Groton School: St. John's Chapel
282 Farmers Row
Groton, MA
Images
2023-09-20 - Nameplate (Photograph by Jonathan Ortloff, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2023-09-20 - Chapel interior, console in concert position (Photograph by Jonathan Ortloff, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2023-09-20 - Console being removed for renovation (Photograph by Jonathan Ortloff, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2019-01-30 - Organ case and chapel interior (Photograph by Stephen St. Denis/Stephen St. Denis)
2019-01-30 - Console (Photograph by Stephen St. Denis/Stephen St. Denis)
2019-01-30 - Chapel exterior (Photograph by Stephen St. Denis/Stephen St. Denis)
2009-05-07 - Front of chapel with organ case (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)
2009-05-07 - Organ case (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Movable Console
- 3 manuals
- 74 stops
- 6 divisions
- Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled 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 - Altered G. D. Harrison and E. B. Gammons 1948, 1954, etc; altered Kinzey-Angerstein 1981, console rebuilt and Great and Positive revoiced, 3-91. 2/92 form - stop list. -Database Manager
2006-11-24 - Updated through information adapted from <i>E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List</i>, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: <br><i>Replaced 1900 three manual Geo. S. Hutchings; alterations and additions from 1945 through 1993. Retoration work by Nelson Barden & Associates ongoing since 1990.</i> -Database Manager
2010-06-30 - Updated through online information from Michael Smith. -- This organ was arguably the prototype for Harrison's vision of the American Classic organ movement. The updates described above reference a renovation/restoration completed in 2003 by Jonathan Ambrosino and Mike Foley. -Database Manager
2017-11-24 - Updated by Dan Moriarty, who has heard or played the organ. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Typed stoplist Source: from Allen Kinzey Date not recorded
Groton, Massachusetts
Groton School - St. John's Chapel
Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co., Inc. Opus 936 1935-1962
3 manuals, 68 stops, 92 ranks
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There were many alterations and additions by the company from 1945 to 1962,
including relocating the console, tonal additions, alterations and revoicing.
The Processional organ was relocated to the console's former niche. Here is an
overview of the company's work thru 1962:
GREAT ORGAN
16' Sub Principal 61
8' Diapason 61
8' Principal 61
8' Flute Harmonique 61 (replaced by ex-PO 8' Rohrflöte)
8' Gemshorn 61
5 1/3' Grosse Quinte 61
4' Octave 61
4' Principal 61
3 1/5' Grosse Tierce 61 (replaced by 4' Flute Couverte)
2 2/3' Quinte 61
2' Superoctave 61
1 3/5' Tierce 61 (replaced by ex-PO 2' Blockflöte)
IV Full Mixture 244 (reworked as IV Sesquialtera)
IV Fourniture 244
III Cymbel 183 (replaced by ex-PO III Scharf reworked)
8' Bombarde 73 (later addition)
SWELL ORGAN
16' Flute Conique 73
8' Geigen 73
8' Gedeckt 73
8' Viole de Gambe 73
8' Viole Celeste 73
8' Flauto Dolce -- (from 16' Flute Conique)
8' Echo Viole 73 (replaced by Flute Cel 54 GG)
4' Octave Geigen 73
4' Flute Triangulaire 73 (replaced by ex-GT 4' Flute Oct)
4' Fugara 73
2 2/3' Nazard 61
2' Fifteenth 61
1 3/5' Tierce 61
VI Plein Jeu 366 (divided into III Mixture with one new
rank 183 and IV Plein Jeu 244)
16' Bombarde 73 (replaced in kind)
8' Trompette I 73 (replaced in kind)
8' Trompette II 73 (replaced by Hautbois)
8' Vox Humana 61
4' Clarion 73 (replacedl by ex-CH 8' Tromp Harm)
Tremolo
8' Gedeckt - Processional in choir vestibule, eliminated
8' Viola - Processional in choir vestibule, eliminated
CHOIR ORGAN
16' Quintaton 73
8' Viola 73
8' Orchestral Flute 73
8' Dulciana 73
8' Unda Maris (TC) 61
4' Lieblich Flute 73 (replaced by 4' Nachthorn)
2' Zauberflöte 61
16' English Horn 73
8' Trompette Harmonique 61 (replaced by ex-SW Trompette II)
8' Clarinet 73
4' Rohrschalmei 73 (later addition)
Tremolo
8' Bombarde GT (later addition)
8' Gedeckt PRO (eliminated)
8' Viola PRO (eliminated)
POSITIF ORGAN
8' Rohrflöte 61 (replaced by 8' Singendgedeckt)
4' Principal 61
4' Koppelflöte 61
2 2/3' Nazard 61
2' Blockflöte 61 (replaced by 2' Principal)
1 3/5' Tierce 61 (reworked)
1' Sifflöte 61 (shifted to 1 1/3' Larigot)
IV Scharf 244 (replaced by IV Cymbel)
PEDAL ORGAN
32' Contrebasse 12
16' Principal 32
16' Contrebasse 32
16' Bourdon 32
16' Flute Conique SW
16' Quintaton GT (later addition)
10 2/3' Grosse Quinte 32
8' Octave 32
8' Flute Ouverte 32
8' Cello 12
8' Gedeckt SW
5 1/3' Quinte 32
4' Super Octave 32
4' Flute Harmonique 32 (harm portions of pipe cut off)
4' Gedeckt SW
2' Waldflöte 32 (later additions)
III Mixture 96
III Fourniture 96
16' Bombarde 32
16' English Horn CH
8' Trompette 32
4' Clairon 32
Processional
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2017-11-24]
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