Better Pipe Organ Database

Joseph W. Smith (1939)

First Baptist Church: Sanctuary
111 Park Avenue
Worcester, MA

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Images

2020-10-22 - Church exterior (Photograph by Kenneth C Zirkel, via commons.wikimedia.org, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
4 manuals
52 stops
53 registers
5 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons

Notes

2012-09-07 - Identified through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

2012-09-17 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from <i>The Diapason</i> November 1939 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       Worcester, Massachusetts
       First Baptist Church

       Joseph W. Smith, Boylston MA   1939   4/57
       ___________________________________________________

       GREAT                          SWELL
   16' Double Open Diapason 61    16' Bourdon           73
    8' First Open Diapason  61     8' Open Diapason     73
    8' Second Open Diapason 61     8' Stopped Diapason  73
    8' Hohlflöte            61     8' Salicional        73   
    8' Gamba                61     8' Voix Celeste      61
    8' Gemshorn             61     8' Aeoline           73
    4' Octave               61     4' Principal         73
    4' Harmonic Flute       61     4' Violina           73
2 2/3' Twelfth              61     4' Traverse Flute    73
    2' Fifteenth            61     2' Flautina          61
   IV  Mixture             244   III  Cornet           183
    8' Trumpet              61    16' Fagotto           73
                                   8' Cornopean         73
       SOLO                        8' Oboe              73
    8' Stentorphone         73     8' Vox Humana        73
    8' Clarabella           73
    8' Gross Gamba          73        CHOIR
    4' Waldflöte            73    16' Contra Gamba      73
    8' Tuba Harmonic        73     8' English Diapason  73
    8' French Horn          73     8' Melodia           73
                                   8' Viole d'Orchestre 73
       PEDAL                       8' Dulciana          73
   16' Double Open Diapason 32     8' Unda Maris        61
   16' Bourdon              32     4' Fugara            73
   16' Lieblich Gedeckt     32     4' Flute d'Amour     73
   16' Violone              32     2' Piccolo           61
   16' Dulciana             32     8' Clarinet          73
    8' Open Flute           32     8' English Horn      73
    8' Cello                32        Chimes            25
    8' Dulciana             12        Harp Celesta      61
   16' Trombone             32

   [Received online from Jeff Scofield September 9, 2012]

Documents

(1939-11-01) Write-up from THE DIAPASON November 1939 Stoplist and description -Jeff Scofield