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Geo. H. Ryder (1896ca.)

Images

ca. 1905 - Organ case and church interior (Photograph from an archival source: Church archives, submitted by Scot Huntington/Scot Huntington)

Consoles

Main

• Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
• Console position: Keydesk Attached
• 3 manuals
• 20 stops
• 28 registers
• 4 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: 30 notes
• Pedal Type: Concave Straight
• Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
• Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2004-10-30 - From New England Conservatory, Boston. Altered unknown date 2-20; rebuilt Moore ca. 1977, 3-21. -Database Manager

2008-04-16 - Updated through on-line information from Anthony G. Miller. -- Original specs when I first saw & played ca. 1965 was 20 stops, 20 ranks, Great & Choir pallets both connected to bottom manual. 1977 (78?) rebuild restored 3 manual keydesk and added a 5-rank Mixture to the Great. -Database Manager

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

• #14539†* - E. & G.G. Hook & Hastings Opus No.667 (1872)
• #18312†* - Geo. H. Ryder Opus 114 (1883)
• #51335 - A. David Moore Co., Organbuilders (1978)

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