Better Pipe Organ Database

Franklin S. Whiting (1833)

St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Intersection of Route 23 and Route 8
Otis, MA

OHS convention: 1994

Images

Unknown - Builder nameplate (Photograph from an archival source: 1994 OHS Handbook, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

Unknown - Undated photo of the organ in a loft (Photograph from an archival source: 1994 OHS Handbook, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

Consoles

Keydesk

Organ type: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
1 manuals
4 stops
1 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal Type: No Pedalboard
Combination action: None

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1994 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Restored R. Hamar 1965. -Database Manager

2018-11-23 - Updated by Jeffrey Gonyeau, listing this web site as a source of information: http://www.cccspfld.org/index.php/worship-and-music/music/organ-specs. <br> <br> -Database Manager

2020-08-27 - The organ was removed from St. Paul's on Thursday, October 29, 2015 by Messrs. Czelusniak et Dugal for refurbishing. It was reinstalled in Christ Church Cathedral in Springfield, Massachusetts in May, 2016. -Jim Stettner

2022-02-03 - The organ, which cost $110, was paid for by the Berkshire Bar Association, of which Squire Filley was President, and installed in 1833. -- *1994 OHS Handbook* -Paul R. Marchesano

2024-06-03 - Updated through online information from Norman Bliss: Instrument is one manual with no pedals, and is winded by a foot pump operated by the organist. -Jim Stettner

Stoplist

Source: 1994 OHS Handbook

Manual (58 notes GGG, AAA-f) Open Diapason 8 (42 w&m), Stopd. Diapason 8 (58 w), Principal 4 (58 w&m), Fifteenth 2 (58 m)

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#65225 - Czelusniak et Dugal, Inc. (2016)