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Geo. H. Ryder Opus No. 114 (1886)

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

Consoles

Performance Platform

• Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
• Console position: Keydesk Attached
• 3 manuals
• 20 stops
• 28 registers
• 4 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: 30 notes
• Pedal Type: Flat Straight
• Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
• Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Stoplist

Source: Interpreted from extant organ in Barre, Vermont July, 2017

Boston, Massachusetts
New England Conservatory - Sleeper Hall

Nameplate: E & G.G. Hook & Hastings. BOSTON.
[No. 667, 1872]
Moved Geo. H. Ryder, No. 114, 1883
Altered Geo. H Ryder 1886

Compasses: 58/30

GREAT                                   SWELL [enclosed]
8'     Open Diapason                    8'     Stopped Diapason [wood]
8'     Gamba                            8'     Dulciana
8'     Stopped Diapason [Rohr]          4'     Flute Harmonique [wood]
4'     Octave                           4'     Violin
2 2/3' Twelfth                          8'     Oboe
2'     Fifteenth
8'     Trumpet

CHOIR                                   PEDALE
8'     Melodia       [wood]             16'    Open Diapason [wood]
8'     Dulciana                         16'    Bourdon       [wood]
4'     Flute d'Amour [wood]             8'     Flute         [wood]
2'     Piccolo
8'     Clarinet      [tc]

COUPLERS                                MECHANICALS
Swell to Great                          Swell Tremolo
Choir to Great                          Bellows Signal
Swell to Choir                          Great combinations: Forte, Piano
Great to Pedal                          Great to Pedale reversible
Swell to Pedal
Choir to Pedal

Documents

• (2020-10-04) History of the New England Conservatory Sleeper Hall Hook / Ryder Organ A thorough description of the history of the organ from inception, through numerous moves, to the present-day status in Vermont. -Scot L. Huntington

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