Little Harbor Chapel
335 Little Harbor Rd
Portsmouth, NH
Note: Not playable. (in this location)
Images
2021-07-26 - Original water motor for generator. (Photograph by John Roper/John Roper)
2021-07-26 - Tremulant (Photograph by John Roper/John Roper)
2021-07-26 - Swell regulator (Photograph by John Roper/John Roper)
2021-07-26 - Great regulator (Photograph by John Roper/John Roper)
2021-07-26 - Pedal pipework (Photograph by John Roper/John Roper)
2021-07-26 - Pedal pipework (Photograph by John Roper/John Roper)
2021-07-26 - Swell pipework (Photograph by John Roper/John Roper)
2021-07-26 - Great pipework (Photograph by John Roper/John Roper)
2021-07-26 - Blower (Photograph by John Roper/John Roper)
2021-07-26 - Great access door (Photograph by John Roper/John Roper)
2021-07-26 - Great facade removed showing pipework (Photograph by John Roper/John Roper)
2021-07-26 - Thumb pistons (Photograph by John Roper/John Roper)
2021-07-26 - Pedals, swell pedal, and crescendo pedal (Photograph by John Roper/John Roper)
2021-07-26 - Builder's nameplate (Photograph by John Roper/John Roper)
2021-07-26 - Couplers (Photograph by John Roper/John Roper)
2021-07-26 - Swell stops (Photograph by John Roper/John Roper)
2021-07-26 - Great and pedal stops (Photograph by John Roper/John Roper)
2021-05-17 - Building exterior (Photograph by Chapel website, submitted by John Roper/John Roper)
2020 - Room back (Photograph by Chapel website, submitted by John Roper/John Roper)
2020 - Facade and console (Photograph by Chapel website, submitted by John Roper/John Roper)
2020 - Facade and console (Photograph by Chapel website, submitted by John Roper/John Roper)
2020 - Room (Photograph by Chapel website, submitted by John Roper/John Roper)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
- 2 manuals
- 10 stops
- 11 registers
- 3 divisions
- Key action Type: Electrical
- Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
- Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
- Manual compass: 61 notes
- Pedal compass: 30 notes
- Pedal Type: Flat Straight
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
- Has crescendo
- Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2018-11-21 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ.
<br>Identified by Robert Faucher, who has heard or played the organ.<br>This building was originally built as the Chapel of the new Jerusalem (Swedenborgian). When the chapel was founded and built in 2901, it was on the property of founder Arthur A. Carey. According to the present chapel website, there were non-denominational services being held here as early as 1910. -Database Manager
2018-11-28 - Updated by Robert Faucher, who gave this as the source of the information: I personally inspected the organ.. <br> <br>Very limited accessibility to chambers due to Chancel renovations, many pipes damaged, windline removed between chambers, much mold and mildew throughout. -Database Manager
2021-07-26 - Inspected the organ on 7/26/21: Blower (located in the basement) is a 3/4hp Spencer with a Century 104/208v motor. It outputs 4" of wind. The original water motor and generator is still extant. Windlines come down into either side of the basement from their respective divisions but they have been disconnected from the blower. The swell tremulant is extant in the basement, connected as it was originally. Pipework is in fair condition, some pipes crushed, but the majority are ok. The great and pedal have tubular pneumatic stop and note action. The swell has TP stop action, but electric note action. The 11 facade pipes speak and are part of the 8' open diapason. The swell and crencendo pedals had been covered up at some point in the past, but they have been put back in place and are still functioning. The swell expression pedal is mechanical. Someone painted over the pedal lever labels. The first from the left is a hitch-down sfortzando. The second from the left is a Great to Pedal coupler. Access to the chambers is difficult bordering on impossible. -John Roper
Stoplist
Source: Taken from console and pipework 7/26/2021
Great Open Diapason 8 (61, 1-11 M, 12-17 W, 18-61 M), Melodia 8 (61, W), Dulciana 8 (61, M), Octave 4 (61, M)
Swell Stopped Diapason 8 (61, 1-49 W, 50-61 M), Aeoline 8 (61, M), Flute Harmonique 4 (61, M), Viola 4 (61, M), Salicional Oboe 8 (61, M), Tremolo, Swell to Swell 16, Swell to Swell 4
Pedal Bourdon 16 (30, W), Flute 8 (12, W)
Couplers Great to Pedal 8, Swell to Pedal 8, Swell to Great 8, Great to Swell 8
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