Better Pipe Organ Database

Geo. Stevens (& Co.) (1870 ca.)

Still River Baptist [now Harvard Historical Society]: Hall
215 Still River Road
Harvard, MA

OHS convention: 1961

Images

2010-07-10 - Organ Case (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
Console position: Keydesk Attached
1 manuals
11 stops
12 registers
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: 25 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Trigger/Hitch-Down Expression
Combination action: None

Notes

2004-10-30 - Building formerly Still River Baptist, then Harvard Historical Society. 9/93 form - stop list & pictures. -Database Manager

2009-12-31 - Updated through on-line information from Claire Rindenello. -Database Manager

2012-05-08 - Updated through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -- The Harvard Historical Society reports the following about the organ's condition as of May 07, 2012: "The casework is of pine, with faux oak grained finish, in moderately good condition. The keydesk is semi-projecting, with vertical stop-jambs. All manual pipe work is enclosed in and expression box with vertical shutters operated by a hitch-down pedal, and the front pipes are wooden dummies. The Pedal pipes are arranged diatonically at the back of the organ. The organ is presently blown by an old Spencer fan blower in the cellar, but the original feeders and bellows handle are still intact. The wind-pressure appears to have been raised at some time by the addition of large and uncharacteristic rocks on the bellows, and some of the pipes seem on the verge of over blowing. The pipe work is all intact, but in somewhat damaged condition, the tops of the open metal pipes having been coned out and torn, apparently to sharpen the pitch. These few interventions can all be reversed during a restoration, as this organ is otherwise entirely intact and original." A fundraising campaign for restoration is underway. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist (Source: Harvard Historical Society website) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Still River Baptist/Harvard Historical Society
Harvard, Massachussetts
George Stevens & Co., c. 1870
OHS ID 4154

      MANUAL (56 notes) 
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    8 Open Diapason            wood bass
    8 Stopped Diapason Bass    19 pipes
    8 Melodia                  from tenor C
    8 Keraulophon              from tenor G
    8 Dulciana                 from tenor G
    4 Principal                from tenor G
    4 Flute                    from tenor C
2-2/3 Twelfth
    2 Fifteenth
      Sesquialtera [III]       from tenor F
    8 Hautboy
               
      PEDAL (25 notes) 
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16   Bourdon                   20 wood pipes            
     Manual to Pedal coupler
                
[Received online from T. Daniel Hancock, 2012-05-07]

Websites

Harvard Historical Society, Harvard, Massachussetts - stoplist, contemporary and historic photographs, description and history (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)