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Thomas Johnston (1756)

Christ Church, Episcopal (Old North)
Boston, MA

Consoles

Main


Notes

2012-09-27 - Identified through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -Database Manager

2012-10-05 - Updated through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -- Owen, 1979, reports that this instrument remained in use until 1821, when Goodrich built a new instrument using at least the old Johnston case, and perhaps some of the pipework. -Database Manager


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The author "P", writing on Organ-Building in New-England" in The New-England Magazine, Vol. 6 (1834), pp. 205-6 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Christ Episcopal (Old North) Church, Boston, Mass.

1756 Thomas Johnston organ

GREAT:

Open Diapason
Stopt Diapason
Principal
Twelfth
Fifteenth
Sesquialter III ranks
Trumpet

SWELL or ECHO:

Stopt diapason
Principal
Flute
Trumpet

"The three first stops of the swell were carried through in the bass, outside of the swell box, and thus formed a choir-organ and swell combined." 

 [Received from John Speller 2013-05-20.]

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