Better Pipe Organ Database

William Nutting, Jr. (1860)

The White Church (Baptist): Sanctuary; front
55 Main Street
Grafton, VT

OHS convention: 1972

Images

2021-04-18 - Organ at Easter (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2020-01-13 - Organ (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2017-12-17 - Sanctuary interior with organ at front, left (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Autumn 2018 - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
1 manuals
10 stops
2 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 13 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Trigger/Hitch-Down Expression
Combination action: None

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1972. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Used by United or Federated Church during winter. Moved from rear to front of the room in 1903. -Database Manager

2013-05-23 - Updated through online information from Connor Annable. -Database Manager

2022-10-26 - This instrument is now the largest known unaltered Nutting organ, but it no longer sounds as it did a century ago. The Baptist building is used by the Federated Church during the winter months. Originally at the rear of the room, the organ was moved to its present location in 1903. The chestnut case displays three flats of goldleafed wood dummy pipes; the console is recessed and the hitch-down swell pedal affects all of the manual pipework...The Dulciana Cornet is a Tierce of one rank; the Pedal Check operates the coupler. The Stop'd Diapason Treble is a metal chimney flute from C1; the Flute is a metal chimneyed rank with 12 open trebles; the Tierce has no pipes for the top 7 notes; the Sub Bass is of stopped wood. The 44-note ranks begin at C0 and the 39-note stops commence at F0. -- *1972 OHS Handbook* -Paul R. Marchesano

Stoplist

Source: Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Date not recorded

Grafton, Vermont
The White Church

William Nutting, Jr., 1860 - Original Specifications


        MANUAL (Expressive), C-g'''
[8]     Open Diapason           (tc)  44   Unenclosed
[8]     Dulciana                (TF)  39 
[8]     Stop'd Diapason Treble  (TF)  39
[8]     Stop'd Diapason Bass          17   CC-E
[4]     Principal                     56
[4]     Flute                   (TC)  44
[2 2/3] Twelfth                       56
[2]     Fifteenth                     56  
[1 3/5] Dulciana Cornet               ??

        PEDAL (flat, straight), C-c
[16]    Sub Bass                      13
        Pedal Check

COUPLER (Drawknob)
Pedal Coupler

PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Expression                    Hitch-down

MISC. CONTROLS
Signal

NOTES
This is the largest known unaltered Nutting organ.