Better Pipe Organ Database

W.B.D. Simmons & Co. (1874)

Second Baptist Church
Common St. (near Lawrence St.)
Lawrence, MA

Images

ca. 1880's - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Lawrence Public Library Special Collections, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

2 manuals
19 stops
19 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)

Notes

2013-05-10 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Identified by James R. Stettner, based on information from Personal research into the history of organs in Lawrence, Masachusetts. -- -Database Manager

2013-05-11 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist taken from Robert J. Reich files January 3, 2021

Lawrence, Massachusetts
Second Baptist Church

Wm B.D. SIMMONS, 1874 - Original Specifications - Reconstructed


GREAT                                        COUPLERS
16   Bourdon               (tc)  46          Swell to Pedal
8    Open Diapason               58          Great to Pedal
8    Viol d'Gamba                58
8    Melodia                     58          Swell to Great
4    Octave                      58
4    Flute       [chimney]       58
2    Piccolo     [chimney]       58          FOOT TRUNDLES
II   Mixture      [19-22]       116          Undocumented
8    Trumpet      (tc or tf)  41/46

                                             PEDAL MOVEMENTS
SWELL (Expressive)                           Swell Expression             (bal.)
8    Open Diapason               58
8    Stopped Diapason            58
8    Viola                       58
4    Principal                   58
4    Flute                       58
?                                58          ACTION: Mech. Key & Stop
8    Oboe                        58
     Tremolo                                 VOICES: 19

                                             STOPS: 19
PEDAL
16   Open Bass                   27          RANKS: 20
16   Bourdon                     27
8    Cello                       27          PIPES: 1,026 or 1,031


NOTES
Both the Great 4' Flute and 2' Piccolo were chimney flutes. The 4' Flute had a
stopped wood bass; 37 chimneyed pipes; and the rest open metal trebles. The 2'
Piccolo began with 37 chimneyed pipes, and the rest were open metal trebles.

When the Free Will Baptist and Second Baptist merged in 1924 and built a new
edifice on the site of the Free Will Baptist, the Simmons was moved-along, but
rebuilt and electrified by William W. Laws of Beverly, MA. The Great and Swell
chests became the Great and Choir divisions of the 'new' 3-manual organ.

The exact nomenclature of stops and controls is not known, as the organ was
never documented in original form.

Sources: Robert J. Reich files


Second Baptist Church
Common Street
Lawrence, Massachusetts