Better Pipe Organ Database

J. H. Willcox & Co. Opus 32 (1872)

World's Peace Jubilee Coliseum
Back Bay
Boston, MA

Images

1872 - Back side of stereopticon image card with description of the organ (Photograph from an archival source: Stereopticon image card - back, submitted by Jarlath Macnamara/Jarlath Macnamara)

1872 - Organ (Photograph from an archival source: Stereopticon image card - front, submitted by Jarlath Macnamara/Jarlath Macnamara)

Unknown - Coliseum Interior and Pipe Display (Photograph (1872) from the collection of Jim Lewis/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

2 manuals
29 stops

Notes

2009-08-29 - Identified through research conducted by Sand Lawn, courtesy of David Scribner. Placed in temporary Coliseum; no information. May have borne the nameplate of the successor to J.H. Willcox, Hutchings, Plaisted & Co. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Specification from <i>The Organ in New England</i> by Barbara Owen (Raleigh: The Sunbury Press, 1979) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Boston, Massachusetts
World's Peace Jubilee Coliseum

J. H. Willcox & Co.   Opus 32   1872
2 manuals, 29 stops, 35 ranks
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Source: Boston "Herald" (May 23, 1872)
Manual and Pedal compasses not given.

         GREAT ORGAN                 SWELL ORGAN
     16' Bourdon                  8' Violin Diapason
      8' Open Diapason            8' Stop Diapason
      8' Doppel Flute             8' Flute Harmonique
      8' Gamba                    4' Octave
      8' Dolce                    4' Flute Octaviant
  5 1/3' Quint                    8' Cornopean
      4' Flauto Traverso          8' Oboe
      4' Octave
      4' Flute Harmonique            PEDAL ORGAN
  2 2/3' Twelfth                 32' Magalophonia
      2' Fifteenth               16' Double Diapason
         Mixture VII             16' Sub-bass
     16' Bombard             10 2/3' Megalopente
      8' Trumpet                  8' Octave
      4' Clarion                 16' Posaune
                                  8' Tromba

         COUPLERS                    MECHANICALS
         Great to Pedal              Great to Pedal Rev.
         Swell to Pedal              Combination Pedals
         Swell to Great              Swell Pedal
         Swell to Great Octave


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2014-12-31]