Better Pipe Organ Database

Unknown Builder (1886)

St. John's Roman Catholic Church
Northfield, VT

OHS convention: 2013

Images

2012-09-21 - Church interior: Chancel (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2012-09-21 - Organ case, facade, and keydesk (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2012-09-21 - Great pipework - Trumpet - behind Swell trackers (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2012-09-21 - Organ façade and keydesk (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2012-09-21 - Left stop jamb (Swell stops, pedal stop, tremolo) (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2012-09-21 - Right stop jamb (Great stops) (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

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
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Not Meeting AGO Standards)

Notes

2004-10-30 - Altered. From College Street Congregational, Burlington, VT. -Database Manager

2005-09-04 - Online update from Michael Loris -- New reservoir and blower, Michael Loris, 1977. -Database Manager

2010-05-07 - Updated through online information from Marilyn Polson. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from 2013 OHS Convention research Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Northfield, Vermont
St. John's Roman Catholic Church

W. B. D. Simmons, Boston, Mass., 1865

GREAT                               SWELL                          PEDAL

Open Diapason      8'               Bourdon             16' (TC)   Open Bass   16'
Hohlflöte Treble   8' (TC)          Keraulophon          8' (TC)
Dulciana           8' (TC)          Stopped Diapason     8' (TC)
Unison Bass        8'               Stop Diapason Bass   8'
Principal          4'               Principal            4' (TC)
Flute              4'               Principal Bass       4'
Twelfth        2 2/3'               Mixture
Fifteenth          2'               Oboe                 8' (TC)
Mixture                             Tremolo
Trumpet            8' 

COUPLERS

Great and Swell
Pedal and Swell
Pedal and Great


Straight, flat pedalboard, 25 notes
Balanced swell pedal replaces hitchdown original

[Received from Marilyn Polson 2012-07-21]