First Church, Unitarian
66 Marlborough Street
Boston, MA
Images
2013-03-25 - New building incorporating the shell and tower of the old (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
1960's - Photo taken shortly before the fire (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
1925 - Chancel Organ (Photograph from an archival source: THE AMERICAN ORGANIST, November 1932, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
1925 - Gallery Organ (Photograph from an archival source: THE AMERICAN ORGANIST, November 1932, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
1925 - Console (Photograph from an archival source: THE AMERICAN ORGANIST, November 1932, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
- 4 manuals
- 92 stops
- 114 registers
- 9 divisions
- 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
- 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
Notes
2006-03-23 - 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> #241 moved with new console for double organ incorporating Hutchings-Votey, #1513; Hutchings-Votey overhauled in 1928; three additions in 1930, #551-A; burned in 1968; replaced by Casavant, #3129 in new building.</i> -Database Manager
2021-07-03 - The large 129-stop console (with double rows of couplers) was added in 1925 when Op. 241 was brought over from South Congregational Church and installed in the Channcel of First Church. The console played both organs. The crescendo registers were, from left, Chancel Swell, Gallery Swell, Chancel and Gallery Choir, Chancel Solo, Chancel Register, Gallery Register. William E. Zeuch, vice-president of Skinner, was organist at the church at the time the 1925 work was done. The organ was destroyed by fire in 1968. -Jeff Scofield
2021-07-03 - The church and organ burned in 1968, leaving just the shell of the building and the tower, all of which were included in a contemporary-brutalist style replacement building completed in 1972; it has 3/64 Casavant Op. 3140. -Jeff Scofield
Stoplist
From Allen Kinzey via <i>The Aeolian-Skinner Archives</i> Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Boston, Massachusetts
First Church, Unitarian
Skinner Organ Company Opus 551 1925 4 manuals, 92 stops, 101 ranks
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GALLERY ORGAN – 1890 HUTCHINGS-VOTEY, OPUS 1513
GREAT ORGAN SWELL ORGAN
16' Bourdon 17 PED 16' Bourdon 73
8' First Diapason 61 8' Diapason 73
8' Second Diapason 61 8' Salicional 73
8' Third Diapason 61 8' Voix Celeste 73
8' Waldflöte 61 8' Spitzflöte 73
8' Erzähler 61 8' Flute Celeste (TC) 61
8' Philomela (Diap.) 29 PED 8' Rohrflöte 73
8' Rohrflöte SW 8' Aeoline 73
8' Strings II 136 8' Unda Maris 61
8' Aeoline SW 4' Octave 73
4' Octave 61 4' Flute Triangulaire 73
4' Flute Triangulaire SW 2' Fifteenth 61
2' Fifteenth 61 III Mixture (15-19-22) 183
V Mixture 305 16' Posaune 73
(15-17-19-21-22) 8' Cornopean 73
16' Posaune SW 8' Flugel Horn 73
8' Tromba 68 8' Vox Humana 73
8' Cornopean SW 4' Clarion 73
4' Clarion 68 Tremolo
Tremolo
Chimes PEDAL ORGAN
16' Diapason 32
CHOIR ORGAN 16' Bourdon 32
8' Geigen Principal 61 16' Violone 32
8' Gamba 61 10 2/3' Bourdon --
8' Concert Flute 61 8' Octave 12
4' Flute 61 8' Bourdon 12
2 2/3' Nazard 61 8' Gamba CH
1 3/5' Tierce 61 8' Gedeckt SW
8' Orchestral Oboe 61 32' Trombone 32
8' Clarinet 61 16' Trombone 12
Tremolo 16' Posaune SW
8' Harp (TC) -- 8' Trombone 12
4' Celesta 61 bars Chimes GT
SOLO ORGAN
8' Flute 68
8' Orchestral Flute 68
8' Gross Gamba 68
8' Gamba Celeste 68
8' Tuba 68
8' French Horn 68
8' English Horn 68
4' Tuba Clarion 68
Tremolo
Chimes GT
CHANCEL ORGAN - 1915 ERNEST M.SKINNER CO., OPUS 241
GREAT ORGAN SWELL ORGAN
16' Diapason 61 16' Bourdon 61
8' First Diapason 61 8' Diapason 61
8' Second Diapason 61 8' Stopped Flute 61
8' Third Diapason 61 8' Salicional 61
8' Melodia 61 8' Voix Celeste (TC) 49
8' Gemshorn 61 8' Spitzflöte 61
8' Gamba 61 8' Flute Celeste (TC) 49
8' Gamba Celeste 61 4' Octave 61
4' Octave 61 4' Flute 61
4' Waldflöte 61 2' Flautino 61
2' Fifteenth 61 16' Fagotto 61
III Harmonics (17-19-22) 183 8' Cornopean 61
16' Trumpet 61 8' Oboe 61
8' Trumpet 61 8' Vox Humana 61
4' Clarion 61 4' Clarion 61
Tremolo
CHOIR ORGAN
16' Dulciana 61 PEDAL ORGAN
8' Violin Diapason 61 32' Bourdon 32
8' Concert Flute 61 16' Diapason 32
8' Dulciana 61 16' Bourdon 12
8' Unda Maris (TC) 49 16' Violone 32
4' Rohrflöte 61 16' Gedeckt SW
4' Dulciana 61 10 2/3' Bourdon --
2' Piccolo 61 8' Diapason 12
8' Clarinet 61 8' Bourdon 12
Tremolo 8' Violone 12
16' Trombone 32
8' Trombone 12
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2014-08-14]
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