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Richard Bridge (1756)

King's Chapel
58 Tremont Street
Boston, MA

Consoles

Main


Notes

2012-07-24 - Identified through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -- Case was reused in the replacement organ by Simmons & Willcox in 1860, and parts of it subsequently by Charles Fisk in a new organ in 1964. -Database Manager


Stoplist

Typed stoplist (Source: Osche, Orpha: "The History of the Organ in the United States," 1975.) Corrections, The Tracker, 41:3 (1997) 17. Source: The Tracker, 41:3 (1997) 17 Date not recorded

King's Chapel
Boston, Massachussetts
Richard Bridge, 1756
OHS ID: 50058
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Great GG-e3, lacking GG#, 57 notes  Eccho (probably tenor F or G, 36 or 34 notes) [Swell] 
    8 Open Diapason               8 Open Diapason
    8 Stop Diapason               8 Stop Diapason      
    4 Principal                   4 Principal
2-2/3 Twelfth                     8 Hautboy
    2 Fifteenth                   8 Trumpet
1-3/5 Tierce                     
      Cornet IV* (treble c1)       Choir (GG-e3, lacking GG#, 57 notes)
      Sesquialtera IV*            8 Stop Diapason
    8 Trumpet                     4 Principal
                                  4 Flute
                                    Furniture
                                  8 Vox Humana
 
     *In both mixtures, each of the ranks for these 
      compound stops could be drawn separately, 
      dramatically increasing the number of registration
      possibilities.
 
      A pedal board and Sub Bass of 18 notes was added 
      in 1824 by Goodrich. 
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[Received online from T. Daniel Hancock, 2012-04-25]
[ed.: corrections 2023-04-25]

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