Ste. Marie's Roman Catholic Church
378 Notre Dame Avenue
Manchester, NH
Images
1993 - Organ facade in rear gallery, before restoration (Photograph from an archival source: Church website, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)
1993 - Organ facade pipes closeup, before restoration (Photograph from an archival source: Church website, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)
1960 - Image of ceiling painting restoration with organ visible in rear (Photograph from an archival source: Church website, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)
1931 - View looking rear toward balcony, partial view of organ case (Photograph from an archival source: Church website, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)
Unknown - Church Exterior (Vintage Postcard, courtesy of T. Bradford Willis, DDS (1900s)/Database Manager)
2011-11-13 - Sanctuary (Photograph by Rob St. Cyr/Database Manager)
Consoles
Gallery
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
- 3 manuals
- 42 stops
- 44 registers
- 5 divisions
- Key action Type: Electrical
- Stop action Type: Electrical
- Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
- Manual compass: 61 notes
- Pedal compass: 30 notes
- Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Has crescendo
- Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has combination toe pistons
- Has coupler thumb pistons
- Has tutti thumb pistons
Transept Gallery
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Keydesk Attached
- 1 manuals
- 6 stops
- 1 divisions
- Key action Type: Electrical
- Stop action Type: Electrical
- Stop layout Type: Drawknobs
- Manual compass: 61 notes
- Pedal compass: 30 notes
- Pedal Type: Flat Straight
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Notes
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1992. -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - (Extent of Woodberry material to be determined.) Austin console added 1941. Extensive repairs c. 1992 by Richard Hurley. -Database Manager
2017-11-28 - "The organ is a three-manual instrument with electric action, installed by Jesse Woodberry & Co. of Boston and opened in a recital by George E. Whiting in 1899. The instrument is located in a free-standing oak case in the second gallery (a very unusual placement in North America), and the somewhat misnamed "Solo" organ is in the gallery of the right transept, 125 feet away. The old gallery console had a roll-top, drawknobs, a flat pedal keyboard, and far fewer couplers than the present 1941 Austin console, located where the former one stood. No tonal changes have been made, and the Solo Organ (playable from the Great of the old console and now not playable from the Great of the new console), still has the original attached console and electric action. The two instruments cost $15,000 and are possibly the oldest tonally unaltered organs with electric action in the New England area." (Boston Organ Club Newsletter, November 1966) -Database Manager
Stoplist
Typed specification Source: from Boston Organ Club Newsletter (November 1966) Date not recorded
Manchester, New Hampshire
Ste. Marie's Roman Catholic Church
Jesse Woodberry & Co. 1899 3 manuals, 42 stops, 46 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN SWELL ORGAN
16' Open Diapason 61 16' Contra Gamba 61
8' Open Diapason 61 8' Open Diapason 61
8' Viol da Gamba 61 8' Salicional 61
8' Viol Dolce 61 8' Aeoline 61
8' Gemshorn 61 8' Voix Celeste (TC) 49
8' Doppel Flute 61 8' Stopped Diapason 61
4' Octave 61 4' Octave 61
2 2/3' Octave Quint 61 4' Harmonic Flute 61
2' Super Octave 61 2' Flautino 61
Mixture III 183 Dolce Cornet III 183
8' Trumpet 61 8' Cornopean 61
8' Oboe 61
CHOIR ORGAN (unenclosed) 8' Vox Humana 61
8' Geigen Principal 61 Tremolo
8' Dulciana 61
8' Melodia 61 PEDAL ORGAN
4' Violina 61 16' Open Diapason 30
4' Flauto Traverso 61 16' Bourdon 30
2' Piccolo 61 10 2/3' Quint 30
8' Clarinet 61 8' Flute * --
Tremolo 8' Violoncello 30
16' Trombone 30
SOLO ORGAN (unenclosed) ** 8' Trumpet * --
8' Open Diapason 61 * 1941 extensions of
8' Keraulophone 61 Open Diapason & Trombone
8' Unda Maris (TC) 49 playing just 17 notes
8' Clarabella 61
4' Flute d'Amour 61 COUPLERS
2' Flageolet 61 Swell to Great 16 8 4
Tremolo Choir to Great 16 8 4
** in right transept with Swell to Choir 16 8 4
attached 1 manual console Great to Pedal 8
Swell to Pedal 8 4
COMBINATIONS Choir to Pedal 8
Generals 8 Solo to Pedal 8
Great & Pedal 8 Great to Great 16 4
Swell & Pedal 8 Swell to Swell 16 4
Choir & Pedal 8 Choir to Choir 16 4
Pedal 6 Great Unison Off
Swell Unison Off
Great to Pedal reversible Choir Unison Off
Sforzando reversible Solo on Great switches
EXPRESSION
Balanced Swell Pedal
Crescendo Pedal
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2017-11-28]
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