Unknown - Chancel and Facade (Photograph by Jim Lewis/Database Manager)
2004-10-30 - The organ facade, made of curly birch was designed to be in keeping with the Romanesque Renaissance architecture of the church. Special features of the instrument included electro-pneunataic stop and key actions (not commonly found until somewhat later), and newly developed automatic combination action. A Hook & Hastings is listed for Op. 2111, 1906 (3-51). Was this a rebuild of the Farrand & Votey? -Database Manager
2008-06-10 - Updated through information adapted from <i>E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List</i>, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: <br><i>Thirteen ranks and case retained in Aeolian-Skinner Opus 1202 (1949).</i> -Database Manager
2013-08-10 - Updated through online information from Steven E. Lawson. -Database Manager
From Christian Science Journal, Vol. XII, No. 10 (January 1895) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Boston, Massachusetts
The First Church of Christ, Scientist - Original Edifice
Farrand & Votey Organ Co. Opus 748 1895 3 manuals, 33 stops, 35 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN SWELL ORGAN (enclosed)
16' Double Open Diapason 61 16' Bourdon 61
(stopped bass) 8' Open Diapason 61
8' Open Diapason 61 8' Salicional 61
8' Dulciana 61 8' Æoline 61
8' Viola di Gamba 61 8' Stopped Diapason 61
8' Doppel Flute 61 4' Gemshorn 61
4' Hohl Flute 61 4' Flute Harmonique 61
4' Octave 61 2' Flageolet 61
2-2/3' Octave Quint 61 Cornet, 3 ranks 183
2' Super-octave 61 8' Cornopean 61
8' Trumpet 61 8' Oboe 61
8' Vox Humana 61
CHOIR ORGAN (enclosed)
8' Geigen Principal 61 PEDAL ORGAN
8' Dolce 61 16' Open Diapason 30
8' Concert Flute 61 16' Bourdon 30
8' Quintadena 61 16' Lieblich Gedeckt (SW) --
4' Fugara 61 8' Violoncello (wood) 30
4' Flute d'Amour 61
2' Piccolo Harmonique 61 MECHANICAL ACCESSORIES
8' Clarinet 61 Swell Tremulant
Choir Tremulant
COUPLERS Bellows Signal
Swell to Great Wind Indicator
Choir to Great Æolian Attachment
Swell to Choir
Swell to Great octaves PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell to Great sub-octaves 3 affecting Great and Pedal stops
Choir to Great sub-octaves 3 affecting Swell and Pedal stops
Swell octaves Great to Pedal Reversing Pedal
Swell to Pedal Crescendo and Full Organ Pedal
Great to Pedal Balanced Great and Choir Pedal
Choir to Pedal Balanced Swell Pedal
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2013-08-12]
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