2019-11-15 - Facade (Photograph by Mike Loukides/Database Manager)
OHS convention: 1994
Note: Not playable. (in this location)
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1994 -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Built for Chapel St. Congregational, New Haven. Moved by Hook & Hastings as second-hand #56 to Westville Cong. in 1871. Pedal compass enlarged in 1872 from 17 to 25 notes. 27-note pedalboard (still 25 pipes) added 1957 by Allen Hastings. Merged with Methodists to become Westville United. [Previously used a melodeon c. 1840, still there.] -Database Manager
2006-02-19 - Updated through on-line information from Joseph Dzeda. -- In 2002, virtually on the eve of the instrument's 150th rededication concert, a serious roof leak damaged the Swell Organ, rendering it unplayable. The Great Organ is playable. The present congregation does not use the organ following the damage. -Database Manager
2008-09-26 - Updated through information from Scot Huntington: "The organ was severely damaged by water during a roof replacement project by an uninsured contractor during the summer of 2001, following the church's purchase by a Korean congregation. The organ has been unplayable and unused since. The congregation is not financially sound and the organ's future is uncertain." -Database Manager
2022-02-06 - The original pedal compass was 17 notes, which was enlarged to 25 notes in 1872; the 27-note Hutchings pedalboard was added in 1957 by Allen Hastings of Athol, Massachusetts; there are still only 25 pipes. The wind pressure, originally 2⅛," is now 2⅜." The keydesk is recessed behind four folding doors; the swell box has double shutters. Pipes 1-17 of the Gr. Op. Diapason 8' are in the case; pipes 1-5 of the Melodia Treble 8' are stopped; the Flute 4' is an open wood melodia; the Sesquialtera II is 19-22, breaking to 12-15 at c25. The St. Diapason 8' is a metal chimney flute from c25; the Gr. Trumpet 8' from c13 and the Sw. Trumpet 8' have been interchanged. The Sub Bass 16' is of open wood. -- *1994 OHS Handbook* -Paul R. Marchesano
Source: 1994 OHS Handbook
Great (56 notes) Op. Diapason 8 (56 m), Melodia Treble [TC] 8 (44 w), St. Diapason Bass 8 (12 w), Dulciana [TC] 8 (44 m), Principal 4 (56 m), Flute [TC] 4 (44 w), Twelfth 2⅔ (56 m), Fifteenth 2 (56 m), Tierce 1⅗ (56 m), Sesquialtera II (112 m), Trumpet Treble [TF] 8 (39 m), Trumpet Bass 8 (12 m), Clarinet [TF] 8 (39 m)
Swell (56 notes, enclosed from Tenor C) Bourdon Treble [TC] 16 (44 w), Bourdon Sw. Bass 16 (12 w), Op. Diapason [TC] 8 (44 m), St. Diapason [TC] 8 (44 w&m), St. Diapason Sw. Bass 8 (44 m), Viol da Gamba [TC] 8 (44 m), Principal [TC] 4 (44 m), Principal Sw. Bass 4 (12 m), Twelfth [TC] 2⅔ (44 m), Fifteenth [TC] 2 (44 m), Trumpet [TC] 8 (44 m), Hautboy [TC] 8 (44 m)
Pedal (27 notes) Sub Bass 16 (25 w)
Couplers Great and Swell , Pedals and Great , Pedals and Great
Pedal Movements 2 unlabelled Great pedals (missing), balanced Swell pedal
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