Better Pipe Organ Database

Wm. Johnson & Son Opus 788 (1893)

First Unitarian-Universalist Church: Sanctuary; front
204 East Main Street at Norwood
Meriden, CT

OHS convention: 1994

Images

2007-05-10 - Full view of organ (Photograph by Paul Butkus/Database Manager)

2007-05-10 - Keydesk (Photograph by Paul Butkus/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
3 manuals
30 stops
31 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: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Has combination trundles
Has coupler trundles

Notes

2004-10-30 - Church closed and building sold for other use. Organ available for sale in 2003. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Building was St. Paul's Universalist. Renovated 1960-61 by Richard M. Geddes. -Database Manager

2018-05-07 - By 2003, the church had closed and was sold for other use. Organ was listed as available for sale. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. (Stoplist: Stephen Roberts PIPORG-L 1998) Date not recorded

Meriden, Connecticut
First Unitarian-Universalist Church

Wm. Johnson & Son, Opus 788, 1893


      GREAT (58 notes; Manual II)
16    Bourdon                    58
8     Open Diapason              58
8     Viola da Gamba             58
8     Doppel Flöte               58
4     Octave                     58
4     Flauto Traverso            58
2 2/3 Twelfth                    58
2     Super Octave               58
III   Mixture                   173  (15-19-22 to b12; 8-12-15 to top)
8     Trumpet


      SWELL (Expressive - 58 notes, manual III)
16    Lieblich Gedackt     (tc)  46
16    Lieblich Gedackt Bass      12
8     Open Diapason              58
8     Stopd Diapason             58
8     Salicional                 58
8     Dolcissimo                 58
4     Violin                     58
4     Flute Harmonique           58
2     Flautino                   58
III   Cornet Dolce              174 (Same comp. & breaks as Gt. Mixture)
8     Cornopean                  58
8     Oboe and Bassoon           58
      Sw. Tremolo


      SOLO (58 notes, Manual I)
8     Geigen Principal           58
8     Melodia                    58
8     Dulciana                   58
4     Fugara                     58
4     Flute d'Amour              58
8     Clarinet and Fagotto       58


      PEDAL (30 notes)
16    Double Open Diapason       30
16    Bourdon                    30
8     Violoncello                30


      COUPLERS
Undocumented


      FOOT TRUNDLES (5 double acting composition pedals)
Piano Great
Mezzo Great
Forte Great

Gr. to Ped.                   (rev)

Piano Swell
Forte Swell


      PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell Expression             (bal.)