Better Pipe Organ Database

Ernest M. Skinner & Son Opus 507 (1936)

First Congregational Church
129 Main St.
Northampton, MA

OHS convention: 2015

Images

Unknown - Church Exterior (Vintage Postcard, courtesy of T. Bradford Willis, DDS (1930s)/Database Manager)

2014-01-20 - Sanctuary Interior, Chancel, and Organ Case (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

2014-01-20 - Chancel and Organ Case (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

2014-01-20 - Sanctuary Interior, Chancel, and Organ Case (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
36 stops
50 registers
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - First organ from Methuen shop. Electrification & rebuild of Church's previous 1888 Johnson & Son Op. 718. [Church also had 1856 Johnson Op. 57 (3-35reg) which burned in 1877, then 1878 Johnson Op. 508 (3m).] -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - The new organ, funded by Mrs. Arthur Curtiss James in memory of her father, Sydenham Clark Parsons, was dedicated by Virgil Fox, with great publicity. -Database Manager

2015-07-30 - Updated through online information from Bill Czelusniak. -- During a full tuning of this instrument in June 2015, in preparation for the OHS convention, we noted a signature "carved" into one expression shade in the Choir division: "A. Mickey Cicala / June 30, 1937 / Finish" -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from Dedication Program, via Jonathan Bowen Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Northampton, Massachusetts
First Church, Congregational

Ernest M. Skinner & Son Organ Co.  Opus 507  1936  3 manuals, 52 stops, 42 ranks
________________________________________________________________________________

         GREAT ORGAN                               SWELL ORGAN
     16' Diapason            61 *              16' Bourdon             73 *
      8' First Diapason      61                 8' Diapason            73 *
      8' Second Diapason     61 *               8' Salicional          73
      8' Principal Flute     61                 8' Voix Celeste        73
      8' Erzähler            61                 8' Gedackt             73 *
      4' Octave              61 *               8' Flauto Dolce        73
      4' Flute [harmonic]    61 *               8' Flute Celeste (tc)  61
  2 2/3' Twelfth             61 *               4' Violina             73 *
      2' Fifteenth           61 *               4' Flute [harmonic]    73
     IV  Mixture            244                IV  Mixture            244
      8' Trumpet             61                16' English Horn        73
         Chimes              25 tubes           8' Cornopean           73
                                                8' Flugel Horn         73
         CHOIR ORGAN                            8' Vox Humana          73
     16' Gemshorn            73                    Tremolo
      8' Diapason            73 *
      8' Concert Flute       73 *                  PEDAL ORGAN
      8' Gemshorn (ext)      12                32' Diapason (resultant)--
      8' Kleine Erzähler     73                16' Diapason            32 *
      4' Flute [d'Amour]     73                16' Bourdon             32 *
  2 2/3' Nazard              61 *              16' Gemshorn            CH *
      2' Piccolo [harmonic]  61                16' Echo Lieblich       SW
      8' Clarinet            73                 8' Octave (ext)        12
         Tremolo                                8' Gedackt (ext)       12
         Harp                                   8' Gemshorn            CH
         Celesta                                8' Still Gedackt       SW
                                            5 1/3' Quinte              CH
                                                4' Fifteenth           CH
                                                8' Still Gedeckt       SW
                                                4' Super Octave        12
                                               32' Fagotto             32
                                               16' Fagotto (ext)       12
                                                8' Fagotto (ext)       12
                                                   Chimes              GT

* ranks retained and extended from the preceding 1889 Johnson & Son organ


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2015-06-10]

Documents

Write-up from THE DIAPASON November 1936 Stoplist and description -Jeff Scofield

Websites

Opus 507: First Congregational Church - (Aeolian-Skinner Archives Web Site) Specification (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)

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