Unknown - Chancel and Organ Case (Photograph by Pete Haskell (2001)/Database Manager)
OHS convention: 1963, 1992
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1992 -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Altered. Restorative repairs, Dana Hull, 1983. -Database Manager
2022-09-30 - On the Swell thumper bar, ordinarily inaccessible except when the organ is disassembled, is the date "Oct. 1861." Another Inscription stales that "This organ was set up April 7th 1887 by C. P. Graves of Portland" and "Tuned Aug 1898/By C. P. Graves." Still another reports that the organ was "Moved from rear of Church/May 1906/Set up behind pulpit Nov 1906/by H. C. Harrison - Portland, Me." It seems possible that the original organ, perhaps a one-manual instrument, was smaller than the present one, and that it was replaced with the present (1861) organ in 1887. That would account for the need to "set up" the organ In 1887. But where the organ might have been prior to 1887, or what might have become of the organ it would have displaced, research thus far has failed to reveal. The organ was "Tuned, repaired" and an "Orgoblo installed, 25 May - 5 June 1920" for $532 . 26 by Bryant Parsons Sr., for the J. W . Steere Organ Co., Springfield, Mass . (Bryant Parsons Sr. is in his 90's and living In Florida). When Dana Hull renovated the organ in 1983, she had to undo some changes that had been made prior to her work. The original double rise reservoir, discarded in favor of a supply house regulator, was replaced in 1983 with a replica of the original; the 12-15-17 Cornet II-III was added In 1983, using recycled pipes, on an empty slide prepared for such a stop, but with no stop action. The stop utilizes a knob formerly used for a Pedal Check, moved to a more suitable location and connected to a new action. The Principal Bass 4', Installed in 1983, is of open wood pipes with normal mouths, from a 19th century organ formerly In Utica, New York, and replaced a Viol de Gamba Bass 8'. The Hautboy 8' is from an 18 48 Stevens and was installed In 1983; the original had been replaced years before with a Vox Celeste 8'. The Pedals and Keys knob is notched; halfdraw couples the Swell and Pedal, and lull-draw couples the Great and Pedal. The Melodia Treble 8' is actually a Clarabella; the Flute 4' is a metal Chimney Flute. The Sub Bass 16' plays up from CCC until it runs out of pipes, and then repeats. -- *1992 OHS Handbook* -Paul R. Marchesano
Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Congregational, Cumberland Center, ME 1860 George Stevens (Stoplist: OH 1963:14) Great (56 notes) 8' Open Diapason 8' Dulciana 8' Keraulophon [TG] 8' Melodia Treble [TG] 8' Stop'd Diapason Bass (19 pipes) 4' Principal 4' Flute [TC] 2 2/3' Twelfth 2' Fifteenth 8' Trumpet [TF] Swell (Chest is TF, 39 notes) 16' Double Stop'd Diapason 8' Open Diapason 8' Viol de Gamba 8' Stop'd Diapason 8' Stop'd Diapason Bass (17 pipes) Viol de Gamba Bass (17 pipes) 4' Principal 2' Fifteenth 8' Hautboy (now, in 1963, Voix Celeste) Tremolo Pedal (25 notes) 16' Sub Bass (13 pipes) (Treble keys "act back" on lower Pedal pipes) Couple Great & Swell Couple Pedals and Keys (notched: first position is S-P; second is G-P.) Pedal Check (now [1963] operates chimes) Bellows Alarm (now [1963] A. C. switch) Balanced Swell (not original) Two stopped wood Swell bass ranks are unenclosed.
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