Better Pipe Organ Database

Wm. Johnson & Son Opus 592 (1883)

First Congregational Church: Sanctuary; front
42 Park Street
Adams, MA

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
19 stops
22 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Has combination trundles

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1998 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - In c. 1830 Thomas Appleton case. Restoration in 1978 by Czelusniak & Dugal. 3 divided stops. -Database Manager

2005-06-14 - On-line update from Lawrence Bishop -- For better tuning access, the bottom Gt. Diapason pipes were removed, and the Appleton case pipes utilized. The Sw. Dolcissimo is tuned as a Celeste. It is believed by some of us, and acknowledged by Alan Laufman ("Miscellanea Organica," <i>The Northeast Organist</i>, Nov. & Dec. 1996) that the source for the Appleton case of this organ is the 1830 Appleton organ in South Congregational Church, Hartford. I have documentation that the church purchased a large Appleton organ in the fall of 1854, several months after Johnson replaced the Appleton in Hartford. The newspaper articles do not state that the organ was used, or from another location, so the evidence is circumstatial. However, the price paid could indicate that the organ was not new. -Database Manager

Stoplist

(Stoplist: Paul Opel 1998) Source: Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. 1998

Adams, Massachusetts
First Congregational Church

Johnson & Son, Op. 592, 1883


      GREAT (C-a''' )
8     Open Diapason
8     Melodia
8     Dulciana
4     Octave
4     Flute D'Amour
2 2/3 Twelfth
2     Fifteenth
8     Trumpet


      SWELL (Expressive)
16    Bourdon Treble  (TC)
16    Bourdon Bass
8     Open Diapason
8     Stopped Diapason Treble  (TC)
8     Stopped Diapason Bass
8     Salicional
8     Dolcissimo  (TC)
4     Fugara
4     Flute Harmonique
2     Flautino
8     Oboe  (TC)
8     Bassoon Bass
      Tremolo


      PEDAL C-d'
16    Double Open Diapason
16    Bourdon


      COUPLERS
Swell to Pedal
Great to Pedal

Swell to Great
Sw. to Gt. Octaves


      COMBINATION FOOT TRUNDLES
Piano Great - (Melodia, Dulciana)

Forte Great - (Full)


      PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell Expression     (bal.)


      ACCESSORIES
Pedale Check


      NOTES
The organ is in an exquisite case by Thomas Appleton, c. 1835. The
Johnson Great Open Diapason basses D#-g# have been removed and stored
in the chamber. The original Appleton facade pipes have been returned
to speech.

Documents

(2005-06-10) On Two Appleton Organs History of the organ, by Lawrence Bishop. -Database Manager