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Thomas Appleton (1840)

Perkins School for the Blind
Watertown, MA

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
2 manuals
16 stops
18 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 59 notes
Pedal compass: 25 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Trigger/Hitch-Down Expression
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Has combination trundles

Notes

2022-07-25 - This entry represents the first installation of a new organ. Identified by its documented history. The organ has subsequently been owned by: -1840: Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Mass. Original installation. -1865: United Baptist Church in Biddeford, Maine; installed by R. & G.G. Hook -1979: Shortridge residence in Phippsburg, Maine; installed by Organ Clearing House -1996: St. Bartholomew's Episcopal in Yarmouth, Maine; installed by David E. Wallace -????: Donated to Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass. [never actually installed] -20??: Relocated to Oberlin College Conservatory in Oberlin, Ohio [never actually installed] -20??: Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey [restored by Columbia Organ Works in 2020; but still being stored in 2022]. -Jim Stettner

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist copied from a related OHS Database entry (Stoplist: OH 1963:19) 1963

Watertown, Massachusetts
Perkins School for the Blind

Thomas Appleton, 1840


      GREAT (GGG-f3, 59 notes)
[8']  Open Diapason
[8']  Dulciana [TG]
[8']  St. Diapn Treble [TG]
[8']  St. Dia. Bass (24 pipes)
[4']  Principal
[4']  Flute
[3']  Twelfth
[2']  Fifteenth
[III] Sesquialtra
[8']  Trumpet [TG]

      SWELL (Expressive; chest is TG, 35 notes)
[8']  Open Diapason
[8']  Dulciana
[8']  St. Diapn 
[4']  Principal
[III] Cornet
[8']  Hautboy 
      Tremulant

      SWELL BASS (Unenclosed; GGGG - TG, 24 notes)
[8']  St. Diapn Bass (24 pipes)
[4']  Principal Bass (24 pipes)

      PEDAL (25 notes, CCC-C))
[16'] Subbass

      COUPLERS (Drawknob)
Pedal Coupler [notched]: first position is Sw-Ped; 
                         second position is Gt-Ped.

Great to Swell (Swell to Great)

      COMPOSITION FOOT TRUNDLES
Great Piano -

Great Forte -

      EXPRESSION FOOT TRUNDLES
Swell Expression       (hitch-down)

      ACCESSORIES
Bellows Signal

      NOTES
Pedal compass altered late in the 19th century. Pedal compass originally
began on GGGG.
Sesquialtra: 17-19-22; 15-17-19; 8-12-15.
Cornet: 12-15-17

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