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Schoenstein & Co. Opus 149 (2006)

Christ Church, Episcopal
Zero Garden Street
Cambridge, MA

Images


2008-07-07 - Facades and console (Photo by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

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Notes

2007-01-29 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The pipe façade for the Schoenstein was inspired by the 1762 Snetzler organ, which was both the first pipe organ for the parish and the first pipe organ in Cambridge. -Database Manager

2007-11-28 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

2008-07-28 - Updated through information submitted by Jack Bethards, Schoenstein & Co. </i> -Database Manager


Stoplist

Stoplist from dedication brochure Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Cambridge, Massachusetts
Christ Church (Episcopal)

Schoenstein & Co
Opus 149, installed 2005

The organ has: 
  3 manuals and pedal
  2,840 pipes, 50 ranks
  43 voices (stops)

Stoplist:

GREAT (enclosed)	
 16	Gamba			  12	
  8	First Open Diapason	  61	facade, not enclosed
  8	Second Open Diapason	  61	
  8	Harmonic Flute		  61	facade, not enclosed
  8	Gamba			  61
  8	Gamba Celeste		  61
  8	Bourdon			  61	
  4	Principal		  61	
  4	Claribel Flute		  61	
  2 2/3 Twelfth 		  61	
  2	Fifteenth		  61	
  1 3/5	Seventeenth 		  54	
  1 1/3	Mixture III-IV 		 186
  8	Trumpet			  --	Choir
  8	Clarinet		  --	Choir
  8	Tuba			  --	Choir
	Chimes 
	Cymbelstern		   	5 bells
  
SWELL	
 16	Lieblich Bourdon 	  61	Wood
   8	Open Diapason		  61
   8	Stopped Diapason 	  12	
   8	Echo Gamba		  61
   8	Vox Angelica		  61
   8	Flauto Dolce *		  61
   8	Flute Celeste *		  49	from Tenor C
   4	Gemshorn		  61
   4	Harmonic Flute		  61
   4	Flauto Dolce *		  12
   4	Flute Celeste *		  12
   2	Flageolet		  61
   2	Mixture III-V *		 235
   8	Oboe			  61
   8	Vox Humana *		  61
 16	Contra Fagotto*		  61
   8	Cornopean*		  61
   4	Clarion*		  61
	Tremulant
        * Stops under double expression

CHOIR 
 16	Dulciana		  12
  8	Open Diapason		  --	Great 2nd Diapason
  8	Concert Flute		  49	1-12 common with Open Diapason
  8	Dulciana		  61
  8	Unda Maris		  49
  4	Fugara			  61
  4	Forest Flute		  61
  2 2/3	Nazard 			  61
  2	Salicet			  61
  2	Harmonic Piccolo	  61
  1 3/5	Tierce (TC)		  49
  8	Trumpet			  61
  8	English Horn		  61
  8	Clarinet		  61
  8 	Tuba 			  61
	Variable Tremulant
  8	Tuben III		  --	Swell chorus reeds playing in unison
	Harp
	Celesta
    
PEDAL
 32	Sub Bass		  12	1-7 resultant
 16	Open Wood		  32
 16	Sub Bass		  32
 16	Gamba			  --	Great
 16	Dulciana		  --	Choir
 16	Lieblich Bourdon	  --	Swell
  8	Principal		  32
  8	Flute			  --	Great Harmonic Flute
  8	Stopped Diapason	  --	Swell
  8	Dulciana		  --	Choir
  4	Fifteenth		  32
  4	Flute			  --	Great Harmonic Flute
 32	Contra Fagotto		  12	ext from Swell
 16	Ophicleide		  12	ext from Choir Tuba
 16	Contra Fagotto		  --	Swell
  8	Tuba			  --	Choir
  4	Tuba			  --	Choir
  4	Trumpet			  --	Choir

[Received on line from Stephen Hall April 12, 2009.]

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