1999-05-04 - Balcony and Organ Case (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)
1999-05-04 - Console (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)
OHS convention: 2000
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 2000. -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Barker lever to Great and its couplers. Wind pressure 2 3/4, Pedal and Barker 3 1/4. The Churchin this building, previously had an 1821 Appleton, replaced by an 1850 Wm. B. D. Simmons. Water damaged in a 1982 fire. Repaired 1992-1994 by George Bozeman & Co., Lahaise & Co., and S. L. Huntington & Co. Reopened 24 Oct 1993. (44 stops on Opus list.) -Database Manager
2008-09-17 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- 3-sectional facade with 33 stenciled pipes arranged: 7-[6-7-6-]-7. -Database Manager
2019-06-06 - Updated by Scot Huntington, who maintains the organ. The Swell Stopped Diapason 8', 58 pipes, has been omitted from the stoplist below [corrected 2021-02-07]. In May 2019, the organ has been removed for a full restoration by S.L. Huntington & Co. The organ will be out for approximately two years while the interior of the historic building undergoes a complete restoration. -Database Manager
Source: Specification from 'The Organ in New England' by Barbara Owen (Raleigh: The Sunbury Press, 1979) Date not recorded
Boston (Roxbury), Massachusetts
First Church of Roxbury (Unitarian Universalist)
Hook & Hastings Opus 1171 1883 3 manuals, 34 stops, 39 ranks
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Source: Examination by Barbara Owen
GREAT ORGAN SWELL ORGAN
16' Open Diapason 58 16' Bourdon Treble 46 tc
8' Open Diapason 58 16' Bourdon Bass 12
8' Viola da Gamba 58 8' Open Diapason 58
8' Doppel Flöte 58 8' Stopped Dipason 58
4' Octave 58 8' Salicional 58
4' Flute Harmonique 58 8' Aeoline 58
2 2/3' Twelfth 58 8' Quintadena 58
2' Fifteenth 58 4' Violina 58
IV Mixture 232 4' Flauto Traverso 58
8' Trumpet 58 2' Flautino 58
III Dolce Cornet 174
8' Cornopean 58
CHOIR ORGAN 8' Oboe 58
8' Geigen Principal 58 Tremolo
8' Melodia 58
8' Keraulophon 58 PEDAL ORGAN
8' Dulciana 58 16' Open Diapason 27
4' Fugara 58 16' Bourdon 27
4' Flute d'Amour 58 8' Violoncello 27
2' Piccolo 58 16' Trombone 27
8' Clarionet 58 *
* 1-12 Oboe bass
COUPLERS MECHANICALS
Swell to Great Great Organ Separation
Choir to Great Bellows Signal
Swell to Choir Great to Pedal Reversible
Great to Pedal Balanced Swell Pedal
Swell to Pedal
Choir to Pedal 4 Combination Pedals
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2014-12-31]
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