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David E. Wallace (1985)

First Parish Church, UCC: Sanctuary; rear gallery
9 Cleaveland Street
Brunswick, ME

OHS convention: 1992

Images

2012-09-02 - Sanctuary interior (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)

2012-09-02 - Sanctuary interior to rear (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)

2012-09-02 - Church exterior (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Detached Keydesk (Mechanical Action)
2 manuals
21 stops
23 registers
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: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2004-10-30 - The original builder was Hutchings, Plaisted (1882, Opus112). -Database Manager

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

2004-10-30 - In rear gallery, recessed into tower. Electrified by Ray Douglas in 1969. Restored with alterations, retrackerized, with detached keydesk. Church designed by Upjohn in 1846. Only addition to specification is Great to Great 4' coupler. Case pipes redecorated. Ded. 8 Dec 1985. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Stoplist: OH 1982:8 1982

Brunswick, Maine
First Parish Congregational, 

1882 Hutchings-Plaisted, Op. 112


GREAT (61 notes)                             COUPLERS (Drawknob)
8'     Open Diapason             61          Swell to Pedal
8'     Dolcissimo                61          Great to Pedal
8'     Hohlflote                 61
4'     Octave                    61          Swell to Great
4'     Flute d'Amour             61
2 2/3' Quint                     61
2'     Super Octave              61          FOOT TRUNDLES
III    Mixture                  183          Great Piano -
8'     Trumpet                   61
                                             Gr. to Ped. - Reversible
Great 4'
                                             Great Forte -

SWELL (Expressive - 61 notes)
16'    Bourdon Treble      (tc)  49          PEDAL MOVEMENTS
16'    Bourdon Bass              12          Swell Expression        (bal.)
8'     Violin Diapason           61
8'     Salicional                61
8'     Gedeckt                   61          MISC. CONTROLS
4'     Violina                   61          Bellows Signal
4'     Flute Harmonique          61
2'     Flautina                  61
8'     Cornopean                 61          MIXTURE COMPOSITION
8'     Oboe                (tc)  49          15-19-22;  8-12-15;  8-4-12
8'     Bassoon                   12
       Tremolo (hitch-down pedal)
                                             ACTION: Mech. Key & Stop
PEDAL (30 notes)
16'    Double Open Diapason      30          VOICES: 21      STOPS: 23
16'    Bourdon                   30
8'     Violoncello               30          RANKS: 23       PIPES: 1,310

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