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Andover Organ Co. Opus R-55 (1985)

St. Paul's Episcopal
16 Fair St.
Nantucket, MA

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
12 stops
12 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: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: None

Notes

2004-10-30 - The original builder was Hutchings-Votey (1902, Opus1473). -Database Manager

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

2007-10-19 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- Documented June, 1988. -Database Manager

2008-07-26 - Updated through on-line information from Lee Kohlenberg. -- It is extant in very good condition, all working well (except no tremolo) and used weekly. It can be played well with all couplers on. It is in very good tune. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

Nantucket, Massachusetts
St. Paul's Episcopal Church

Hutchings-Votey Organ Co., Opus 1473, 1902
Andover Organ Co., Opus R-55, 1985 - Tonal Changes & Enlargement

GREAT
   [8]     Op. Diapason             61
   [8]     Stopped Diapason         61
   [4]     Octave                   61
   [4]     Flute                    61
   [IV]    Mixture                 244   Beginning composition: 12-15-19-22.

SWELL (Expressive)
   [8]     St. Diapason             61
   [8]     Viol de Gamba            61
   [4]     Flute                    61
   [2-2/3] Nasard                   61
   [2]     Principal                61
   [1-3/5] Tierce                   61

PEDAL
   [16]    Bourdon                  30

COUPLERS (Drawknob)
   Swell & Pedals                  [8]
   Great & Pedals                  [8]
   Swell & Great                   [8]

FOOT LEVERS (Unlabeled)
   Sw. to Gr. Octave
   Tremolo
   Gr. to Ped.                   (rev)

PEDAL MOVEMENTS
   Swell Expression             (bal.)

ACTION: Mech. key & stop
VOICES: 12
STOPS: 12
RANKS: 15
PIPES: 884

NOTES
The Tremolo is missing and had been previously removed by another organ
technician working on the Vineyard.  That individual had also hade some
less-than-ideal tonal changes which have been reversed and/or eliminated
in the Andover rebuilds.

 [Received on line from James R. Stettner June 29, 2009.]

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