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William Stevens (1867)

Belleville Congregational Church: Sanctuary; rear gallery
300 High Street
Newburyport, MA

Images

ca. 1890's - Organ in rear musician's gallery (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page; Advertisement for 150th Anniv. Celebration of Organ, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

ca. 1910's - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: H.P. Macintosh, photographer, Newburyport, Mass.; via Digital Commonwealth [adjusted], submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
2 manuals
22 stops
28 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 25 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Trigger/Hitch-Down Expression
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Has combination trundles

Notes

2004-10-30 - This entry represents the installation of a new organ. Identified from the extant, altered organ. Electrified in 1958 by Rostron Kershaw. -Database Manager

2008-09-15 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- 3-sectional Moorish case front with 16 pipes of the Great 16' Tenoroon en facade arranged: 5-6-5. The organ was dedicated December 18, 1867. Source: 1987 OHS Convention Handbook. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist from 1987 OHS Handbook

Newburyport, Massachusetts
Belleville Congregational Church

William Stevens, 1867


    GREAT (56 notes):
16' Tenoroon                     56 m
8'  Open Diapason                56 m
8'  Melodia                (TC)  44 w
8'  Stop'd Diapason Bass         12 w
8'  Keraulophon Treble     (TC)	 44 m
8'  Keraulophon Bass             12 m
4'  Octave                       56 m
4'  Flute Harmonique             56 m
2⅔' Twelfth                      56 m
2'  Fifteenth                    56 m
II  Mixture                     112 m
8'  Trumpet Treble         (TC)  44 m
8'  Trumpet Bass                 12 m
8'  Krum Horn              (TC)  44 m
8'  Fagotto                      12 m


    SWELL (56 notes, Expressive):
16' Bourdon Treble         (TC)  44 w
16' Bourdon Bass                 12 w
8'  Open Diapason                56 m
8'  Stop'd Diapason              56 w&m
8'  Eolina                       56 m
4'  Flute Traverso               56 w
4'  Violina                      56 m
2'  Flautina                     56 m
8'  Oboe                   (TC)  44 m
8'  Bassoon                      12 m
8'  Clarionett             (TC)  44 m
    Tremulant


    PEDAL (25 notes):
16' Double Open Diapason         25 w
8'  Violoncello                  25 m
    Pedal Check

 	
    COUPLERS (Drawknob):
Swell to Pedal
Great to Pedal 	

Swell to Great 	
Pedal to Sub Bass	


    FOOT TRUNDLES (2 unlabelled pedals):
Great piano -

Great forte -
	

    PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell Expression       (hitch-down)

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