Better Pipe Organ Database

Andover Organ Co. Opus 93 (1985)

First Congregational Church
10 Union St.
Milford, NH

Images

1985-01-01 - Organ (Andover promotional photo in private collection of James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Detached, Reversed Keydesk (Mechanical Action)
2 manuals
16 stops
20 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: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: None

Notes

2007-09-28 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ is installed in a chamber on the left side of the chancel. The expressive Swell is in the pedestal directly behind the detached/reversed console. The Great is above the Swell. The facade is 5-sectional with 25 pipes arranged: 3-7-5-7-3. -Database Manager

2013-06-13 - Updated through online information from Benjamin G. Mague. -- The Great 8' Trumpet is also duplexed to the Pedal. The Swell 2' Principal is incorporated into the Mixture III , and the 2' is a Blockflute. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the console May 1988 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Milford, New Hampshire
First Congregational Church

Andover Organ Co., Opus 93, 1985 - Original Specifications

GREAT
   16'    Bourdon                     58
   8'     Principal                   58
   8'     St. Diapason                58
   4'     Octave                      58
   2'     Fifteenth / IV Mixture     232   Composition: 15-19-22-26.
   8'     Trumpet                     61

SWELL (Expressive)
   8'     Violin Diapason       (tc)  46
   8'     Celeste               (tc)  46
   8'     Gedeckt                     58
   4'     Spitz Flute                 58
   2'     Principal                   58
   2-2/3' Nazard / II Sesquialtera   116
   III    Sharp                      174
   8'     Hautbois                    58
          Tremolo                          Hitch-down.

PEDAL
   16'    Subbass                     32
   16'    Bourdon               (Gt)  --
   8'     Octave Bass                 32
   4'     Octave                      32
   16'    Trombone                    32

COUPLERS (Hitch-down)
   Swell to Pedal
   Great to Pedal  
   Swell to Great

PEDAL MOVEMENTS
   Swell Expression               (bal.)

ACTION: Mech key & stop
VOICES: 20
STOPS: 19
RANKS: 24
PIPES: 1,264

[Received on line from James R. Stettner July 02, 2009.]