Better Pipe Organ Database

Lathrop C. Tilton (1875)

Leeds Community Church (Presbyterian) [orig. Universalist Church]
123 Church Hill Road
Leeds, ME

OHS convention: 1963, 1992

Images

1988-10-17 - Organ case in rear gallery (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1988-10-17 - Keydesk from right side (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1988-10-17 - Pedalboard (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

2010-01-23 - Organ in rear choir gallery (Photograph by Pete Haskell/Database Manager)

2010-01-23 - Keydesk; left perspective (Photograph by Pete Haskell/Database Manager)

2010-01-23 - Builder's stencil above manual (Photograph by Pete Haskell/Database Manager)

2010-01-23 - Left stopjamb (Photograph by Pete Haskell/Database Manager)

2010-01-23 - Right stopjamb (Photograph by Pete Haskell/Database Manager)

2010-01-23 - Pedalboard (Photograph by Pete Haskell/Database Manager)

2010-01-23 - Pump handle and blower windline (Photograph by Pete Haskell/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
1 manuals
8 stops
6 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: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 13 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Trigger/Hitch-Down Expression
Combination action: None

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1992 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Originally Universalist. Building mostly idle from c. 1900 to 1952, when acquired by Presbyterian mission. -Database Manager

2007-09-27 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- Originally built for the Universalist Church [in E. Livermore?] at a cost of $50.00. Housed in a handsome, free-standing Gothic case in a slightly elevated choir loft at the rear of the room. Case of chestnut with walnut trim. Four-sectional facade of 14 gold-painted pipes arranged: 4-5-5-4. The organ was refurbished for Easter in 1963 by the Andover Organ Co. (Bob Reich & Ed Boadway) as their R-19. The original Pedal Subbass drawknob had to be reworked in 1963. That drawknob is now inoperable, and the "Pedals" drawknob (originally the Pedal Check) now operates the Pedal stop action. -Database Manager

2010-01-25 - Updated through on-line information from Peter D. Haskell. -- The organ is in excellent playing condition, and is in regular use for church services. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Community Church (Presbyterian), Leeds, ME
1875 L. C. Tilton
(Stoplist: OH 1963:23; OH 1992:53)

Manual (enclosed, 56 notes)
8' Open Diapason [TC] (44 pipes, m)
8' Dulciana Treble [TF] (39 pipes, m)
8' Dulciana Bass (17 pipes, m)
8' Melodia [TF] (39 pipes, w)
8' Stop Diapason Bass (17 pipes, w)
4' Principal (56 pipes, m)
4' Flute [TC] (44 pipes, w)

Pedal (13 notes)
16' Sub Bass (13 pipes, w) (2 highest pipes are in the Swell box. Drawing this stop makes 
the Sub Bass 16' available on the lowest 13 notes of the manual.)

Coupler (Manual to Pedal)

Pedals (a Pedal Check which brings on 16' rank permanently playable from pedal clavier)

Hitch-down Swell pedal

Church paid $50 for the organ in 1875. It was then a Universalist church. Restored in 
Apr. 1963 by Andover Organ Co. 8' and 4' Principals revoiced and made louder.  
Swell shutters cannot open much before striking the false case pipes.

[Received from Jim Stettner]