Better Pipe Organ Database

Rufus Johnson (1854)

North Congregational Church
22 Church Hill Road
Groveville (Buxton), ME

OHS convention: 1992

Images

Unknown - View of case from front angle, pipes visible behind shades (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

2019-05-19 - View of case from front angle, pipes visible behind shades (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

2019-05-19 - Closer front view (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

2019-05-19 - Front view of sanctuary and organ case (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

Consoles

Main

1 manuals
5 stops
6 registers
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Manual compass: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 99 notes

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1992. -Database Manager

2022-09-30 - Church records seem to be somewhat confusing as to the price paid for the organ. One source slates that "'the Society paid $30 for the organ' which they purchased from Rufus Johnson of Saccarappa on January 1, 1854. ... the organ was brought into the church by rolling it across planks which were laid · over the pews." Minutes of the Ladies Circle "noted [on 1 March] that thirty dollars be given toward the organ", and on 15 March "Mel at the Owens (March 9 paid John Hill $30.00 for the organ.)" There was once cloth stretched across a frame in the center flat of the Groveville organ; the heavy cornice is a later addition. Both flutes in the instrument are metal chimney flutes. -- *1992 OHS Handbook* -Paul R. Marchesano

Stoplist

typed stoplist Source: from Boston Organ Club Newsletter (April 1967) Date not recorded

Groveville, Maine
Congregational Church

Rufus Johnson   1854
1 manual, 6 registers, 5 stops
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         MANUAL
      8' Open Diapason (TC)        44
      8' Dulciana (MC)             32
      8' Std. Diapason Treble (MC) 32
      8' Std. Diapason Bass        24
      4' Principal                 56
      4' Flute (MC)                32

         Swell Pedal (hitchdown)
Pedal Movements:
2 unlabelled single-acting pedals:
forte, piano

[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2017-11-29]
[ed. 2022-09-30 - 1992 OHS Handbook]