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Owner (1982)

First Lutheran Church: Sanctuary; rear
154 Orchard Street
Ellington (Rockville), CT

OHS convention: 1994

Images

2021 - Dedicatory plaque (Photograph by First Lutheran Church (courtesy of Leslie Carson), submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2021 - Keydesk (Photograph by First Lutheran Church (courtesy of Leslie Carson), submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2021 - Stenciling detail (Photograph by First Lutheran Church (courtesy of Leslie Carson), submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2021 - Right end of case and corner tower (Photograph by First Lutheran Church (courtesy of Leslie Carson), submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2021 - Organ case at the rear of the sanctuary (Photograph by Real Living Real Estate, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
17 stops
18 registers
3 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 - Status Note: There 1994 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - From Masonic lodge, Ann & Allyn St., Hartford, CT. Relocated 1981 through OCH. Altered. Renovated by. Thad H. H. Outerbridge. -Database Manager

2021-08-23 - I found this entry while researching opportunities to sell our organ. I am the church council president at First Lutheran. -Leslie Carson

2021-08-23 - According to the entry for this organ in the book Johnson Organs: 1844-1898, the organ was originally built for the Masonic Temple in Hartford, CT. When it sold in 1982, the organ was relocated [reportedly through the Organ Clearing House] to First Lutheran Church in Rockville, CT. It was installed by church volunteers under the direction of Thad H.H. Outerbridge of Beverely, MA. -Jim Stettner

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist copied from photos of the keydesk August 24, 2021

Ellington, Connecticut
First Lutheran Church

Johnson & Son, Opus 830, 1895 - Original Specifications
Parishioners, 1982 - Re-installation


GREAT                                        COUPLERS (Drawknob)
8'     Open Diapason             58          Swell to Pedale
8'     Melodia                   58          Great to Pedale
8'     Dulciana                  58
4'     Octave                    58          Swell to Great
4'     Flute d'Amour             58
2 2/3' Twelfth                   58
2'     Super Octave              58          FINGER PISTONS
8'     Clarinet                  58          Tremolo  [in Sw. keyslip]  On/Off


SWELL (Expressive)                           FOOT TRUNDLES (Labeled; l - r)
16'    Bourdon                   58          Piano Swell -
8'     Open Diapason             58
8'     Stopped Diapason          58          Forte Swell -
8'     Salicional                58
8'     Aeoline                   58          Gr. to Ped. Reversible
4'     Flute Harmonique          58
4'     Fugara                    58          Piano Great -
8'     Oboe                (tc)  49
8'     Bassoon                   12          Forte Great -


PEDAL                                        PEDAL MOVEMENTS
16'    Sub Bass                  30          Swell Expression           (bal.)

       Pedal Check


ACTION: Mech. Key & Stop    VOICES: 17    STOPS: 18    RANKS: 17    PIPES: 958


NOTES
This organ was originally built for the Masonic Temple in Hartford, CT. When
that facility closed and was sold in 1982, First Lutheran Church bought the
organ on March 15, 1982. It was installed by parishioners under the guidance
of Thad H.H. Outerbridge of Beverly, MA., and first heard for the first time
on Palm Sunday – April 4, 1982.

The organ is free-standing and encased with a 7-sectional facade containing
55 stenciled pipes arranged: 6-6-4-23-4-6-6 with the outer two 6's being flats
at the side of the case, and the next two 6's being round towers. The keydesk
is attached and projecting with a lid that lifts to form a music rack. Stops
are as drawknobs in terraced jambs.

The congregation is merging with another congregation and both the church and
the organ are for sale.

Sources: Johnson Opus List; OHS Database; photos of extant organ


First Lutheran Church
154 Orchard St.
Ellington, CT. 06029                         Documented: August 24, 2021

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