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Unknown Builder (1930ca.)

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Roman Catholic Church
78 Union Street
Methuen, MA

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Images

2023-06-06 - Exterior in 2023 (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

ca. 1970 - Altar (Photograph from an archival source: Mt Carmel School Facebook page, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

1997 - Church Interior, 1997, from organ loft (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

1997 - Console, bench, front pipes 1997 (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

1997 - Keydesk of Hutchings organ in rear gallery (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

1997 - Interior of Church 1997 showing Hutchings Organ in rear gallery, center. Speakers on either side are from an Allen Organ installed in 1990s (Photograph by Unknown/Andrew Scanlon)

2010 - Church exterior in 2010 (Photograph by Unknown, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
10 stops
11 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: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1980. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Relocated from Congregational Church, Belmont, MA. -Database Manager

2007-05-14 - Updated through online information from Joseph R. Olefirowicz. -- As this church was built around 1930 as a mission church, the organ was most likely in another location originally. The organ posseses a unique set of mechanical pedals, Great Forte, Great Piano, a Great to Pedal reversible (mechanical) and a two hitchdowns - a Swell to Great 4' and a Tremolo (a tiny hitchdown pedal to the right of the cast iron swell shoe at an impossible to reach angle to the right!) -Database Manager

2009-06-07 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

2010-06-17 - Updated through online information from David Poile. -- I am an organist and researcher. Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish closed. It is not known what happened with the organ. -Database Manager

2011-05-30 - Posted to PIPORG-L May 28, 2011 by Stephen Roberts: - On May 10 a group dismantled the organ during the course of a very long day, directed by Ben Mague of the Andover Organ Company. On Wednesday, June 1, we will be packing and loading the organ and then load the container truck. This organ will be sent to Bolivia, where it will be installed in the chapel of an orphanage in the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. -Database Manager

2022-07-26 - The organ is now in the Church of Jesus Nazareno in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. -Andrew Scanlon

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the console January 18, 1989 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Methuen, Massachusetts
Our Lady of Mount Carmel R.C. Church

Geo. S. Hutchings, Opus 213, 1890 - Original Specifications
Unknown Builder, ca. 1930 - Installation of used Hutchings

GREAT
   8'   Open Diapason.                  61
   8'   Melodia.                        61
   8'   Dulciana.                       61
   4'   Octave                          61

SWELL (Expressive)
   8'   Violin Diapason           (tc)  49
   8'   Salicional.                     61
   8'   Stopped Diapason Treble.  (tc)  49
   8'   Stopped Diapason Bass.          12
   4'   Flute Harmonique.               61
   8'   Oboe.                     (tc)  49

PEDAL
   16'  Bourdon.                        27

COUPLERS (Drawknob)
   Swell to Pedal                      [8]
   Great to Pedal                      [8]
   Swell to Great                      [8]

FOOT LEVERS (Unlabeled; l-r)
   Great Piano...........8' Mel., 8' Dulc.
   Sw. to Gr. 8ves..............hitch-down
   Great Forte..........8, 8, 8, 4. (full)
   Gr. to Ped...................reversible
   Sw. Tremolo..................hitch-down

PEDAL MOVEMENTS
   Swell Expression                 (bal.)

ACTION: Mechanical key & stop
VOICES: 10
STOPS: 11
RANKS: 10
PIPES: 525

 [Received on line from James R. Stettner June 07, 2009.]

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