Better Pipe Organ Database

W.B.D. Simmons & Co. (1857ca.)

Most Holy Redeemer Roman Catholic Church
72 Maverick Street
Boston: East Boston, MA

OHS convention: 1961, 2000

Images

2023-08-26 - Church exterior front (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

2023-08-26 - Church exterior (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

2023-08-26 - Church interior (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

2023-08-26 - Organ in rear gallery (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

Unknown - Nave, Balcony, and Organ Case (Photograph (ca. 1974) by Thomas Murray/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
2 manuals
27 stops
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: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: None

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1995. -Database Manager

2008-05-18 - Updated through online information from David M Storey. -- Originally with 2 sets of swell shades, interior set gone, 1 reed rank from swell gone, maybe a 4' Clarion? All pipes appear to be in place and in relatively good condition, very few are broken, extrememly dirty, church interior has been spray painted with much overspray in/on the great pipes. Most trackers replaced with AL wire most of which is now bent and broken,several manual keys fallen, many stop faces missing. Church does not use/maintain the organ but has been advised to never part with it, case is used for storage of electric keyboards Otherwise all parts, pipes and mechanisms appear to be extant. Bellows and windline leather is rotten. Not known if the blower works.Both manual slider chests are poked full of bleed holes. Pedal chests use ventils for stop action. Organ examined May 17, 2008. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from <i>The Organ Handbook</i> 2000 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       East Boston, Massachusetts
       Most Holy Redeemer R. C. Church

       Wm. B.D. Simmons   1857   2/29
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       GREAT                          SWELL                            PEDAL
   16' Bourdon        56          16' Bourdon Bass      12         16' Great Bass    30 (c)        
    8' Open Diapason  56          16' Bourdon Treble    44 tc      16' Dulciana Bass 30 (c)
    8' Viol da Gamba  44 tc        8' Open Diapason     44 tc      16' Trombone      30
    8' Clarabella     44 tc        8' Viol D'Amour      44 tc
    8' Dulciana       56           8' Std. Diap. Bass   12
    8' Std. Dia. Bass 12           8' Std. Diap. Treble 44 tc
    4' Octave         56           4' Octave            56
    4' Flute          56           4' Flute             44 tc (a)
2 2/3' Twelfth        56       2 2/3' Twelfth           56
    2' Fifteenth      56           2' Flageolet         56 (b)
  III  Sesquialtera  168           8' Trumpet           56
   II  Mixture       112           8' Oboe              56
    8' Trumpet        56           4' Clarion           56

   (a) originally a reed stop; probably a tc Double Trumpet 16'
   (b) Bell Gamba
   (c) open wood

      [Received online from Jeff Scofield August 24, 2013]