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Unknown Builder

Union United Methodist Church
485 Columbus Avenue
Boston, MA

Note: Not playable. (in this location)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
31 stops
37 registers
5 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2015-01-10 - 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

2015-01-11 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist copied from the console June, 1989

Boston, Massachusetts
Union United Methodist Church

UNKNOWN BUILDER, Opus ____, 19__ - Original Specifications


GREAT                                        CHOIR
16  Diapason                     61          8   Diapason               61 or 73
8   Diapason                     61          8   Melodia                61 or 73
8   Grossflute                   61          8   Dulciana               61 or 73
8   Gamba                        61          4   Flute                  61 or 73
8   Gemshorn                     61          8   Clarinet               61 or 73
4   Octave                       61
2   Fifteenth                    61
8   Trumpet                      61          ECHO (Expressive - Antiphonal)
                                             8   Open Diapason          61 or 73
                                             8   Gedackt                61 or 73
SWELL (Expressive)                           8   Dulciana               61 or 73
    Bourdon Bass                 12          8   Vox Celeste      (tc)  49 or 61
16  Bourdon                49 or 61          8   Vox Humana             61 or 73
8   Diapason               61 or 73              Tremolo
8   Gedackt                61 or 73              Carillons                   (__)
8   Salicional             61 or 73
8   Vox Celeste            61 or 73
8   Aeoline                61 or 73          PEDAL
4   Violina                61 or 73          16  Diapason                     30
4   Flute                  61 or 73          16  Bourdon                      30
    Cornet   [III ?]            183              Soft Bourdon           (Sw)  –-
8   Cornopean              61 or 73          10⅔ Quint           (Sw or Ped)  –-
8   Oboe                   61 or 73          8   Floete               (Bour)  12
    Tremolo                                  8   Gedackt                (Sw)  –-


COUPLERS                                     FINGER PISTONS
Swell to Pedal                               Swell                       0,1 – 5
Great to Pedal                               Great                       0,1 – 4
Choir to Pedal                               Choir                       0,1 – 3
Echo  to Pedal                               Pedal                             0
                                             00      [General Cancel]
Swell to Great
Choir to Great
Echo  to Great                               TOE STUDS
                                             Swell                         2 – 5
Swell to Choir                               Great                         1 – 4
Echo  to Choir                               Choir                         1 & 2
                                             Pedal Release
Echo  to Swell                               Sw – Ped                      (rev)
                                             Gt – Ped                      (rev)
                                             Sforzando                     (rev)
PEDAL MOVEMENTS 
Swell Expression             (bal.)
Echo  Expression             (bal.)
Crescendo                    (bal.)



ACTION: E-P        VOICES: __        STOPS: 37       RANKS: __        PIPES: _____
                                 (inc. carillons)

NOTES
The organ is installed in divided chambers on either side of the chancel. Each
chamber is covered across the front and down the facing sides with a façade of
large, gold-painted pipes. The front-facing façades are 3-sectional containing
17 pipes arranged 5-7-5. The two longer, facing facades have 13 pipes each. A
large, 3-sectional flat of 37 gold-painted pipes arranged: 14-9-14 lines the
front wall and connects the two chamber façades. This is a total of 97 façade
pipes.

The console is in the center of the chancel with the organist facing the front
wall. The console is slightly recessed into the floor. The stopjamb are flat,
angled pieces of wood with the drawknobs protruding through. The drawknob faces
are oblique.

Sources: James R. Stettner; extant, non-functional organ

The Union Church
485 Columbus Ave.
Boston, MA. 02118
(617) 536-0872                               Documented: June, 1989

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