Better Pipe Organ Database

W.B.D. Simmons & Co. (1851 ca.)

Brandon Baptist Church: Sanctuary; front
15 Champlain St.
Brandon, VT

Note: Not playable. (in this location)

Images

1912 postmark - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Vintage postcard, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
2 manuals
14 stops
12 registers
3 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: 18 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Trigger/Hitch-Down Expression
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1972. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Originally in rear gallery. Hurricane damage in 1950's Altered. -Database Manager

2010-12-12 - Updated through on-line information from Carol Scott. -- No longer playable. -Database Manager

2013-03-04 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The original Great 8' Trumpet was replaced with an 8' German Gamba. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist copied from 'The Tracker' Date not recorded

Brandon, Vermont
Brandon Baptist Church

Wm. B.D. SIMMONS & Co., ca. 1853 - Original Specifications


    GREAT
8'  Open Diapason                56
8'  Dulciana               (tc)  44
8'  Clarabell Treble [sic] (tc)  44
8'  St. Diapason Bass            12
4'  Principal                    56
4'  Flute                        56
2'  Fifteenth                    56
8'  Trumpet                      56


    SWELL (Expressive)
8'  Viol de Gamba          (tf)  39
8'  St. Diapason           (tf)  39
4'  Principal              (tf)  39
8'  Hautboy                (tf)  39
    Tremulant


    SWELL BASS (Unenclosed)
8'  Sw. Bass Stop. Diap.         17
 

    PEDAL (18 notes)
16' Sub Bass                     13
    Pedal Check


    COUPLERS (Drawknob)
Couple Pedals & Sw. Bass        [8]
Couple Pedals & Great           [8]

Couple Great & Swell            [8]


    FOOT LEVERS
2 Great combination pedals


    PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell Expression       (hitch-down)


    MISC. CONTROLS
Bellows Signal


ACTION: Mechanical Key & Stop 

VOICES: 12          STOPS: 14

RANKS: 12           PIPES: 554


NOTES
The organ was originally installed in the rear gallery, and
survived severe hurricane damage to the building on November
26, 1950.

The case is made of pine and is faux-grained to imitate rose-
wood. The 3-sectional façade contains the first 15 pipes of
the Great 8' Open Diapason arranged 4-7-4. The façade pipes
were originally gilded and later decorated. The case “carvings”
are actually made of cast iron. The keydesk and stopjambs of
black walnut are recessed behind hinged doors. The drawknobs
are arranged in two rows on either side of the keydesk on flat
jambs. The two Great combination trundles act on the 4' Prin-
cipal and 2' Fifteenth.

The Swell is located above the Great with the Swell bass un-
enclosed behind the Great. The Pedal 16' Sub Bass is diaton-
ically divided at the sides.

The Great 8' Trumpet was later replaced by an 8' German Gamba.

Sources: 1972 OHS National Convention Handbook


[Received from James R. Stettner 2013-03-05.]

Websites

Demo recording 2021 - Found in Google search. Apparently playable as of 2021. (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)