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Bozeman-Gibson Opus 23 (1982)

St. Paul's Episcopal Church
15 St Paul Street
Brookline, MA

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


Images


2020s - Exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Society of Architectural Historians, submitted by John K. Robinson/John K. Robinson)

c. November 2022 - Bozeman-Gibson case with Marshall and Ogletree console (Photograph by Church's Facebook page., submitted by John K. Robinson/John K. Robinson)

c. 2020 - The Bozeman-Gibson organ still intact (Photograph by Church website, submitted by John K. Robinson/John K. Robinson)

Consoles

Main


Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1983 -Database Manager

2013-10-09 - According to Fred E. Campbell, the organ includes pipework from the E. & G.G. Hook organ destroyed in 1976. -Database Manager

2022-10-15 - In a move that defies rational explanation, the church discarded this landmark instrument during the summer of 2022 and replaced it with an infamous second-hand electronic device that was recycled from Trinity Wall Street after they threw it out in favor of a new pipe organ. The speakers of the imitation are placed inside the Bozeman case and 16' facade, left in place as a sham. At the age of 40, the organ was in need of long-deferred renovation and stop-action updating, which would have cost a fraction of what was spent on an imitation which will need to be replaced at great expense before it is even half the age of the Bozeman. Further investigation is needed to determine if at least the excellent pipework was saved for recycling, or if the whole lot was taken to a landfill. -Scot Huntington


Stoplist

Original document from Scot Huntington. Source: Stoplist from console 07/13/1954

Brookline, Massachusetts
St. Paul's Episcopal
Organ by Bozeman-Gibson, 1983

Compasses: 56/30

GREAT  (chest upper level)
16' Principal  (facade, zinc and tin)
16' Bourdon    (wood)
8'  Octave     (Hook)
8'  Chimney Flute 
8'  Viola      (Hook)
4'  Octave     (Hook)
4'  Spire Flute
2 2/3' Nazard
2'  Piccolo
1 3'5' Tierce
IV  Mixture    (1 1/3, 1, 2/3, 1/2)
8'  Trumpet    (double-block french)
4'  Clarion    (double-block french)

SWELL    (enclosed, chest at impost level)
8' Violin Diapason  (tin, recycled)
8' Stopped Diapason (wood)
8' Celeste          (t.c. recycled, Hook?)
4' Principal
4' Spindle Flute
2' Octave
1 1/3' Larigot
II  Sesquialtera    (2 2/3 + 1 3/5)
III Sharp           (1, 2/3, 1/2)
16' Bassoon         (fr. the Harvard Club)
8'  Shawm           (double-block french Hautbois)
    
PEDAL  (on Great chest, 2 independent stops, Trombone behind main case)
16' Principal   (Gr)
16' Bourdon     (Gr)
8'  Octave      (Gr)
8'  Flute       (Gr)
4'  Choral Bass (recycled)
16' Trombone    (Estey wood resonators w/new Hook-style wood shallots)
8'  Trumpet     (Gr)

Swell to Great
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal

General Tremulant
Temperament: Kirnberger III
Single wedge reservoir in basement
Ebony naturals, bone-capped sharps
"Action suspendu" keyaction; mechanical stop action
		

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