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Berkshire Organ Co., Inc. Opus 48 (1969)

Sacred Heart Catholic Church: Sanctuary; rear gallery
395 Chestnut Street
Springfield, MA

Images

2016-06-03 - Left Stop Jamb (Photograph by David Gauthier/Database Manager)

2016-06-03 - Right Stop Jamb (Photograph by David Gauthier/Database Manager)

2018-12-14 - Stop imprint, "W. BOYRER PATP NOV. 9, 1869" (Photograph by David Gauthier/Database Manager)

2018-06-14 - Pipework (Photograph by David Gauthier/Database Manager)

2015-12-16 - Pedal windchest stamped, "F.C.MILLER" (Photograph by David Gauthier/Database Manager)

2015-09-22 - Nameplate (Photograph by David Gauthier/Database Manager)

2016-09-22 - Organ in Rear Gallery (Photograph by David Gauthier/Database Manager)

2018-12-30 - Console (Photograph by David Gauthier/Database Manager)

2017-01-05 - Organ in rear gallery (Photograph by David Gauthier/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
1 manuals
8 stops
11 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: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: No Enclosed Divisions
Combination action: None

Notes

2004-10-30 - Altered Berkshire? 1969, 1-10. -Database Manager

2019-01-06 - Updated by David Gauthier, who maintains the organ. The following information was physically verified by David Gauthier in 2018. Tonal & Mechanical Rebuilding by Berkshire Organ Company of W. Springfield, MA 1969, as indicated on the nameplate. Organblo blower (located in the N. Tower), replaced with a Ventis along with a bellows. The following have been removed: Combination, Swell, Tremulant, Bellows Signal. Pedal windchests are stamped, \"F.C.MILLER\", for Frederick C. Miller of Steere & Turner. Stop knobs are stamped, \"W. BOYRER PATP NOV. 9, 1869\", for William Boyrer of NY. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Stoplist: BOC 52:7 Date not recorded

Springfield, Massachusetts
Sacred Heart R.C. Church
 
STEER & TURNER, Opus 82, 1874 - Original Specifications
Unknown Builder, 1880's, Removal, Moving, and Re-installation
Berkshire Organ Co., Opus 48, 1969 - Tonal changes & Repairs


MANUAL (Orig. Expresive)
8 ft. Open Diapason.     [TC]  46 pipes   5 zinc; common metal and slotted;
                                          6 cone-tuned trebles.

8 ft. Open Diap. Bass          12 pipes   zinc; unenclosed; 2 in front corners
                                          and 10 in case

8 ft. Stopd. Diapason.   [TF]  41 pipes   walnut caps; concave languids; 9
                                          tapered metal trebles
8 ft. Stopd. Diap. Bass        17 pipes   wood

4 ft. Octave.                  58 pipes       7 zinc basses; nearly all cone-tuned

4'    Nachthorn                58 pipes

2 ft. Super Octave.            58 pipes   common metal, slotted in bass octave

III   Mixture                 174 pipes

8 ft. Oboe.              [TF]  41 pipes   spotted metal bells with slots on zinc
                                          throughout; 9 flue trebles

8'    Oboe Bass                17 pipes

      Tremulant


PEDAL
Ped. 16 ft. Bourdon            27 pipes   wood; on chromatic chest at rear of
                                          organ
     Bellows Signal.


COUPLERS
Manual Coupler. (Manual to Pedal)


FOOT TRUNDLES - 2 combination pedals operate
                all speaking stops. Removed.
Piano -

Forte -
 

ACTION: Mech. Key & Stop    VOICES: 8    STOPS: 11    RANKS: 10    PIPES: 549


NOTES
Tonal alterations by Berkshire in 1969. These on 3" pressure and include
general revoicing and regulating. III Mixture replaced Salicional; 174
pipes. Composition: 19-22-26; 15-19-22; 12-15-19; 8-12-15, breaking on
F#'s. Nachthorn 4' uses some pipes of former Violin Bass-Flute Harmonique.
Bassoon 8' - 17 basses added to the Oboe using one of the former 4' knobs;
pipes by Emmons Howard, formerly in St. Thomas R. C. Church, West Spring-
field, MA. [Additional detail in BOC 52:8]

Documents

Sacred Heart Organ Update by Berkshire Organ Company OHS archive documents related to the 1969 update by the Berkshire Organ Company to include a history of the church and organ, contract, notes. -David Gauthier

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