Better Pipe Organ Database

Owner (2010)

Residence: Peter Haskell: Console in one room, pipes in adjoining room
South Freeport, ME

Images

2009-08-09 - Main Chest, Toy Counter, Offset Chest (Photograph by Peter Haskell/Database Manager)

2007-04-01 - Blower (Photograph by Peter Haskell/Database Manager)

2016 - Console (Photograph by Pete Haskell/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Horseshoe
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
2 manuals
44 registers
1 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys in Horseshoe Curves
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Setterboard
Has combination thumb pistons

Notes

2007-05-09 - Identified through on-line information from Peter D. Haskell. -- The organ was built by the Marr & Colton company of Warsaw, New York, and was installed in the Thompson Square Theatre, Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1928. I am now in the process of installing this organ in my home. -Database Manager

2007-05-10 - Updated through on-line information from Peter Haskell. -Database Manager

2011-01-13 - Updated through on-line information from Peter Haskell. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from console Feb. 14, 2012 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

RANK              NUMBER OF PIPES 

Bourdon / Flute 16'      97
Trumpet 8'               61
Salicional 8'            73
Tibia 8'                 73
Vox Humana 8'            61

ALSO:

Xylophone                37 notes
Glockenspiel             30 notes

STOP TABS:
 
Accompaniment

16' Viol TC  
16' Bourdon  
8' Trumpet   
8' Tibia     
8' Salicional
8' Flute     
8' Vox       
4' Salicional
4' Tibia     
4' Flute     
2' Nazard    
Snare Loud   
Snare Soft   
Tambourine   
Castanets    
Chinese Block
4' Trumpet   
             

Solo

16' Viol TC
16' Bourdon
16' Vox TC
8' Trumpet
8' Tibia
8' Salicional
8' Flute
8' Vox
5 2/5 Quint
4' Salicional
4' Flute
4' Tibia
4' Vox
2 2/3 Twelfth
2' Piccolo
16' Trumpet TC
Xylo
Glock

Pedal
   
16' Bourdon
8' Trumpet
8' Flute
8' Cello
Bass Drum
8' Tibia
Cymbal

Also:

Tremulant - Main
Tremulant - Vox

Toe Studs:  Hoof, Sleigh Bells, Chinese Block, Whistle, Bell, Thunder, Bass Drum, Snare Drum, Cymbal, Triangle, Horn, Castanets, Tambourine

 [Received from Peter Haskell 2012-02-15.]

Websites

Home Installation of Marr & Colton - Photographs, description of renovation and installation (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#47504†* - Marr & Colton (1928)