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Andover Organ Co. (1965)

St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church: Chapel / Lower Church
929 Main Street
Worcester, MA

OHS convention: 1968, 1983

Images

2022-04-15 - Left stop jamb (Photograph by Stephen St. Denis/Stephen St. Denis)

2022-04-15 - Right stop jamb (Photograph by Stephen St. Denis/Stephen St. Denis)

2022-04-15 - Keydesk. (Photograph by Stephen St. Denis/Stephen St. Denis)

2022-04-15 - Organ at the rear of the lower church (Photograph by Stephen St. Denis/Stephen St. Denis)

2022-04-15 - Exterior of the church with entrance to the lower church. (Photograph by Stephen St. Denis/Stephen St. Denis)

Consoles

Keydesk

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
8 stops
12 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: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: None

Notes

2004-10-30 - OCH from Unitarian, Worcester (2-12s); via upper church at St. Peter's. Altered Andover 1965. -Database Manager

2022-04-18 - From the Organ Historical Society, Inc. Organ Handbook 1983, page 75. "A two manual Hook & Hastings tracker, Opus 1654, 1895, built for the South Universalist Church, Worcester, was installed in the chancel at St. Peter’s Church in 1927, by Joseph W. Smith of Boylston Centre. In 1965, that organ was relocated to the lower church by the organ clearing house, and tonally revised by the Andover Organ Co. utilizing some pipe work from Steer & Turner Opus 1871, a large two-manual tracker built for the First Universalist Church, Worcester, subsequently electrified, and dismantled in 1965. The Hook & Hastings is still used in the lower church." Casavant Frères Ltée. (Opus 2938, 1967), OHS database ID # 45845 is in the upper church. -Stephen St. Denis

Stoplist

Source: From console photographs; supplemented by 1968 OHS Handbook

GREAT (58 notes) Open Diapason 8 (58 m), Dulciana 8 (58 m), Octave 4 (58 m), Mixture III-IV

Swell (58 notes, enclosed) Stop'd Diapason [TC] 8 (46 w&m), Unison Bass 8 (12 w), Flute 4 (58 m), Octavin 2 (58 m (added 1965; replaced Fifteenth))

Pedal (27 notes) Sub Bass 16 (27 w)

COUPLERS Sw. to Gr. Unison, Sw. to Gr. Super 8va, Great to Pedal, Swell to Pedal

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