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Bradley Rule / B. Rule & Co. (1992)

Images

Unknown - Transverse view of the front of the instrument (Photo from the organ builder's site, courtesy of Robb Scholten (2000)/Database Manager)

2024-07-23 - Church exterior (Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

Consoles

Main

• Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
• Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
• 2 manuals
• 21 stops
• 3 divisions
• Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
• Stop action Type: Mechanical
• Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
• Pedal Type: Flat Straight
• Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
• Combination action: None

Notes

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

2004-10-30 - OCH. Uses chassis of Johnson & Son Op. 704, much 1858 pipework. Uses many old parts. -Database Manager

2008-01-17 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The case - by Clisby - is 3-sectional containing 15 pipes arranged: 3-[1-7-1]-3. The stops are on flat jambs which are angled back towards the music desk - like a slope. -Database Manager

2017-08-22 - Updated by Robb Scholten, the builder. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

 West Parish Church, Andover, Mass.
B. Rule & Co., New Market, Tennessee, 1992
                                        
 Great                                           
        8'  Open Diapason           
        8'  Chimney Flute           
        4'  Octave                            
    2 2/3'  Twelfth                         
        2'  Fifteenth                          
    1 3/5'  Tierce                           
        2'  Mixture IV (double draw) 
        8'  Trumpet                
                                    
 Swell                               
                                     
        8'  Open Diapason            
        8'  Stopped Diapason Treble 
        8'  Stopped Diapason Bass  
        8'  Dulciana                 
        4'  Principal                
        4'  Traverse Flute        
        2'  Principal                
        8'  Oboe                     
            Tremolo                 
                                     
 Pedal                               
                                     
       16'  Bourdon                
        8'  Principal                
        4'  Octave
       16'  Trombone
        8'  Trumpet

 Couplers
          Swell to Great
          Swell Suboctave to Great
          Great to Pedal
          Swell to Pedal

This organ is a basically new  tracker action instrument designed  and built by B. Rule & Co. It incorporates many recycled parts. The keyboards and windchests are from Johnson & Son, Op. 704, 1888, the pipes and case of which disappeared years ago. Much of the Trumpet pipework, maker unknown, is from an 1858 organ which served two churches in Malden before being broken up for parts. The Johnson chassis and the Malden pipes were provided by the Organ Clearing House. New flue pipes, including those in the case, were made by Paul Byron of York, Maine, while the new pedal 16'  Trombone was made in Germany by  Roland Killinger's Suddeutsche Orgelpfeifenfabrik. The case was  built c. 1865 (?) by John Clisbee & Son of Marlboro, Massachusetts. The hand-painted decorative graining on the case, obscured by layers of darkened varnish, was carefully repaired and restored.

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