Better Pipe Organ Database

William W. Laws (1927)

First Baptist Church
110 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA

Images

2016-09-18 - Church exterior (Photograph by Adrian Scottow, via Wikipedia, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2023-03-19 - Church interior and organ case (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2023-06-09 - Church interior and organ case (Photograph by Brink Bush, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
3 manuals
47 stops
49 registers
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2009-05-28 - Identified through online information from Jeffrey H. Smith. -- Mechanical changes to existing E. & G. G. Hook & Hastings organ, with no tonal changes. Trackers and original console replaced with electrified action -Database Manager

2009-05-30 - {Manager's Note: -- See Mr. Smith's note on the name change for the building in the linked entry for Brattle Square Society.] -Database Manager

2014-03-13 - Updated through online information from Stefan Weist. -- Condition found in 2006: Tuba 16-8-4 and Echo stoptabs prepared for in console, but pipes not existant. Considerable contamination in pipework due to plaster and dust from ceiling. Bombarde in Pedal silent due to heavy damage. -Database Manager

Stoplist

typed stoplist Source: from Boston Organ Club Newsletter (January 1966) Date not recorded

Boston, Massachusetts
First Baptist Church

William W. Laws   1927                      4 manuals, 47 stops, 56 ranks
Electrification of E. & G.G. Hook & Hastings (1873, Op. 727)
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         GREAT ORGAN                          SWELL ORGAN
     16' Open Diapason       61           16' Bourdon Bass        12
      8' Open Diapason       61           16' Bourdon (TC)        49
      8' Gamba               61            8' Open Diapason       61
      8' Dulciana            61            8' Stopped Diapason    61
      8' Doppel Flute        61            8' Salicional          61
      8' Melodia             61            8' Vox Celeste         61
      4' Octave              61            8' Æoline              61
      4' Night Horn          61            8' Quintadena          61
  2 2/3' Twelfth             61            4' Octave              61
      2' Fifteenth           61            4' Harmonic Flute      61
         Mixture V          305            2' Flautino            61
         Mixture III        183        1 1/7' Seventh             61
     16' Tuba (TC)           -- *             Mixture IV         244
      8' Trumpet             61           16' Posaune (TC)        49
      8' Tuba                -- *          8' Cornopean           61
      4' Clarion             -- *          8' Oboe                61
                                           8' Vox Humana          61
         CHOIR ORGAN                          Tremolo
     16' String Gamba        61
      8' Open Diapason       61               PEDAL ORGAN
      8' Dulciana            61           32' Resultant           --
      8' Unda Maris (TC?)    49           16' Open Diapason       32
      8' Gedeckt             61           16' Bourdon             32
      4' Flauto Traverso     61       10 2/3' Quint               32
      4' Octave              61            8' Major Flute         32
  2 2/3' Twelfth             61            8' Violoncello         32
      2' Piccolo             61            8' Viola               32
      8' Clarinet            61            4' Flute               32
         Tremolo                          16' Bombarde            32
                                          16' Tuba (Gt)           -- *
                                           8' Tuba (Gt)           -- *
                                           4' Clarion (Gt)        -- *

      *  prepared in console


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2017-11-27]

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#14503 - E. & G.G. Hook & Hastings Opus 727 (1873)