2023-03-01 - Roxbury Latin School is the oldest continually run independent prep school in the country. It is a non-residential school for boys, 7-12, without religious affiliation, and has a landscaped campus with several buildings. "The Hall" is the main gathering auditorium and can seat the whole student body for lectures, assemblies, meetings, and as a performance space. The organ is located at the front left, just against the front of the raised speaker's platform and perpendicular to the axis of the room. The builder was an alumnus of the school in the 1960s. The organ is very compact to the point it is challenging to access for service and tuning. The handsome case of solid mahogany is very finely crafted. The builder is more widely known as a harpsichord builder, and makes a point of using wood varieties and grain pattern as the decorative elements of the casework, and many of the small parts, i.e. stop knobs, keyboards, internal parts appear to be hand-crafted. The Great is an A chest, the Swell is behind and slightly above the Great with an M chest. The wind system is a double-rise reservoir with wood wind trunks connected to the lid of the reservoir with accordian trunks. The Great is fed with one trunk but the Swell has two, one with an internal Tremblant doux, now disconnected. The Great chest has an in-built winker. The Oboe with double french blocks and half-length bass is made by the builder as are the wood pipes. The keyboards have short naturals typical for a harpsichord. The keyaction is balance, i.e. not suspended. -Scot Huntington
Source: From the console Feb. 27, 2023
Jeremy Adams (ca. 1985)
Roxbury Latin School
West Roxbury, Mass.
Compasses: 56/30
Equal temperament, slide tuned.
GREAT
Open Diapason [tin]
Chimney Flute
Principal
Fifteenth
Mixture [3 rks]
SWELL [enclosed]
St. Diapason [wood]
Flute [4', open metal]
Oboe [double-blocked, 1/2L bass]
Tremolo [in-line type (tremblant doux), disconnected]
PEDAL
Subbass [wood]
Wind
COUPLERS [hitch-down pedals]
Sw/Gr
Gr/Ped
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