Better Pipe Organ Database

Wm. Johnson & Son Opus 781 (1892)

First Church of Monson
5 High Street
Monson, MA

OHS convention: 2015

Images

2014-01-21 - Sanctuary Interior, Chancel, and Organ Case (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

2014-01-21 - Chancel and Organ Case (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

2019-03-24 - Church exterior (Stephen St. Denis/Stephen St. Denis)

2019-03-24 - Organ at the front of the church (Stephen St. Denis/Stephen St. Denis)

Consoles

Main

3 manuals
31 stops
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes

Notes

2014-03-13 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Identified by James R. Stettner, based on information from photo of the organ on the Facebook page of Music Director Michael-Thomas Gilman. -- -Database Manager

Stoplist

Specification from OHS Convention Handbook, 2015 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Monson, Massachusetts
The First Church of Monson, Congregational

Wm. Johnson & Son   Opus 781   1892          3 manuals, 31 stops, 35 ranks
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        GREAT ORGAN                          SWELL ORGAN
    16' Double Open Diapason  61         16' Bourdon               61
     8' Open Diapason         61          8' Open Diapason         61
     8' Viola da Gamba        61          8' Salicional            54 (b)
     8' Doppelflöte           61          8' Aeoline               61
     4' Octave                61          8' Stopped Diapason      61
     4' Flauto Traverso       61          8' Quintadena            61
 2 2/3' Twelfth               61          4' Violina               61
     2' Fifteenth             61          4' Flute Harmonique      61
        Mixture III          183          2' Flautina              61
     8' Trumpet               61             Dolce Cornet III     183
        Cathedral Chimes      25 (a)      8' Cornopean             61
        Great to Great 16                 8' Oboe                  61
        Great Unison Off                     Tremolo
        Great to Great 4                     Swell to Swell 16
                                             Swell Unison Off
        CHOIR ORGAN                          Swell to Swell 4
     8' Geigen Principal      61
     8' Dulciana              61             PEDAL ORGAN (c)
     8' Melodia               61         32' Quintaton             --
     4' Fugara                61         16' Double Open Diapason  32
     4' Flute d'Amour         61         16' Bourdon               32
     8' Clarinet              61          8' Open Diapason         pf
        Tremolo                           8' Gedeckt (ext)         12
        Choir to Choir 16                 8' Violoncello           32
        Choir Unison Off                  4' Octave                pf
        Choir to Choir 4                 16' Trombone              pf
                                             Cathedral Chimes      GT (a)

    (a) 1987 addition
    (b) 1-7 common with Quintadena
    (c) Pedal compass originally 30 notes; extended to 32 notes in 1953

        ACCESSORIES (1987 console rebuilding by Czelusniak et Dugal, Inc.)
                                 
        COUPLERS                             COMBINATIONS (8 levels)
        Great to Pedal      8  4             Swell       6   (thumb)
        Swell to Pedal      8  4             Great       6   (thumb)
        Choir to Pedal      8  4             Choir       6   (thumb)
        Swell to Great  16  8  4             Pedal       6   (thumb)
        Choir to Great  16  8  4             General     8   (thumb & toe)
        Great to Choir      8                General Cancel  (thumb)
        Swell to Choir  16  8  4             Set             (thumb)

        EXPRESSION                           REVERSIBLES
        Balanced Pedal - Swell               SW/PED, GT/PED, CH/PED,
        Balanced Pedal - Choir               SW/GT, CH/GT, GT/CH, SW/CH
        Crescendo Pedal (w/ind. lights)      Sforzando (thumb & toe)


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2015-06-10]