First Congregational Church: Meetinghouse
26 Meetinghouse Lane
Madison, CT
Images
2015-03-13 - Meetinghouse Interior and Chancel (Photograph by Nathan Bayreuther/Database Manager)
2015-03-13 - Meetinghouse Interior, Side Balcony, and Console (Photograph by Nathan Bayreuther/Database Manager)
2015-03-13 - Meetinghouse Interior and Chancel (Photograph by Nathan Bayreuther/Database Manager)
2014-10-15 - Meetinghouse Exterior (Photograph by Nathan Bayreuther/Database Manager)
Unknown - Nave, Console, Balconies, and Pipe Facade ((Spring 1930) Photograph by Nathan Bayreuther/Database Manager)
2015-03-03 - Nave, Console, Balconies, and Pipe Facade (Photograph by Nathan Bayreuther/Database Manager)
2015-03-03 - Console (Photograph by Nathan Bayreuther/Database Manager)
2015-03-03 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by Nathan Bayreuther/Database Manager)
2015-03-03 - Left Stoptabs (Swell and Pedal) (Photograph by Nathan Bayreuther/Database Manager)
2015-03-03 - Right Stoptabs (Great, Echo, and Choir) (Photograph by Nathan Bayreuther/Database Manager)
2015-03-03 - Pedalboard, Swell Pedals, and Foot Levers (Photograph by Nathan Bayreuther/Database Manager)
2015-03-03 - Möller Care Instructions (Photograph by Nathan Bayreuther/Database Manager)
2015-03-03 - Refurbished Harp (Photograph by Nathan Bayreuther/Database Manager)
2015-03-03 - Swell Pipework (Photograph by Nathan Bayreuther/Database Manager)
2015-03-03 - Swell Pipework (Photograph by Nathan Bayreuther/Database Manager)
2015-03-03 - Great and Choir Pipework (Photograph by Nathan Bayreuther/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
- 3 manuals
- 22 stops
- 46 registers
- 4 divisions
- Key action Type: Electrical
- Stop action Type: Electrical
- Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets on Angled Jambs
- Manual compass: 61 notes
- Pedal compass: 32 notes
- Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
- Has crescendo
- Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has combination toe pistons
- Has coupler toe pistons
- Has tutti thumb pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2004-10-30 - Restored with no alterations A. Thompson-Allen 1988. -Database Manager
2013-01-25 - Updated through online information from Nathan Bayreuther. -- This organ is maintained on a regular basis and is in excellent condition. It is used for many other events outside of Sunday worship including a highly popular Lenten organ concert series. -Database Manager
2014-05-08 - Updated through online information from Trevor Paraiso. -- The Thomas G. Shepard Memorial Organ located in the gallery of First Church was built by the M. P. Möller Organ Company of Hagerstown, Maryland in 1930. It is placed ... in two side-by-side chambers; the Swell Organ chamber is on the left side of the gallery (viewed from the pulpit) and the Great and Choir Organs share a larger chamber to the right. The entire instrument is under expression. Restored 2004 by Thompson-Allen -Database Manager
2015-03-04 - Updated through online information from Nathan Bayreuther. -Database Manager
2015-03-29 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The Unison Off functions take the form of On/Off pistons mounted in the top of each right keycheek. -Database Manager
2019-04-23 - Updated by Nathan Bayreuther, who maintains the organ. <br> <br> -Database Manager
2022-01-27 - Contract date, October 29, 1929, promised completion by March 1, 1930, price $10,000. -Paul R. Marchesano
Stoplist
From A. Thompson-Allen website Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
First Congregational Church, Madison, CT
1929 M.P. Möller Opus 5713
Great:
16' Double Open Diapason
8' First Open Diapason
8' Second Open Diapason (GT)
8' Melodia
8' Doppel Floete
8' Gemshorn (CH)
8' Viole de Gambe
4' Octave (CH)
4' Flute Harmonic (CH)
16' Tuba Profunda (GT)
8' Tuba Mirabilis
4' Tuba Clarion (GT)
Harp (Added 2013)
Chimes
Swell:
16' Bourdon (SW)
8' Violin Diapason
8' Gedeckt
8' Viole d'Orchestre
8' Salicional
8' Vox Celeste (tenor C)
4' Orchestral Flute (SW)
4' Salicet (SW)
2 2/3' Flute Twelfth (SW)
2' Flautino (SW)
8' Cornopean
8' Oboe
8' Vox Humana
Tremolo
Choir:
8' English Open Diapason
8' Flute Harmonic
8' Doppel Floete (GT)
8' Gemshorn
8' Viole de Gambe (GT)
8' Dulciana
8' Unda Maris (tenor C)
4' Flauto Traverso (GT)
4' Dulcet (CH)
8' Clarinet
Tremolo
Harp (GT)
Chimes (GT)
Echo (Prepared for):
8' Echo Flute
8' Muted Viole
8' Viole Celeste
4' Flute
4' Violin
8' English Horn
8' Vox Humana
Tremolo
Chimes
Pedal:
32' Resultant
16' First Open Diapason
16' Second Open Diapason (GT)
16' Bourdon
16' Lieblich Gedeckt (SW)
8' Octave (PED)
8' Flute (PED)
8' Violoncello (GT)
16' Tuba Profunda (GT)
8' Tuba Mirabilis (GT)
4' Tuba Clarion (GT)
[Received from Connor Annable 2012-02-08.]
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