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Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. Opus 885 (1932)

Harvard Congregational / United Parish
210 Harvard Street
Brookline, MA

OHS convention: 2000


Images


2012-09-01 - Sanctuary interior (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)

2012-09-01 - Sanctuary interior to rear (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)

2012-09-01 - Left Stopjamb (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)

2012-09-01 - Right Stopjamb (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)

2012-09-01 - Coupler rail (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)

2012-09-01 - Church exterior (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)

1999-05-04 - Chancel and Chamber Grillework (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

1999-05-04 - Console (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

Unknown - Nameplate (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

Unknown - Console (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

2009-10-19 - Console (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

Consoles

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Notes

2006-11-16 - 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> Extant; unaltered; Chapel organ (two-manual console) playable from main console as 'Echo'; some restoration by Richard Lahaise, 1987-92; continued restoration by Nelson Barden & Associates.</i> -Database Manager

2018-08-13 - Merged in 1970 with St. Mark's Methodist and The Baptist Church in Brookline to become United Parish. -Database Manager


Stoplist

From Allen Kinzey via <i>The Aeolian-Skinner Archives</i> Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Brookline, Massachusetts
Harvard Congregational Parish

Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co., Inc.   Opus 885   1932   4 manuals, 44 stops, 52 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN                                SWELL ORGAN
     16' Diapason              61               16' Bourdon               73
      8' First Diapason        61                8' Diapason              73
      8' Second Diapason       61                8' Rohrflote             73
      8' Harmonic Flute        61                8' Salicional            73
      8' Erzähler              61                8' Voix Celeste          73
      4' Octave                61                8' Flute Celeste II     134
  2 2/3' Twelfth               61                4' Octave                73
      2' Fifteenth             61                4' Flute Triangulaire    73
     IV  Harmonics            244                2' Flautino              61
      8' Trumpet               61                V  Mixture              305
                                                16' Waldhorn              73
         CHOIR ORGAN                             8' Cornopean             73
     16' Klein Erzähler        73                8' Oboe                  73
      8' Geigen Diapason       73                8' Vox Humana            73
      8' Concert Flute         73                4' Clarion               73
      8' Klein Erzähler        12                   Tremolo
      8' Erzähler Celeste (TC) 61                8' Harp                  CH
      4' Flute d'Amour         73                4' Celesta               CH
  2 2/3' Nazard                61
      8' Clarinet              73                   PEDAL ORGAN
         Tremolo                                32' Contra Bourdon        32
      8' Harp (TC)             --               16' Diapason              32
      4' Celesta               61 bars          16' Diapason              GT
                                                16' Bourdon               12
         SOLO-ECHO ORGAN                        16' Echo Lieblich         SW
      8' French Horn           73               16' Echo Bourdon (Echo)   32
      8' English Horn          73                8' Octave                12
         Cathedral Chimes      25 tubes          8' Gedeckt               12
      8' Diapason              73                8' Still Gedeckt         SW
      8' Gedeckt               73               32' Fagotto               12
      8' Dolce                 73               16' Trombone              32
      8' Unda Maris (TC)       61               16' Waldhorn              SW
      4' Flauto Traverso       73                8' Tromba                12
      8' Flügel Horn           73                   Chimes                SO
         Tremolo


The Echo also serves as the Chapel Organ, which has its own two-manual console:
 
         GREAT ORGAN
      8' Diapason
      8' Gedeckt
      8' Dulciana
      8' Unda Maris
      4' Flute Triangulaire
      8' Flügel Horn
         Tremolo

         SWELL ORGAN
         (Duplex of Great)
 
         PEDAL ORGAN
     16' Bourdon


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2016-08-30]


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