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Andover Organ Co. Opus R-188 (1975)

Village Congregational Church
45 Main St.
West Stockbridge, MA

Note: Not playable. (in this location)

Images

Unknown - Sanctuary Interior, Chancel, and Organ Case ((2014) Photograph by Andrew Hagberg/Database Manager)

Unknown - Pipe Facade ((2014) Photograph by Andrew Hagberg/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
1 manuals
7 stops
6 registers
2 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: 13 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: None

Notes

2008-07-06 - Identified through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- Rebuild of existing organ. Andover added a 2' Fifteenth to the Great on an added jump-slide, renovated the organ, and some of the other pipework was revoiced. Documented: July, 1988. -Database Manager

2015-08-30 - Updated through online information from John Igoe. -- Johnson Organs, 1844-1898: Wm. A Johnson, Johnson Organ Co., Johnson & Son: a documentary issued in honor the two hundredth anniversary of his birth, 1816-2016 / by Scot L. Huntington, Len Levasseur, Barbara Owen, Stephen L. Pinel, and Martin R. Walsh. Cranbury, New Jersey: The Princeton Academy of the Arts, Culture, and Society, 2015. -Database Manager

2023-09-17 - The organ is not playable at this time. The blower died, and the church has elected to address more pressing concerns first. -Julius Coyle

2023-09-17 - Information from an Andover Organ employee commenting on a Youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IoQKDrDAGQ -Julius Coyle

Stoplist

Typed Stoplist by Paul Opel; augmented by James R. Stettner 2019-06-08 Source: Opel source undocumented; JRS stoplist coped from console Jul 1988 Date not recorded

West Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Congregational Church

JOHNSON & SON, Opus 604, 1883
Andover Organ Co., R-188, 1975 - Refurbishing & Addition

(Stoplist: Paul Opel 1998; Augmented by James R. Stettner, 2019-06-08)

MANUAL (Expressive), C-a''' 
   8  Open Diapason           (tc)  46  
   8  Melodia                 (tc)  46
   8  Dulciana                (tc)  46
   8  Unison Bass                   12
   4  Octave                        58  
   2  Fifteenth                     58  (Added by Andover Organ Company
      Tremulant

PEDAL (flat, straight), C-c
   16 Sub Bass                      13

COUPLERS (Drawknob) 
   Man. to Ped.

PEDAL MOVEMENTS
   Expression                   (bal.)

ACTION: Mech. Key & Stop     VOICES: 6     STOPS: 7     RANKS: 6     PIPES: 279 

NOTES
This organ has the distinction of being the smallest church instrument built by
Johnson. The 2' Fifteenth was added by the Andover Organ Co., and the other pipework
was revoiced. (James R. Stettner)

"This is the smallest existing Johnson organ with an independent pedal.  Much of the
 manual pipework is altered and sounds unlike Johnson & Son's tonal ideals."
(Dr. Susan Armstrong-Ouelette)

Sources: Johnson opus list; Andover Organ Co. files; JRS; extant organ (copied July, 1988)

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#6889* - Wm. Johnson & Son Opus 604 (1883)