160
32' Bombarde (13" wind) 12
16' Trombone (20" wind) 56
16' Posaune (Sw) --
16' Fagotto (Ch) --
16' Heckelphone (So) --
8' Trumpet (fr. Tbn) --
4' Clarion (fr. Tbn) --
Chimes (Gt)
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2017-12-08]
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