First Congregational Church: Sanctuary; front
28 Green St.
Gardner, MA
Images
2021-12-12 - Memorial organ plaque (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2020-11-29 - Front loft with organ as backdrop (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2020-07-28 - Organ case in front (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2021-12-12 - Sanctuary interior with organ in front gallery (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
ca. 1900 - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Vintage postcard, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
Consoles
Main
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
- 2 manuals
- 3 divisions
- Key action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
- Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Notes
2023-01-24 - This entry represents the installation of a new organ. Identified from the Hutchings Opus List as published in the Boston Organ Club newsletter, Spring-Summer, 1981.
Later electrified by Joseph W. Smith of Boylston, Massachusetts. Later alterations as well. -Jim Stettner
Stoplist
Source: from 'The Organ', February 1894:
Gardner, Massachusetts
First Congregational Church
Geo. S. Hutchings (& Co.), Opus 335, 1984
2 manuals, 22 stops, 25 ranks
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GREAT
8' Open Diapason
8' Viola da Gamba
8' Melodia (Stopped Bass)
8' Dolcissimo
4' Octave
4' Flute d'Amour
2 2/3' Octave Quinte
2' Super Octave
III Mixture
8' Trumpet
SWELL (Expressive)
16' Bourdon (Treble and Bass)
8' Violin Diapason
8' Salicional
8' Stopped Diapason
8' Æoline
4' Flute Harmonique
4' Violina
2' Flautino
II Dolce Cornet
8' Oboe and Bassoon
Tremolo
PEDAL ORGAN
16' Open Diapason
16' Bourdon
COUPLERS
The usual couplers
Octave Coupler (Sw. to Gt.)
FOOT TRUNDLES
Great Piano -
Great Forte -
Gr. to Ped. (rev)
Swell Forte -
Swell Piano -
PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell Expression (bal.)
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2017-10-14]
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