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Aurèle Bonin (1908)

Congregational
4 King St.
Groveland, MA

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
9 stops
9 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: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: None
Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Rebuilt and enlarged by Wilson Barry in 1971. Replaced an 1865 S. S. Hamill Op. 122 which was relocated to First Parish Church, West Newbury, MA -Database Manager

2014-06-09 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Original advertising by Wilson Barry who rebuilt the organ in 1971 gives the original builder as John D. Brennan - not Aurèle Bonin. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from Andover Organ Co. files, and compared with the extant, altered organ Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Groveland, Massachusetts
The Congregational Church

JOHN D. BRENNAN, 1908 - Original Specifications


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


SWELL (Expressive)                           FOOT LEVERS (Unlabeled)
   8  Std. Diapason                 61          Gr. to Ped. - reversible
   8  Salicional                    61
   4  Flute Dolce                   61
   8  Oboe Gamba                    61       PEDAL MOVEMENTS
      Tremolo                                   Swell Expression             (bal.)


PEDAL
   16 Bourdon                       30


ACTION: Mech. Key & Stop     VOICES: 9     STOPS: 9     RANKS: 9     PIPES: 518


NOTES
The organ is free-standing and encased at the front of the room. The façade is a
simple pipe fence of 25 gold-painted pipes. The keydesk is attached and projecting
with a cover that lifts to for a music rack. Stops appear as drawknobs on either
side of the manuals.

Sources: Andover Organ Co. files; JRS; extant, altered organ

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

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