Better Pipe Organ Database

C. B. Fisk, Inc. Opus 55 (1971)

Old West Church, United Methodist
131 Cambridge Street
Boston, MA

OHS convention: 2000

Images

2024-01-13 - Church exterior (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

2016-12-14 - Balcony and Organ Cases (Photograph by Wayne Johnson/Database Manager)

2016-12-14 - Pedal Pipework (16' Bourdon) (Photograph by Wayne Johnson/Database Manager)

2016-12-14 - Builder Signatures (Photograph by Wayne Johnson/Database Manager)

2016-12-14 - Swell Pipework (Photograph by Wayne Johnson/Database Manager)

1999-05-04 - Balcony and Organ Cases (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2024-08-22 - Keydesk (Robert Barney via Facebook /Paul R. Marchesano)

Consoles

Main

3 manuals
29 stops
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Electrical

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 2000. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Building formerly Unitarian. Parts of an Appleton case supplied by OCH. Also an Appleton 8' Open Diapason, formerly in a case. OH 2000 wrongly shows the Opus number as 46 which was for Memorial Church at Harvard. -Database Manager

Stoplist

From C.B. Fisk website Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Old West Church, Boston, MA
1971 C.B. Fisk, Inc. Opus 55

Great (Manual II):
16' Bourdon
8' Prestant
8' Spire Flute
4' Octave
2' Doublet
II Sesquialter
IV-VI Mixture
8' Trumpet
4' Clarion

Choir (Manual I):
8' Stopt Diapason
4' Prestant
4' Night Horn
2 2/3' Nazard (hookdown adds 1 3/5')
2' Doublet
IV Sharp
8' Cremona

Swell (enclosed, Manual III):
8' Violin Diapason
8' Stopped Diapason
4' Spitz Flute
III Cornet 
III Fourniture
16' Contra Hautboy
8' Trumpet

Pedal (32 notes):
16' Bourdon
8' Octave
8' Rohrpipe
8' Spillpfeife
4' & 2' Superoctaves
16' Trombone

 [Received from Connor Annable 2011-08-24.]