First Parish Unitarian
Main St. & Parker Ave.
Northfield, MA
OHS convention: 2015
Images
2023-05-21 - Stenciled façade pipes (Photograph by Stephen St. Denis/Stephen St. Denis)
2023-05-21 - OHS Historic Organ Citation (Photograph by Stephen St. Denis/Stephen St. Denis)
2023-05-21 - Keydesk and stops (Photograph by Stephen St. Denis/Stephen St. Denis)
2023-05-21 - Organ case and façade (Photograph by Stephen St. Denis/Stephen St. Denis)
2023-05-21 - Church Interior (Photograph by Stephen St. Denis/Stephen St. Denis)
2019-06-19 - Church exterior (Photograph by Stephen St. Denis/Stephen St. Denis)
ca. 2019 - Organ case at the front (Photograph from an archival source: Church archives via parish website, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
ca. 1880's - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Parish archives via parish website, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
Unknown - Sanctuary Interior, Chancel, and Organ Case ((2015) Photograph by Andrew Hagberg/Database Manager)
Unknown - Chancel and Organ Case (Photograph (1978) by Jim Lewis/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
- Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
- 2 manuals
- 13 stops
- 15 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: 58 notes
- Pedal compass: 17 notes
- Pedal Type: Flat Straight
- Expression Type: Trigger/Hitch-Down Expression
- Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
- Has combination trundles
Notes
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1995 -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - From Unitarian, Springfield, MA in 1871. In 1871 building. -Database Manager
2008-09-17 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- This was the moving and reinstallation without tonal or mechanical changes to the 1842 E. & G.G. Hook, Opus 48, from First Unitarian in Springfield, MA. to Northfield. The 5-sectional facade with 23 stencilled pipes arranged: 3-5-7-5-3. The pipes were originally gilded, and were likely stenciled when the organ was moved to this location in 1871. This is a GGG-compass organ, without the GGG#. Source: extant organ documented April, 1989. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Specification from OHS Convention Handbook, 2015 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Northfield, Massachusetts
First Parish of Northfield, Unitarian
E. & G.G. Hook Opus 48 1842 2 manuals, 13 stops, 13 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN (GGG, AAA-f3) SWELL ORGAN (GGG, AAA-f3)
8' Open Diapason 47 8' Open Diapason 35
8' Dulciana 35 8' Stopped Diapason 35
8' St. Diapason Treble 35 4' Principal 35
8' St. Diapason Bass 23 8' Hautboy 35
4' Principal 58 8' Stopped Diapason Bass 23 a
4' Flute 58
2 2/3' Twelfth 58 PEDAL
2' Fifteenth 58 16' Sub Bass 13 b
8' Cremona 42
a unenclosed
b probably a later addition
ACCESSORIES
Swell & Great Coupler
Great & Pedals Coupler
2 combinationa pedals for Great
Bellows Signal
Swell pedal
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2015-06-11]
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