Better Pipe Organ Database

Hale & Alexander (1959)

First Congregational
27 Church St.
Saint Albans, VT

OHS convention: 2013

Images

Unknown - Chancel and organ in gallery (Photograph by Len Levasseur, 2012, for the 2013 OHS Convention/Database Manager)

1988-10-24 - Church exterior (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1988-10-24 - Organ façade (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1988-10-24 - Keydesk (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
27 stops
22 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: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2007-10-19 - Substantial tonal revision and expansion of existing 1893 Hook & Hastings, Opus 1567. Identified through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- Great somewhat altered. Swell substantially altered. Pedal electrified. 30-note pedalboard replacing original 27-note pedalboard. Existing Pedal 16' Subbass unified to 8' & 4'. Added Pedal 8' Principal unified to 4' & 2'. Manual-to-Pedal couplers stil mechancial and for the original 27 notes. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from the 2013 OHS Convention handbook Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Saint Albans, Vermont
Congregational Church

Hale & Alexander, 1959
Alterations to existing Hook & Hastings Opus 1567 (1894) 

Manuals: Tracker Action
Pedal:   Electric Action

STOPLIST

GREAT                            SWELL

    8 Open Diapason                 16 Quintadena (t.c., 46 pipes)
    8 Dulciana                      16 Quintadena Bass (12 pipes)
    8 Gedeckt                        8 Viola da Gamba
    4 Octave                         8 Voix Celeses
    4 Nachthorn                      8 Stop'd Diapason
    3 Twelfth                        4 Principal
    2 Fifteenth                      4 Rohr Flute
      Mixture III (174 pipes)        2 Hohl Flute
    8 Trumpet                    1 1/3 Quint
                                       Mixture III
PEDAL                                8 Oboe
   16 Open Diapason                    Tremolo
   16 Subbass                      
    8 Principal                  COUPLERS
    8 Gedeckt (12 pipes)             Swell to Great
    4 Octave (12 pipes)              Great to Pedal (27 notes)
    4 Gedeckt (12 pipes)             Swell to Pedal (27 notes)
    2 Octave (12 pipes)

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#5372 - Hook & Hastings Opus 1567 (1893)