2019-11-11 - Church exterior (Photograph by Wikipedia, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
Unknown - Church interior and organ pipes (Photograph by Len Levasseur, via The Boston Organ Studio, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2004-10-30 - G. Donald Harrison. Used the façade and 7 wood pipes from its predecessor, an 1887 Hutchings-Plaisted, Op. 107. Restoration work on console by Nelson Barden c. 2000. -Database Manager
2007-02-10 - 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>Retained 1881 Hutchings, Plaisted & Co., #107 case. in 1964 as #940-A.</i> -Database Manager
2012-08-02 - Updated through online information from Jonathan Ambrosino. -- In their 1936 instrument, Aeolian-Skinner re-employed the following elements and pipes of the 1883 Hutchings-Plaisted organ: 1. Chancel- and transept-facing façades were retained without alteration. 2. CCC-DD# of the Pedal Violone were retained as the bass of the present Great 16 Diapason. 3. CC-AA of the Great Open Diapason were retained as the bass of the present Great 8 Principal. 4. FFFF-BBBB of the present 32 Sub Bass were made from pipes of the original Pedal 16 Diapason. -Database Manager
2017-05-07 - Tonal changes by Aeolian-Skinner as Op. 940-A, 1964. -Database Manager
From Allen Kinzey via <i>The Aeolian-Skinner Archives</i> and church web site Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Boston, Massachusetts
Church of the Advent, Episcopal
Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co., Inc. Opus 940 1936 3 manuals, 57 stops, 77 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN (3 1/4" wind) SWELL ORGAN (3 3/4" wind)
16' Diapason 61 16' Lieblich Gedeckt 73
8' Principal 61 8' Geigen 73
8' Diapason 61 8' Viol de Gambe 73
8' Flute Harmonique 61 8' Viole Celeste 73
5 1/3' Grosse Quinte 61 8' Stopped Diapason 73
4' Octave 61 8' Echo Salicional 73
4' Principal 61 4' Octave Geigen 73
2 2/3' Quinte 61 4' Flauto Traverso 73
2' Super Octave 61 4' Fugara 73
2' Sesquialtera IV-V 293 2' Fifteenth 73
2' Fourniture IV 244 2 2/3' Grave Mixture III 183
1' Cymbel III 183 1' Plein Jeu III 183
16' Bombarde 73
POSITIV ORGAN (2 1/2" wind) 8' Trompette I 73
8' Rohrflöte 61 8' Trompette II 73
4' Principal 61 8' Vox Humana 73
4' Koppelflöte 61 4' Clairon 73
2 2/3' Nazard 61 Tremolo
2' Blockflöte 61
1 3/5' Tierce 61 PEDAL ORGAN (4" wind)
1' Sifflöte 61 32' Subbass 7 FFFF
1 1/3' Scharff IV 244 16' Principal 32
16' Contrebasse 32
CHOIR ORGAN (3 3/4" wind) 16' Bourdon 32
8' Viola 73 16' Lieblich Gedeckt SW
8' Orchestral Flute 73 8' Principal 32
8' Dolcan 73 8' Flute Ouverte 32
8' Dolcan Celeste (TC) 61 8' Still Gedeckt SW
4' Zauberflöte 73 4' Principal 32
8' Clarinet 73 4' Flute Harmonique 32
Tremolo 3 1/5' Mixture III 96
8' Unenclosed Trumpet 73 * 2' Fourniture II 64
16' Bombarde 32
8' Trompette 32
4' Clairon 32
* The Choir Unenclosed Trumpet was hooded in 1950, moved to the
gallery in 1964, and rebuilt as a chamade in 1968.
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2015-01-03]
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