Better Pipe Organ Database

Estey Organ Co. Opus 548 (1908)

The New Church (Swedenborgian)
4 Oxford Street
Fryeburg, ME

Images

1989-11-01 - Chancel (Photograph by James Stetner/Database Manager)

1989-11-01 - Facade (Photograph by James Stetner/Database Manager)

1989-11-01 - Keydesk (Photograph by James Stetner/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
9 stops
9 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: None

Notes

2007-07-03 - Identified by James R. Stettner through information from the Estey Opus List, published in The Boston Organ Club newsletter, 1973-1979. -Database Manager

2007-09-13 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ is installed in an alcove on the front wall of the church in the left corner. The organ is free-standing and encased in a quarter-sawn, oak case. The keydesk is attached and projecting. The facade is three-sectional containing 23 pipes arranged: 5-13-5. This includes the first 10 pipes of the Great 8' Open Diapason. Stops are controlled by the Haskell "miniature keyboard" placed over the Swell keys. -Database Manager

2007-09-26 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Original document from James R. Stettner. Source: Stoplist copied from console stop controls March, 1989

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Original document from James R. Stettner. Source: Stoplist copied from the console in March, 1989 2017-09-04

Fryeburg, ME
The New Church (Swedenborgian)

Estey Organ Co., Opus 548, 1908 - Original Specifications


GREAT                                        COUPLERS
  8  Grt. Open Diapason  (façade)  61          Swell to Pedal                  [8]
  8  Grt. Melodia                  61          Great to Pedal                  [8]
  8  Grt. Dulciana                 61          
  4  Grt. Violina                  61          Swell to Great                  [8]
                                               Swell to Great 8ves             [4]

SWELL (Expressive)
  8  Sw. Stopped Diapason          61
  8  Sw. Salicional          (tc)  49        PEDAL MOVEMENTS
  4  Sw. Flute Harmonic            61          Swell Expression             (bal.)
  8  Sw. Oboe     [labial]   (tc)  49
     Sw. Tremolo


PEDAL
  16 Ped. Bourdon                  30


ACTION: T-P Ventil        VOICES: 9        STOPS: 9        RANKS: 9       PIPES: 494


NOTES
The organ is free-standing and encased at the front of the sanctuary on the left side.
The keydesk is attached and projecting. The case is of quarter-sawn oak with the
diatonically divided Pedal 16' Bourdon forming the sides of the case. The façade is
three-sectional containing 25 gold-painted pipes arranged: 5-15-5. The outer towers of
five pipes each contain the first 10 pipes of the Great 8' Open Diapason. Stop are
controlled by a Haskell miniature keyboard above the Swell manual/ Pressing the engraved
white key turns the stops on. Pressing the adjacent black key cancels it.

Sources: Estey opus list, JRS; extant organ.

Church of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian)
4 Oxford St.
Fryeburg,  ME.  04037
(207) 935-3413                               Documented: March, 1989

Websites

Opus 548 - Church of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian), Fryeburg, ME - Stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)