Better Pipe Organ Database

Roche Organ Co. (1979)

Grace and St. Peter's Episcopal Church
2927 Dixwell Avenue
Hamden, CT

OHS convention: 1994

1979 - Case in rear gallery (Photograph from an archival source: 1980 OHS Handbook, builder ad, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
15 stops
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: None

2004-10-30 - The original builder was William B. D.Simmons (1870). -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1994. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Relocated through OCH from United Methodist, Cochessett [not Cohassett], MA. Rebuilt by Roche in 1979, 2-16. -Database Manager

2006-09-20 - Updated through on-line information from Nathan Smith. -Database Manager

Source: 1980 OHS Handbook, builder ad and 1994 OHS Handbook 1979

GREAT (58 notes) Open Diapason* 8 (58 m), Stopped Diapason* 8 (58 w), Octave* 4 (58 m), Flute* 4 (58 w&m), Fifteenth* 2 (58 m), Mixture* II (116 m)

SWELL (58 notes) Spireflute 8 (58 m), Celeste T.C.* 8 (46 m), Waldflute* 4 (58 w&m), Principal 2 (58 m), Trumpet 8 (58 m), Tremulant*

PEDAL (27 notes) Sub Bass* 16 (27 w), Principal Bass 8 (27 m), Choral Bass 4 (27 m), Contra Basson [sic] 16 (27 m)

COUPLERS Swell to Great, Swell to Pedal, Great to Pedal