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Steere & Turner [John S. Steere] Opus 220 (1886)

Images

2015-08-01 - Dedication Plaque (Photograph by Jay Stryker/Database Manager)

2015-08-01 - Right Stop Jamb (Photograph by Jay Stryker/Database Manager)

2015-08-01 - Right Stop Jamb Detail - Stop Knobs (Photograph by Jay Stryker/Database Manager)

2015-06-09 - Keydesk and Builder's Name Stencil (Photograph by Jay Stryker/Database Manager)

2015-06-09 - Keydesk and Pipe Facade (Photograph by Jay Stryker/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

• Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
• Console position: Keydesk Attached
• 1 manuals
• 9 stops
• 6 registers
• 2 divisions
• Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
• Stop action Type: Mechanical
• Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Flat 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 - From Chapel, Agricultural College, Amherst, MA. -Database Manager

2015-06-08 - Updated through online information from Jay. -- This wonderful small organ is in use on Sundays and in an occasional concert. Most recent tuning May 2015. New blower installed 2014. -Database Manager

2015-08-30 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from the console June 9, 2015 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst

Steere and Turner, Springfield, Massachusetts, Opus 220, 1886

16' Diapason
8'  Open Diapason  Pipes of the bass octaves seen above console 
8'  Stopped Diapason (split)
8'  Dulciana (split)
4'  Harmonic Flute (split)
4'  Octave

Octave Coupler
Pedal to Manual Coupler 

Tremulant   not used 
Blower Signal  not used

Note  
keyboard is split at middle "c" for selecting bass and/or treble of three ranks

Two foot operated "pistons" (presets)

Swell pedal






 [Received from Jay Stryker 2015-06-11.]

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