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Andover Organ Co. Opus 27 (1957)

First Parish Unitarian Universalist
7 Concord Road
Billerica, MA

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


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Notes

2004-10-30 - The original builder was S. S. Hamill (1869, Opus 369). -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - From unknown location in 1886. Rebuilt & enlarged by Andover. Burned 26 Dec 1967. [Replaced a 1m. Hook, said to have been Op. 2, which was moved to a Lowell church.] -Database Manager

2009-05-28 - Updated through online information from Lisa Lucius. -Database Manager

2017-11-30 - "Organ built by Samuel S. Hamill of East Cambridge, Mass., in 1869 and evidently moved from an unknown location and altered by him for the Billerica church in 1886; rebuilt and enlarged by the Andover Organ Company of Methuen, Mass., in 1957; destroyed by fire on December 26, 1967." (Boston Organ Club Newsletter, December 1967) -Database Manager


Stoplist

Typed specification Source: from Boston Organ Club Newsletter (December 1967) Date not recorded

Billerica, Massachusetts
First Parish Church, Unitarian-Universalist

Andover Organ Company   1957      2 manuals, 16 registers, 14 stops, 17 ranks
Originally built by Samuel S. Hamill (1869); moved to Billerica (1886)
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         GREAT ORGAN                         SWELL ORGAN
      8' Open Diapason           58       8' St. Diapason (TC)       46
      8' Dulciana (TC)           46       8' St. Diapason Bass       12
      8' Melodia (TC)            46       4' Fugara                  58
      8' St. Diapason Bass       12       2' Flageolet               58
      4' Octave                  58   1 1/3' Larigot                 58
      4' Flute (TC)              46          Sesquialtera II (to f3) 58
  2 2/3' Twelfth                 58          Vox Tremolo
      2' Fifteenth               58
         Mixture III (to f3)    132          COUPLERS
                                             Great to Pedal
         PEDAL ORGAN                         Swell to Pedal
     16' Open Bass               32          Swell to Great


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2017-11-30]


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