Better Pipe Organ Database

Unknown Builder (1916)

First Parish, Unitarian / St. John's Episcopal / St. Gregory the Illuminator
110 Main St.
Haverhill, MA

Images

Unknown - Building exterior ca. 1908. (vintage postcard, courtesy of William Dunklin/Database Manager)

2010-02-06 - Organ case (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

1989-03-22 - Church interior and organ (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1989-03-22 - Organ case (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1989-03-22 - Keydesk (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
10 stops
10 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: None
Has hitchdown couplers

Notes

2009-06-08 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- This organ was originally built for the Masonic Hall in Haverhill. When that organ got a new Estey in 1916, the Ryder was sold to First Parish Unitarian and installed without tonal changes by an unknown person or firm. In 1926, First Unitarian sold the building to St. John's Episcopal and merged with the Universalists. In 1943, St. John's Episcopal closed and the edifice was ultimately sold to St. Gregory the Illuminator (Armenian Apostolic). -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the console March 22, 1989 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Haverhill, Massachusetts
First Parish, Unitarian; then
St. John's Episcopal; then
St. Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Apostolic

Geo. H. Ryder, Opus 113, ca. 1884

GREAT
   8'  Open Diapason               61
   8'  Melodia                     61
   8'  Dulciana                    61
   4'  Octave                      61   Missing stop label.
   4'  Flute Dolce                 61

SWELL (Expressive)
   8'  Stopped Diapason            61
   8'  Keraulophon           (tc)  49
   4'  Violin                      61
   8'  Oboe                        61   Missing stop label.

PEDAL
   16' Sub Bass                    27

COUPLERS (Drawknob)
   Sw. to Ped.                    [8]   Non-original stop label.
   Great to Pedal                 [8]
   Couple Gr. & Sw.               [8]   Non-original stop label.
   Great Octaves                  [4]   Hitch-down

FOOT LEVERS (Unlabeled; l-r)
   Great Octaves           hitch-down
   Swell Tremolo           hitch-down   Two speeds

PEDAL MOVEMENTS
   Swell Expression            (bal.)

ACTION: Mech. key & stop
VOICES: 10
STOPS: 10
RANKS: 10
PIPES: 564

NOTES
The organ is free-standing and encased, and is recessed into an alcove on
the front, left side of the sanctuary.

 [Received on line from James R. Stettner June 08, 2009.]