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Owner (2015)

The Beacon Building: Interior Atrium
814 Elm Street
Manchester, NH

Images

2023-01-27 - Keyboard and stops (Photograph by Stephen St. Denis/Stephen St Denis)

2023-01-27 - Detail of the 1875 stenciled pipework of the façade (Photograph by Stephen St. Denis/Stephen St Denis)

2023-01-27 - Stenciled pipework of the façade (Photograph by Stephen St. Denis/Stephen St Denis)

2023-01-27 - Organ case from an office window (Photograph by Stephen St. Denis/Stephen St Denis)

2023-01-27 - The organ in a balcony above the building's atrium (Photograph by Stephen St. Denis/Stephen St Denis)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
1 manuals
5 stops
8 registers
2 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: 25 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)

Notes

2023-02-05 - The pipe organ was built in 1875 by Boston organ builder George H. Ryder. The organ was installed in the Methodist Episcopal Church in Byfield Village, Massachusetts (Newbury). In 1902 the church relocated the 1875 Ryder instrument into the church’s new building which was built on the same site as the first church building. In 2015 the organ was acquired by the Manchester, NH. Lawrence family, and with the assistance of several staff members of the Andover Organ Co., was carefully relocated to the atrium of an office and retail building in downtown Manchester. The organ is in good playing condition and is occasionally played. The organ is a one manual and pedal instrument with slider wind chest. The organ has five ranks totaling 245 pipes. -Stephen St Denis

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist taken from a related OHS Database listing

Manchester, New Hampshire
The Beacon Building

Geo. H. Ryder (Opus 32, 1875)

Specification:        

    MANUAL:    
8'  Open Diap. Treble      (mc)  34 
8'  Open Diap. Bass              24  1-13 unenclosed    
       
8'  Melodia Treble         (mc)  34
8'  Melodia Bass                 24
        
4'  Violin Treble          (mc)  34
4'  Violin Bass                  24

2'  Fifteenth                    58

    PEDAL (25 notes):    
16' Pedale Sub Bass              13

    COUPLERS
Pedale Coupler	  (Manual to Pedal)

Octave Coupler	(unlabelled; hitch-down)

    PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Expression        (bal.)

    ACCESSORIES
Blowers Signal

    NOTES
An electric blower has been fitted. Bellows handle not extant.

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