1983-10-14 - Organ facade (Photograph by Tim Drewes/Database Manager)
OHS convention: 1987
2004-10-30 - Builder's Nameplate: Unknown English -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1987. -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Thomas Brattle organ (by 1708). To Kings Chapel, Boston 1728. To St. Paul Episcopal, Newburyport, MA in 1756. Moved to St. John's Chapel on State Street in 1836 & rebuilt by R. P.Morss (or Calvin Edwards?). Moved to old St. John's (here) in 1920's. Rebuilt by Douglas Brown, of C. B. Fisk in 1965, 1-5. -Database Manager
2011-02-16 - Updated through online information from Joseph Phillips. -- This organ, reported to be the oldest playable organ in the US was recently featured in a UNH Faculty concert held on February 6, 2011. It was also used during mass for the first few weeks of this year while our Letourneau Organ was out of commission. The sound from this "portable" instrument is still lovely and strong even though it has been some years since its last restoration. -Database Manager
Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
St. Johns's Episcopal Church, Portsmouth, NH c. 1665, Unknown English (Stoplist: SchnuteDB 1997; T 10:2:3) "Its exact age and builder are still matters of conjecture. We do know that it was in Boston by 1708 (probably earlier), at which time it was the property of Thomas Brattle. At his death in 1713 it became the property of Queen's Chapel (now King's Chapel), and remained there util 1756. Restored ca 1965 by C. B. Fisk. 8' Stopt Diapason 4' Principal 2' Fifteenth Bass 2' Fifteenth Treble II Sesquialtera Bass II Sesquialtera Treble /ds/
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