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Dobson Pipe Organ Builders Opus 98 (2021)

St. Christopher's Episcopal Church: Sanctuary
625 Main St.
Chatham, MA

Images

2021 - Organ case and console (Photograph by Dobson Organ Builders, via Jonathan Ortloff Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2021-04-11 - Computer-generated graphic of planned installation (Photograph from an archival source: Dobson Organ Co. (on Church Facebook page), submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
2 manuals
31 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Computerized/Digital
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2021-05-04 - This is a new instrument (replacing a transplanted, ca. 1853 Geo. Steven & Co.) identified from the Dobson opus list. -Jim Stettner

2021-12-07 - Updated through online information from John Panning. -- The organ was dedicated on Sunday, November 22, 2021. -Jim Stettner

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist copied from the builders website 2021

Chatham, Massachusetts
St. Christopher's Episcopal Church

Dobson Pipe Organ Builders (Opus 98, 2021)


GREAT - I
16'    Bourdon
8'     Open Diapason
8'     Gamba
8'     Harmonic Flute (1-12 from Ch. Fl.)
8'     Chimney Flute
4'     Octave
4'     Spire Flute
2-2/3' Twelfth
2'     Fifteenth
IV     Mixture 1-1/3'
8'     Clarinet

SWELL - II (Expressive)
8'     Bourdon
8'     Viole
8'     Voix Celeste (FF)
4'     Principal
4'     Flute Octaviante
2-2/3' Nasard
2'     Octavin
1-3/5' Tierce
III    Mixture 2'
16'    Basson
8'     Trumpet
8'     Oboe
       Tremulant
		
PEDAL
16'    Open Diapason
16'    Subbass
16'    Bourdon (Great)
8'     Octave
8'     Bass Flute (ext. Subbass)
4'     Fifteenth
16'    Trombone
8'     Trumpet
		
COUPLERS
Swell to Pedal
Great to Pedal

Swell to Great
    		
MISC. CONTROLS
Zimbelstern

Mechanical key action, electric stop action