Better Pipe Organ Database

Joel Butler (1874)

First Congregational Church
Andover St.
Georgetown, MA

Images

1989-11-01 - Organ gallery (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1989-11-01 - 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
18 stops
16 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: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2004-10-30 - Altered Andover 1967. [Previously had c. 1850 Wm. B. D. Simmons.]Stoplist in OH 1987 is the present (1987) stoplist. -Database Manager

2008-09-07 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Free-standing and encased in a front gallery. 3-sectional facade features 21 handsomely stencilled blue pipes arranged: 6-9-6. The organ received an electric blower in 1919 installed by the Estey Organ Co. It was renovated mechanically in 1967 by Andover with a new Great III Mixture added on two spare slides and some revoicing of existing ranks. Sources: extant, renovated/altered organ; 1987 OHS convention handbook. -Database Manager

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