Better Pipe Organ Database

Cole & Woodberry (1890)

First Baptist Church: Sanctuary; front gallery
298 Blackstone Street
Woonsocket, RI

Images

ca. 1900 - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Vintage postcard, submitted by James R. Stettner/James R. Stettner)

approx. 2020 - Organ case and facade in front gallery (Photograph by Church Facebook page. Photograph by Romaine Sands, submitted by William Worden/William Worden)

2020 - View of the console. (Church Facebook page. Photograph by Romaine Sands, submitted by William M. Worden/William M. Worden)

2020 - View of the organ gallery from the front of the church. (Church Facebook page. Photograph by Romaine Sands, submitted by William M. Worden/William M. Worden)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
19 stops
20 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: 61 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Has combination toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Stoplist in Richmond. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist taken from keydesk photos November 24, 2020

Woonsocket, Rhode Island
First Baptist Church

Cole & Woodberry, 1890 - Original Specifications


GREAT                                        COUPLERS
16'     Bourdon                              Swell to Pedals
8'      Open Diapason                        Great to Pedals
8'      Melodia
8'      Dulciana                             Swell to Great
4'      Octave
4'      Flute d'Amour
2 2/3'  Twelfth                              FOOT TRUNDLES (Labeled; l-r)
2'      Fifteenth                            Piano Swell - 
8'      Trumpet
 
                                             Forte Swell -
SWELL (Expressive)
8'      Violin Diapason
8'      Stᵈ Diapason                         Tremulant
8'      Salicional
8'      Aeoline                              Piano Great -
4'      Flauto Traverse
4'      Violina
2 Ranks Dolce Cornet                         Forte Great -
8'      Oboe
8'      Bassoon
                                             Reversible Great to Pedal

PEDAL
16'     Grand Open Diapason                  PEDAL MOVEMENTS
16'     Bourdon                              Swell Expression         (bal.)


ACTION: Mech. Key & Stop   VOICES: 19   STOPS: 20   RANKS: 20   PIPES: _____


NOTES
Free-standing and encased in a gallery in the front above the pulpit platform. 3-sectional facade with 39 pipes arranged: 11-17-11. Flanking either side of the case are what appear to be 6 wooden pipes - perhaps from either the 16' Grand Open Diapason or the 16' Bourdon.


Sources: OHS Database photos of the case and keydesk.


First Baptist Church
298 Blackstone Street
Woonsocket, RI. 02895                        Documented: November 24, 2020