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Cole & Woodberry Opus 1 (1887)

Congregational Church
245 N. Main St.
Bradford, VT

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
10 stops
11 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2009-09-27 - Identified through on-line information from Stephen Hall. -- Restored after 1997. (Information from on-line article in WACX.com dated Sept 25, 2009) -Database Manager

2019-04-07 - Updated by James R. Stettner, listing this web site as a source of information: https://www.russellorgans.com/opus/bradford/index.html. <br> <br>The organ was never \'restored.\' It was electrified in 1960 and enlarged to 13 ranks. In 2008, Russell & Co. completed a new 22-rank mechanical action organ incorporating the extant Cole & Woodberry case [enlarged] and surviving Cole & Woodberry pipework. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Original document from James R. Stettner. Source: Stoplist copied from the Russell & Company website. 2019-03-16

Bradford, Vermont
Congregational Church

COLE & WOODBERRY, Opus 1, 1887

GREAT COUPLERS
8 Open Diapason 58 Swell to Pedal
8 Melodia 58 Great to Pedal
8 Dulciana 58
4 Octave 58 Swell to Great
2 Fifteenth 58 Swell to Great 8ves

SWELL (Expressive) FOOT TRUNDLES
8 Viola (tc) 46 Great Piano -
8 St. Diap. Treble (tc) 46
8 St. Diap. Bass 12 Great Forte -
4 Wald Flöte 58
8 Oboe (tc) 46
Tremolo PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell Expression (bal.)

PEDAL
16 Bourdon 27

Bellows Signal

ACTION: Mech. Key & Stop VOICES: 10 STOPS: 11 RANKS: 10 PIPES: 525

NOTES
According to the Russell & Co. website, the organ was free-standing and encased at
the front of the room. The case was of chestnut with walnut accents. The façade pipes
were stenciled.

In 1911, a “Kinetic” electric blower was installed at a cost of “$193.00 less 10%”.
Records indicate that the blower was shipped to D.H. Bailey of Bradford. It was at
this time that the hand-pumping mechanism was disabled.

The organ was later electrified in 1960 and enlarged to 13 ranks. In 2005 it was re-
placed with a new mechanical-action instrument incorporating the Cole & Woodberry
case expanded, and surviving Cole & Woodberry pipework.

Sources: Russell & Co. website.

Congregational Church
Bradford, Vermont

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