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Wm. B.D. Simmons (1869)

First Parish Unitarian
725 Main Street
Lancaster, MA

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
17 stops
14 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Trigger/Hitch-Down Expression
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2014-07-03 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Identified by James R. Stettner, based on personal knowledge of the organ. -- -Database Manager

2014-07-04 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- 3-sectional case with 21 pipes en facade arranged: 7-7-7 in 3 Romanesque arches. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from Andover Organ Co. files; and the extant, altered organ Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Lancaster, Massachusetts
First Parish, Unitarian

Wm. B.D. SIMMONS & Co., 1869 - Original Specifications


GREAT                                        COUPLERS (Drawknob)
   [8]   Open Diapason              58          Swell and Pedal
   [8]   Dulciana             (tc)  46          Great and Pedal
   [8]   Hohl Flute           (tc)  46
   [8]   Stop'd Diap. Bass          12          Swell and Great
   [4]   Principal                  58
   [4]   Flute Harmonic             58
   [2]   Fifteenth                  58       FOOT LEVERS (Unlabeled; l - r)
   [II]  Mixture       [19-22]     116          Gr. Piano - 
   [8]   Trumpet                    58
                                                Gr. Forte -

SWELL (Expressive)
   [8]   Stop'd Diapason      (tc)  46       PEDAL MOVEMENTS
   [8]   Salicional           (tc)  46          Swell Expression       (hitch-down)
   [8]   Keraulophon          (tc)  46
   [8]   Stop'd Dia. Bass           12
   [4]   Principal                  58       MISC. CONTROLS
   [8]   Oboe                 (tc)  46          Bellows Signal
   [8]   Bassoon                    12
         Tremblant
                                             ACTION: Mech. Key & Stop

PEDAL                                        VOICES: 14          STOPS: 17
   [16]  Stop'd Sub Bass            27
         Pedal Check                         RANKS: 15           PIPES: 803


NOTES
The preceding stoplist is taken from the files of the Andover Organ Co. who rebuilt the
organ in 1963. Information was also taken from notes included with the Organ Historical
Society's recording “Historic American Organs” (Northwest of Boston), catalogue number
st-5.

 [Received from James R. Stettner 2014-07-05.]

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