Christ Church Swansea
57 Main Street
Swansea, MA
OHS convention: 2005
Images
2004-05-10 - Organ Case (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)
2004-05-10 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)
2004-05-10 - Left Drawknobs (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)
2004-05-10 - Right Drawknobs (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)
2005-07-14 - Church exterior (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)
2005-07-14 - Organ (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)
2005-07-14 - Keydesk (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- 2 manuals
- 9 stops
- Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stoplist
Stoplist from site visit July 2005 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Swansea, Massachusetts
Christ Church
Nameplate: Geo. S. Hutchings & Co.
Boston
No. 515, 1900
Compasses: 61 manual, 30 pedal
Elegant oak Vaughn-style casework with gilded facade pipes,
slightly cantilevered over keydesk
Original expression-slot scroll tuning and some cone tuning intact.
GREAT
Gr. Open Diapason 8' 1-13 facade, 1-17 zinc, remainder common metal
Gr. Melodia 8' 1-12 stopped wood, remainder open wood
Gr. Dolcissimo 8' 1-12 zinc, remainder spotted metal
Gr. Gemshorn 4' replaced with Principal 4' from tenor-c by
Alfred Mangler in 1963
Gr. Fifteenth 2' 1970, added on jump slide by Potter-Rathbun
using old "Bellows Signal" drawknob
SWELL (enclosed)
Sw. Stopped Diapason 8' from tenor-c; wood
Sw. Stopped Diapason
Bass 8' 1-12; wood
Sw. Aeoline 8' tenor-c; spotted metal
Sw. Salicional Oboe 8' 1-12 zinc, remainder spotted metal
rollered C-d#40
Sw. Flute Harmonique 4' 1-5 zinc, remainder spotted metal
harmonic from middle-c
PEDAL
Ped. Bourdon 16' wood
MECHANICALS
Swell to Great
Swell to Great 8va (unlabeled hitchdown pedal)
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal
Tremolo (Swell)
[Bellows Signal] (now used for Gr. 15th)
Balanced expression pedal
[Received from Scot Huntington 2016-03-02.]
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