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Woodberry & Harris Opus 81 (1890ca.)

St. James Episcopal
119 Washington St.
South Groveland, MA

Images

2021-12-24 - Builder's nameplate and sliding wind indicator (underneath script) (Photograph by Jeffrey H Smith/Jeffrey h Smith)

2021-12-24 - Right stop jamb (Photograph by Jeffrey H Smith/Jeffrey h Smith)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
15 stops
14 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: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: None

Notes

2008-09-08 - Identified through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- This was the rebuild and enlargement of the existing I-manual, ca. 1870 Joel Butler organ. The Tremolo is on hitch-down. Source: extant organ documented July 22, 1989. -Database Manager

2014-06-09 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the keydesk July 22, 1989 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

South Groveland, Massachusetts
St. James Episcopal Church

JOEL BUTLER, ca. 1870 - I-manual organ
Woodberry & Harris, Opus 81, ca. 1890 - Enlargement to II-Manuals


GREAT                                        COUPLERS (Drawknob)
   8     Open Diapason              61          Swell to Pedal
   8     Melodia                    61          Great to Pedal
   8     Dulciana                   61
   4     Octave                     61          Swell to Great
   2-2/3 Twelfth                    61
   2     Fifteenth                  61
                                             FOOT LEVERS (Unlabeled)
                                                Swell Tremolo          (hitch-down) 
SWELL (Expressive)
   16    Bourdon              (tc)  49
   8     Salicional           (tc)  49       PEDAL MOVEMENTS
   8     St'd Dia. Treble     (tc)  49          Swell Expression             (bal.)
   8     St'd Dia. Bass             12
   4     Harmonic Flute             61
   4     Violina                    61
   8     Oboe                 (tc)  49
                                             ACTION: Mechanical Key & Stop

PEDAL                                        VOICES: 14         STOPS: 15
   16    Bourdon                    27
   8     Flute                      27       RANKS: 14          PIPES: 750


NOTES
The original organ was a I-manual instrument by Joel Butler of Boston. Woodberry &
Harris enlarged the Butler to II-manuals in 1890.  The organ is installed in a chamber
on the front left side of the Nave with a visible facade of 13 pipes facing the Nave,
and a wooden grille facing into the sanctuary. The keydesk is beneath the pipe facade
and is attached and projecting with a lid that can be lifted to form a music rack.
Stops are as drawknobs on either side of the manuals.

Sources: Parish history; W & H opus list, notes in the files at the Andover Organ
         Co., JRS; extant organ

 [Received from James R. Stettner 2014-06-05.]

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