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Hutchings-Votey Organ Co. Opus 1546 (1904)

Hedding Methodist Episcopal / Hedding United Methodist: Sanctuary; front
40 Washington Street
Barre, VT

Images

2021-08-06 - Church exterior (Photograph by Kenneth C. Zirkel, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2019-07-17 - Organ facade (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page [cropped], submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2019-07-17 - Sanctuary interior showing organ position in front (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

2 manuals
13 stops
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical

Notes

2004-10-30 - Altered 1953, electrified. Rebuilt Moore 1978, 2-14. -Database Manager

2005-09-04 - On-line update from Michael Loris -- In 1953, the mechanical stop action (only) was replaced by crude electro-pneumatic motors and tilting tablets. There were no tonal changes at that time. In 1970, I built four new mechanical stop actions for the three couplers and Pedal Bourdon 16'. These four electro-pneumatic actions had become almost inoperable. -Database Manager

2013-05-25 - Updated through information in the 2013 OHS Atlas: -- Rebuilt A. David Moore, 1982 -Database Manager

2021-07-09 - The organ is installed in a chamber at the left front of the Akron plan building. The zinc facade is a silver-colored leaf-- perhaps Palladium or white gold. The organ was refurbished by A. David Moore in 1978 with significant tonal changes. The electro-pneumatic stop action from a previous rebuild was removed and was returned to mechanical action in the style of the original. The wood manual flutes were denicked, and the metal diapasons were deslotted and all metal pipes were fitted with tuning slides. The Oboe Gamba was replaced with a nineteenth-century Oboe from stock, the Sw. Salicional was cut-down to become a 2', and the Great Gamba was replaced with a 2' Fifteenth and 2-rank Mixture. -Scot Huntington

Stoplist

Source: Taken from console 11/22/2022

Great Principal 8, Melodia 8, Octave 4, Super Octave 2, Mixture I-II, Sesquialtera II

Swell Bourdon Bass 16, Bourdon Treble 16, Open Diapason 8, Stopped Diapason 8, Aeoline 8, Harmonic Flute 4, Italian Principal 2, Oboe 8

Pedal Subbass 16’

Controls Swell to Great, Swell to Pedal, Great to Pedal, Swell Tremulant, Blower Signal

Source: Recorded from memory 1978

Hutchings-Votey Organ Co. (Opus 1546, 1904)
Hedding Methodist Episcopal / Hedding United Methodist
Barre, Vermont

Compasses: 61/27

GREAT
8' Open Diapason
8' Viola da Gamba
8' Melodia          (stopped bass)
8' Dulciana
4' Octave

SWELL [enclosed]
16' Bourdon Treble  (t.c.)
16' Bourdon Bass    (1-12)
8'  Open Diapason
8'  Salicional
8'  Stopped Diapason
8'  Aeoline         (Quintadena bass)
4'  Harmonic Flute
8'  Oboe Gamba
    Tremolo

PEDAL
16' Bourdon

COUPLERS
Swell to Great
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal