Unitarian / First Parish Unitarian-Universalist: Sanctuary; front (side)
20 Common Road
Ashby, MA
Images
2020-10-27 - Damaged pipework (Photograph by Parish-submitted photos, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2020-10-27 - Damaged pipework (Photograph by Parish-submitted photos, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2020-10-27 - Damaged pipework (Photograph by Parish-submitted photos, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2020-10-27 - Bass end of case with pump handle slot (Photograph by Parish, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2020-10-27 - Pedal Sub Bafs chest and rollerboard (Photograph by Parish-submitted photos, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2020-10-27 - Pedal Sub Bafs pipes (Photograph by Parish-submitted photos, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2020-10-27 - Pedal Sub Bafs speaking into the back of the piano (Photograph by Parish-submitted photos, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2020-10-27 - Back of organ in adjacent choir room (Photograph by Parish-submitted photos, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2020-10-27 - Pedal rollerboard (Photograph by Parish-submitted photos, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2020-10-27 - Keydesk: pedalboard, composition trundles, and expression (Photograph by Parish-submitted photos, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2020-10-27 - Keydesk: left stopjamb (Photograph by Parish-submitted photos, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2020-10-27 - Keydesk: right stopjamb (Photograph by Parish-submitted photos, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2020-12-07 - Keydesk: manual (Photograph by Parish-submitted photos, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2020-10-27 - Keydesk and pedalboard (Photograph by Parish-submitted photos, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2020-10-27 - Organ case and keydesk (Photograph by Parish-submitted photos, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2020-10-27 - Chancel and organ case/facade (Photograph by Parish-submitted photos, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2020-10-27 - Chancel and organ case/facade (Photograph by Parish-submitted photos, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2020-10-27 - Sanctuary interior with organ at front, right (Photograph by Parish-submitted photos, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
before 1927 - Organ as originally installed in a rear gallery (Photograph from an archival source: Published Parish history, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2014-02-23 - Facade and keydesk (Photograph by Aaron Stockwell/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
- Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
- 1 manuals
- 8 stops
- 10 registers
- 2 divisions
- Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
- Stop action Type: Mechanical
- Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
- Manual compass: 58 notes
- Pedal compass: 17 notes
- Pedal Type: Flat Straight
- Expression Type: Trigger/Hitch-Down Expression
- Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
- Has combination trundles
Notes
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1998 -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Extant, used and unaltered except for electric blower. Has been moved around the church twice. Is playable -Database Manager
2008-10-31 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ was originally installed at the rear of the room in a slightly elevated choir gallery. According to the parish history, the choir moved to the front in 1887, and a Hamiltonian Vocalion organ was installed up front. The Whitney remained in the rear gallery. A scant four years later, the choir returned to the rear gallery, the Whitney was repaired, and the Vocalion was sold. In 1927, the Whitney was moved to the front, and recessed into a chamber on the right side of the chancel. The choir again moved with the organ. When a Hammond was given as a memorial gift in 1947, it was installed in the rear gallery where the Whitney had originally been - and the choir moved once again. The Whitney has a 3-sectional facade with 23 dummy pipes arranged: 4-15-4. At some point in time, the originally dark organ case was painted white. The organ is a G-compass organ. The manuals are 58 notes: GGG, AAA-f3. But the Pedal is 17 notes: GGG-BB - including the GGG#. All of the manual stops are partial-compass: even the Twelfth and Fifteenth (47 pipes each). The Pedal 16' Sub Bafs [sic] is 12 pipes. There are two unlabeled foot trundles: essentially a Principal Chorus On, and Principal Chorus Off. Both the 8' St. Diapason and 4' Flute are chimney flutes. Source: extant organ; documented May 11, 1989. -Database Manager
2014-05-22 - Updated through online information from Aaron Stockwell. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Source: Stoplist taken from the console Date not recorded
Ashby, Massachusetts
First Parish Unitarian Universalist
Jonas Prescott Whitney, ca. 1840-1850
LEFT STOPJAMB
[8] Open Diapason
[4] Principal Bafs
[4] Principal Treble
[4] Flute
[3] Twelfth
[2] Fifteenth
RIGHT STOPJAMB
Bellows
[8] Dulciana
[8] St. Diapason Bafs
[8] St. Diapason Treble
[16] Sub Bafs [Pedal]
Pedal Coupler
[Received from Jay Janell 2015-05-17.]
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