Better Pipe Organ Database

Andover Organ Co. Opus 85 (1981)

Phillips Academy: Cochran Chapel
108 Main St.
Andover, MA

Images

Unknown - Organ in front gallery (Builder's promotional brochure photo in the collection of James R. Stettner, courtesy of James R. Stettner (1981)/Database Manager)

Unknown - Organ in front gallery (Archival source not identified by contributor: James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Unknown - Keydesk (Archival source not identified by contributor: James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
27 stops
27 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Computerized/Digital
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1996 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Much of the fa?ade of the former Casavant, Op. 1177, 1927, was incorporated into the case. The Pedal division in two towers on either side of the main case. Existing carving duplicated in the pipe shades of the pedal towers. The Swell division is located behind the Great. Stoplist also in Osiris. -Database Manager

2007-12-08 - Updated through online information from Stephen Hall. -- Organ replaced Casavant Opus 1177, built in 1927; retains part of the case work from the Casavant. Organ is in regular use for services, teaching and concerts (2007). -Database Manager

2008-01-17 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Dedicated by Karel Paukert on Friday, May 22, 1981. Documented: May, 1988. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., Cochran Chapel Organ
Andover Organ Co., Methuen, Mass.
Op. 85, 1981

 Great 
       16'  Bourdon
        8'  Principal
        8'  Chimney Flute
        4'  Octave
        4'  Flute
    2 2/3'  Octave Quint
        2'  Super Octave
       IV   Fourniture
        8'  Trumpet

 Pedal
       16'  Principal
       16'  Sub Bass
        8'  Octave
        8'  Bourdon
        4'  Choral Bass
       IV   Mixture
       16'  Trombone

 Swell
        8'  Bourdon
        8'  Viola
        8'  Celeste
        4'  Principal
        4'  Flute
        2'  Octave
      III   Cornet
      III   Sharp
       16'  Bassoon
        8'  Oboe
        4'  Clarion
            Tremolo

 Couplers
           Swell to Great
           Swell to Pedal
           Great to Pedal

 mechanical key action
 electro-pneumatic stop action