St. Mary Roman Catholic Church
55 Warren Street
Boston (Charlestown), MA
OHS convention: 2000
Images
2023-12-29 - Rope ladder fire escape (Photograph by John Roper/John Roper)
2023-12-29 - Room (Photograph by John Roper/John Roper)
2023-12-29 - Console nameboard (Photograph by John Roper/John Roper)
2023-12-29 - Left stopjamb (Photograph by John Roper/John Roper)
2023-12-29 - Right stopjamb (Photograph by John Roper/John Roper)
2023-12-29 - Pedalboard (Photograph by John Roper/John Roper)
2023-12-29 - Console (Photograph by John Roper/John Roper)
2023-12-29 - Room (Photograph by John Roper/John Roper)
2010 - Console (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon /Andrew Scanlon)
2010 - Pedal board and swell shoe (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
2010 - Church exterior (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
2010 - OHS Plaque hanging on wall near staircase to organ loft (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
Unknown - Console, Church Interior, and Altar ((2012) Photograph by Lee Eiseman/Database Manager)
Unknown - Pipe Facades and Stained Glass Window ((2012) Photograph by Lee Eiseman/Database Manager)
1999-05-04 - Nave, Balcony, and Pipe Facades (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)
1999-05-04 - Nave, Balcony, and Pipe Facades (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)
2008-05-31 - Organ in rear gallery (Photo by Leonardo Ciampa/Database Manager)
2008-05-31 - Detached, reversed console (Photo by Leonardo Ciampa/Database Manager)
2023-12-29 - Facade (John Roper/John Roper)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Detached, Reversed Keydesk (Mechanical Action)
- 3 manuals
- 37 stops
- 38 registers
- 4 divisions
- Key action Type: Mechanical With Pneumatic Assists
- Stop action Type: Mechanical
- Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
- Manual compass: 61 notes
- Pedal compass: 30 notes
- Pedal Type: Flat Straight
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
- Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
- Has combination trundles
- Has coupler trundles
Notes
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 2000 -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Mechanical action to Swell and Choir, Barker lever to Great and Great Couplers. Some basses tubular pneumatic. -Database Manager
2006-09-14 - Updated through online information from Mark Paige. -Database Manager
2008-02-23 - Updated through online information from Leonardo Ciampa. -- Organ is virtually unchanged. Has never been restored but is in a fairly good state of repair and is played often (four weekend liturgies, funerals, weddings, etc.). -Database Manager
2013-09-09 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager
2015-02-23 - Updated through online information from Lee Eiseman. -- Andover Organ Company is set to commence a major restoration of action and winding after Easter. -Database Manager
2016-03-31 - Updated through online information from Lee Eiseman. <br>Andover Organ Company has restored the action and winding over the last year. -Database Manager
2023-09-13 - May be the oldest unaltered 3 manual organ in the US. In 2018, Andover restored the winding and action. -Julius Coyle
Stoplist
Typed specification Source: from Boston Organ Club Newsletter (September 1966) Date not recorded
Charlestown (Boston), Massachusetts
St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church
Woodberry & Harris 1892 3 manuals, 37 stops, 42 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN SWELL ORGAN
16' Open Diapason 61 16' Bourdon Bass } 12
8' Open Diapason 61 16' Bourdon Treble (TC) } 49
8' Viol d'Gamba 61 8' Open Diapason 61
8' Doppel Flute 61 8' Salicional 61
4' Octave 61 8' Stopped Diapason 61
4' Flute Harmonique 61 8' Quintadena 61
2 2/3' Twelfth 61 4' Octave 61
2' Fifteenth 61 4' Flauto Traverso 61
Mixture III 183 4' Violina 61
Mixture II 122 2' Flautino 61
8' Trumpet 61 Cornet III 183
4' Clarion 61 8' Cornopean 61
8' Oboe 61
CHOIR ORGAN (unenclosed) 8' Vox Humana 61
16' Lieblich Gedakt 61 Tremolo
8' Geigen Principal 61
8' Dulciana 61 PEDAL ORGAN
8' Melodia 61 16' Double Open Diapason 30
4' Flute d'Amour 61 16' Double Dulciana 30
2' Piccolo Harmonique 61 10 2/3' Quinte 30
8' Clarinet 61 8' Violoncello 30
16' Trombone 30
COUPLERS
by knobs:
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal
Choir to Pedal
by piston knobs below Swell keys:
Gr. Org. Sep. (Enables/Disables Great)
Sw. to Pneu. (Swell to Great)
Ch. to Pneu. (Choir to Great)
Sw. to Ch. (Swell to Choir)
by piston knobs under Great keys:
Forte Choir
Piano Swell
Mezzo Swell
Forte Swell
Rev. Gr. to Ped.
Piano Great
Mezzo Great
Forte Great
Full Organ
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2017-11-28]
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