Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 3140 (1972)

First Church, Unitarian Universalist: Meeting House
66 Marlborough Street
Boston, MA

Images

2022-05-12 - Organ façade (Photograph by Stephen St. Denis/Stephen St. Denis)

2022-05-12 - Organ in the front of the sanctuary (Photograph by Stephen St. Denis/Stephen St. Denis)

2013-03-25 - Church exterior, new building utilizing the shell and tower of the old (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Unknown - Console (Photograph by Church Website, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2013-03-25 - Church interior and organ case (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Keydesk Attached
3 manuals
43 stops
43 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Manual compass: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

2006-03-23 - Identified through information adapted from E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: Replaced E. M. Skinner Opus 551/551-A (burned 1968) in new building. -Database Manager

2010-12-17 - Updated through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

2021-07-03 - The building, including the 250-seat sanctuary, includes in its design element the walls and tower of the previous building, which was destroyed by fire in 1968 along with its 101-rank E M Skinner. -Jeff Scofield

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the factory specifications Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       Boston, Massachusetts
       First Church in Boston, Unitarian

       Casavant   Op. 3140   1972   3/63

       Courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives
       St. Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada
       ________________________________________

       GREAT                   SWELL
   16' Quintaden    56      8' Gedacktflöte  56
    8' Prinzipal    56      8' Salizional    56
    8' Rohrflöte    56      8' Vox coelestis 44 tc
    4' Oktav        56      4' Spitzflöte    56
    4' Waldflöte    56      2' Gemshorn      56
2 2/3' Quinte       56     II  Sesquialtera  88 tc
    2' Oktav        56    III  Kleinmixtur  168
    V  Kornett  tc 185      8' Oboe          56
   VI  Mixtur      336         Tremulant
   16' Dulzian      56
    8' Trompete     56         PEDAL
                           16' Prinzipal     32
       POSITIV             16' Subbass       32
    8' Gedackt      56      8' Oktav         32
    4' Prinzipal    56      8' Bordun        32
    4' Koppelflöte  56      4' Choralbass    32
2 2/3' Nasat        56      4' Rohrpfeife    32
    2' Oktav        56      2' Nachthorn     32
    2' Blockflöte   56      V  Mixtur       160
1 3/5' Terz         56     16' Posaune       32
1 1/3' Quintflöte   56     16' Fagott        32
    1' Sifflöte     56      8' Trompete      32
   IV  Scharf      224      4' Schalmei      32
  III  Zimbel      168         Tremulant
    8' Krummhorn    56
       Tremulant

[Received online from Jeff Scofield December 18, 2010]