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Estey Organ Co. Opus 2560 (1926)

St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church
39 Pleasant Street
Brunswick, ME

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
2 manuals
14 stops
12 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2007-09-26 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ is housed in a case with a large 3-sectional, pipe fence facade. Organ replaced in 1992 by Faucher Organ Co. with their Opus 4 - retaining the case, console shell, and some pipes from the Estey. -Database Manager

2011-06-22 - Updated through online information from Robert Faucher. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Original document from James R. Stettner. Source: Stoplist copied from console stop controls March 7, 1989

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Original document from James R. Stettner. Source: Stoplist copied from the console in March 7, 1989 2017-09-04

Brunswick, ME
St. John the Baptist R.C. Church

Estey Organ Co., Opus 2560, 1926 - Original Specifications

GREAT                                        COUPLERS
  8  Open Diapason                 61          Swell to Pedal                [8]
  8  Melodia                       61          Great to Pedal                [8]
  8  Gamba                         61
  8  Dulciana                      61          Swell to Great             16,[8],4
  4  Octave                        61

  Great Unison Off                           FINGER PISTONS (Mechanical)
  Great to Great 4'                            Univ                          1 - 3
                                               Swell                         1 - 3
                                               Great                         1 - 3
SWELL (Expressive)
  16 Bourdon                       61
  8  Open Diapason                 61        FINGER PISTONS (Pneumatic)
  8  Stopped Diapason              61          Univ                          1 - 3
  8  Salicional                    61          Swell                         1 - 3
  4  Flute Harmonic                61          Great                         1 - 3
  8  Oboe                          61
     Tremolo
                                             FOOT LEVERS (Labeled)
  Swell to Swell 16'                           REV     [Gt. to Ped.]         (rev)
  Swell Unison Off                             SF       [Sforzando]          (rev)
  Swell to Swell 4'

                                             PEDAL MOVEMENTS
PEDAL                                          Swell Expression             (bal.)
  16 Bourdon                       30          Crescendo                    (bal.)
  16 Lieblich Gedeckt        (Sw)  –-
  8  Bass Flute                    12


ACTION: E-P ventil      VOICES: 12      STOPS: 14      RANKS: 12      PIPES: 715


NOTES
The organ is free-standing and encased in the rear gallery on the central axis of the
church. The case is of oak. The 3-sectional façade contains 49 pipes arranged: 7-35-7.
The console is detached. See the May 1993 issue of The American Organist, Vol. 27, No. 5,
pg. 88 for a photo.

Sources: Estey opus list; JRS; extant organ