Better Pipe Organ Database

Geo. H. Ryder Opus 3 (1871)

St. John's Episcopal Church
260 Gorham Street
Lowell, MA

Images

2015-06-07 - Keydesk (Photograph by Ralph Funaro/Database Manager)

2015-06-07 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by Ralph Funaro/Database Manager)

2015-06-07 - Pipe Facade and Keydesk (Photograph by Ralph Funaro/Database Manager)

2010s - Church exterior (Parish Facebook Page /Andrew Scanlon)

2010s - Church interior (Parish Facebook Page /Andrew Scanlon)

2010s - Organ in chancel (Parish Facebook Page /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
21 stops
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 (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2008-10-23 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ is in a chamber in the front left corner of the church. There are two facades: the larger encased facade is on the nave side. The pipe fence facade is over the keydesk on the chancel side. The stoplist is quite generous. The organ has 12 foot trundles controlling the water motor (now gone), chimes (added 20th cent. on T-P action), manual and pedal combinations, octave couplers, and the Swell Tremulant. Source: extant organ documented March, 1988. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Specification from <i>The Organ in New England</i> by Barbara Owen (Raleigh: The Sunbury Press, 1979) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Lowell, Massachusetts
St. John's Episcopal Church

Geo. H. Ryder   1871                        2 manuals, 21 stops, 24 ranks
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        Source: Examination of extant organ by Barbara Owen

        GREAT ORGAN                          SWELL ORGAN
     8' Principal           58           16' Lieb. Gedeckt Bass   12
     8' Dolce               58           16' Lieb. Gedeckt Treble 49 tc
     8' Viola di Gamba      58            8' Geigen Principal     58
     8' Wald Flöte          58            8' Harmonica            58
     4' Octave              58            8' Gedeckt              58
     4' Rohrflöte           58            4' Violina              58
 2 2/3' Quint               58            4' Spitzflöte           58
     2' Super Octave        58               Mixture II          116
        Mixture III        174            8' Hautbois Discant     46 tc
     8' Tromba              58            8' Fagotto Bass         12
                                             Chimes *
        PEDAL ORGAN                          * added 20th c., t-p action
    16' Violon Bass         27
    16' Sub Bass            27               COUPLERS
     8' Violoncello         27               Great to Pedal
                                             Swell to Pedal
        MECHANICALS                          Swell to Great
        Swell Tremulant                      Swell to Great Suboctave
        Great to Pedal Reversible
        7 combination pedals


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2015-01-02]