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Estey Organ Co. Opus 674 (1909)

Images

2014-10-23 - Facade and Chancel (Photograph by Dennis Farley/Database Manager)

2014-10-23 - Facade and Keydesk (Photograph by Dennis Farley/Database Manager)

2014-10-23 - Keydesk (Photograph by Dennis Farley/Database Manager)

2014-10-23 - Keydesk Detail - Stop Keys (Photograph by Dennis Farley/Database Manager)

2014-10-23 - Keydesk Detail - Pedal Board (Photograph by Dennis Farley/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
• 8 stops
• 8 registers
• 3 divisions
• Key action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
• Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
• Stop layout Type: Haskell Style Stop-Keys/Keyboard
• Manual compass: 61 notes
• Pedal compass: 30 notes
• Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
• Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
• Combination action: None

Notes

2007-07-05 - Identified by James R. Stettner through information from the Estey Opus List, published in The Boston Organ Club newsletter, 1973-1979. -Database Manager

2015-01-11 - Updated through online information from Stephen Hall. -- The Methodist congregation merged with another church, the building, including the organ, was sold to the Seventh Day Adventists. -Database Manager

2015-01-11 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ has been at least partially re-leathered: the Great primary was done. And the reservoir and feeders have been restored. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from OHS Database photos of the organ Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts
William Butler Memorial M.E. Church

ESTEY ORGAN CO., Opus 674, 1909 - Original Specifications


GREAT                                        COUPLERS
   8'  Open Diapason                61          Swell to Pedal                  [8]
   8'  Dulciana                     61          Great to Pedal                  [8]
   4'  Octave                       61
                                                Swell to Great                  [8]
                                                Swell to Great 8ves             [4] 
SWELL (Expressive)
   8'  Stopped Diapason             61
   8'  Aeoline                      61       PEDAL MOVEMENTS
   4'  Flute Harmonic               61          Swell Expression             (bal.)
   8'  Oboe      [labial]     (tc)  49
       Tremolo


PEDAL
   16' Bourdon                      30


ACTION: T-P         VOICES: 8         STOPS: 8         RANKS: 8         PIPES: 445


NOTES
The organ is free-standing and housed in a quarter-sawn oak case at the front of the room.
The facade contains 33 gold-painted pipes arranged: 5 – 23 – 5. The keydesk is attached and
projecting. The manuals are covered by a lid which unfolds to form a music rack. Stop are
Estey's patented Haskell miniature keyboard above the Swell manual – where the face of the
white keys are engraved to indicate the speaking stop or mechanical function. Pressing the
white key locks it down and actuates the stop. Pressing the adjacent black key cancels it.

Sources: Estey opus list; extant photos of the organ on the OHS Database.

 [Received from James R. Stettner 2015-01-11.]

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