Better Pipe Organ Database

Andover Organ Co. (1986)

Unitarian-Universalist / South Church Unitarian / Second Congregational
11 Orange St.
Nantucket, MA

Images

2006-11-04 - Organ (Photograph by James R. Stettner/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
14 stops
14 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1995 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Restored by Andover. Historic Organs Recital 8 July 1986 & 7 Jul 1990. (Originally Second Congregational. ) Rebuilt by Pierce in 1893. Restored by Andover in 1966-67. Swell Cornet added by Andover in 1986. -Database Manager

2007-05-13 - Updated through on-line information from Marcia Hempel. -- William Goodrich, 1831. Reworked by E. and G. G. Hook, Boston, Massachusetts, 1845. Rebuilt by George Pierce, 1893. Restored by Andover Organ Company, Methuen, Massachusetts, Opus 93, 1966. Added to by Andover Organ Company, Methuen, Massachusetts, Opus 93, 1986. -Database Manager

2007-10-21 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- This was the addition of a III Cornet [12-15-17] to the Swell in place of the original tc 16' Bourdon. The organ was previously mechanically restored by Andover in 1966-67. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the console June, 1988 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Nantucket, Massachusetts
Unitarian-Universalist / South Church Unitarian / Second Congregational. 

Wm. M. Goodrich, 1831
Andover Organ Co., 1986


GREAT
   [8]   Op. Diapason               58
   [8]   Stpd Diapason              58
   [8]   Dulcianna  [sic]           58
   [4]   Octave                     58
   [4]   Flute                      58
   [3]   Twelfth                    58
   [2]   Fifteenth                  58

SWELL (Expressive)
   [8]   Op. Diapason               58
   [8]   Stpd Diapason              58
   [8]   Gamba                      58
   [4]   Fugara                     58
   [III] Cornet                    174   Composition: 12-15-17.
   [8]   Oboe                       58
         Tremulo  [sic]

PEDAL
   [16]  Bourdon                    27

COUPLERS (Drawknob)
   Sw. to Ped.
   Gr. to Ped.
   Sw. to Gr.

FOOT LEVERS (Unlabeled; l - r)
   Gr. Piano  -  8' S.D., 8' Dulc.
   Gr. Forte  -  8, 8, 8, 4, 4, 3, 2. (full)
   Gr. to Ped. Reversible
   Sw. Piano  -  8' S.D.
   Sw. Forte  -  8' O.D., 8' S.D., 4' Fug., III, 8' Oboe.

PEDAL MOVEMENTS
   Swell Expression             (bal.)

ACTION: Mech. key and stop
VOICES: 14
STOPS: 14
RANKS: 16
PIPES: 895

[Received on line from James R. Stettner June 28, 2009.]

Websites

ORGANS OF THE CAPE AND ISLANDS [Cape Cod AGO] - Photograph, stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)

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