Better Pipe Organ Database

Gress-Miles Organ Co. (1972)

South Congregational Church - First Baptist Church
90 Main Street
New Britain, CT

Images

2020-08-14 - Church exterior (Photograph by Wikipedia, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

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

2019-04-22 - Church interior (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2021-01-20 - Chancel and organ chambers (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Movable Console
3 manuals
39 stops
81 registers
4 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
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons

Notes

2006-05-08 - 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 Skinner Opus 739 (1928). -Database Manager

2016-06-14 - South Congregational merged with First Baptist Church in September 1974, using the South Congregational facility. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from The Diapason undocumented issue Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

        New Britain, Connecticut
        South Congregational Church

        Gress-Miles   1972   3/62
        _______________________________________________________

        GREAT                               POSiTIV
   
    16' Montre                          16' Gedecktpommer
    16' Rohrgedeckt          61          8' Montre           12
     8' Principal            49          8' Holzgedeckt      61
     8' Rohrfloete           12          8' Flute a Cheminee
     8' Harmonic Flute       49          4' Principal        61
     4' Octave               61          4' Rohrfloete       61
     4' Spitzfloete          61      2 2/3' Nasat            49
 3 1/5' Gross Tierce         61          2' Octave           61
 2 2/3' Nasard               61          2' Blockfloete      12
     2' Superoctave          61      1 3/5' Tierce           49
     2' Waldfloete           12      1 1/3' Quintfloete      12
 1 3/5' Tierce               12          1' Siffloete        12
 IV-VI  Mixture             330      IV-VI  Scharf          330
III-IV  Scharf              232          I  Zimbelfloete     --
    16' Trumpet                         16' Dulzian          12
     8' Trumpet              61          8' Trompette        61
        Tremulant                        8' Cromorne         61
     8' Trompette-a-Pavillon 61          4' Clairon          12
     4' Clairon-a-Pavillon   12             Tremulant
        Chimes               pf
        Zimbelstern                         PEDAL

        SWELL                           16' Principal        32
                                        16' Subbass          32
    16' Quintaton            61         16' Rohrgedeckt      GT
     8' Bourdon              61         16' Quintaton        SW
     8' Quintadena           12     10 2/3' Quintfloete      --
     8' Viole de Gambe       61          8' Principal        12
     8' Voix Celeste         61          8' Gedeckt          12
     4' Flute Octaviante     61          4' Octave           12
     4' Octave Viole         12          4' Harmonic Flute   GT
     4' Octave Celeste       12          2' Superoctave      12
 2 2/3' Quint                61          2' Harmonic Flute   GT
     2' Principal            61       IV-V  Basse de Cornet  --
     2' Octavin              12     VI-VII  Mixture         206
 1 3/5' Terz                 61         32' Posaune          12
 1 1/3' Quint                12         16' Posaune          32
     1' Octave               12         16' Basson           SW
 III-V  Zimbel              269         16' Dulzian          PO
    16' Basson               12          8' Trumpet          12
     8' Trompette            61          8' Basson           SW
     8' Hautbois             61          8' Dulzian          PO
     8' Voix Humaine         61          4' Clarion          12
     4' Clairon              12          4' Cromorne         PO
        Tremulant                        2' Cornett          12

             [Received from Jeff Scofield June 14, 2016]