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W. H. Crandell (1901)

Thompson Congregational Church: Sanctuary
347 Thompson Road
Thompson, CT

OHS convention: 1994

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
2 manuals
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2011-09-28 - Identified through online information from Susan H. Markham. -- There are 3 drawknobs above the Swell - Gt. to Pedal, Sw. to Pedal and Swell to Great. There are 3 metal, vertical slides above the Pedal board - Gt. to Ped., Gt. to Ped.(off). and one that is almost a full Gt.(reversible). -Database Manager

2022-02-06 - Built for State St. (later Wesley) Methodist, Springfield, MA. Moved here in 1901 by W. H. Crandell of the Geo. Hutchings factory, unaltered. -Paul R. Marchesano

Stoplist

From Northeastern CT Ago site plus my own memory Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Great: Bourdon 16, Open Diapason 8, Viola di Gamba 8, Dulciana 8, Melodia 8, Octave 4, Flute Traverse 4, Twelfth 2 2/3, Fifteenth 2, Mixture III, Trumpet 8, Clarinet 8 (T.C.)

Full Organ Pedal (Brings on full great minus Trumpet). 

Piano Pedal (Removes all but Dulciana 8, Melodia 8, and Flute Traverse 4).

Reversible Swell to Great coupler Pedal, in addition to the hand coupler.


Swell: Stopped Diapason 8, Salicional 8, Open Diapason 8, Quintadena 8, Flute Harmonique 4, Fugara 4, Flautino 2, Oboe 8 (T.C.) Vox Humana 8 [missing by 1994]

Pedal: Open Diapason 16, Bourdon 16, Violoncello 8

Tremulant. 

Swell Pedal is awkwardly placed way to the right rather than in the middle. 



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 [Received from Damian M. Schloming 2015-09-12.]

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