2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1996 -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Playable (just) in 1996. -Database Manager
2007-06-19 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Sources: Estey Opus List from Boston Organ Club newsletter (1973-79); stoplist on OHS database. -Database Manager
Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Masonic Temple, Bennington, VT 05201 1923 Estey Organ Co. (Stoplist: Paul Opel 1998) Great: 61 notes, unenclosed (Manual I) 8' Open Diapason (17 Haskell bases in fa�ade. 8' Melodia 8' Dulciana 4' Flute d'Amour Swell: 61 notes, unenclosed (Manual II) 16' Bourdon (1-12 from Pedal Lieblich Gedeckt) 8' Stopped Diapason 8' Viole d'Orchestre 8'Oboe [TC] [Flue] 4' Flute Harmonic 8' Vox Humana Tremolo Pedal: 30 notes, unenclosed 16' Bourdon 16' Lieblich Gedeckt Chime 1 note, from unlabelled button on console Couplers Gt UO-4 Ped 4 (C-f) Sw 16-UO-4 Sw/Gt 16-8-4 Sw, Gt/Ped 8 Swell pedal Crescendo Great/Pedal reverse toe stud Combinations Sw 1: Stopped Diapason, Viole D'Orchestre, Pedal Lieblich Gedeckt Sw 2: Stopped Diapason, Viole D'Orchestre, Flute Harmonic, Oboe, Pedal Lieblich Gedeckt Sw 3: Full, except Vox Humana (NB, includes tremolo), Pedal Lieblich Gedeckt, Bourdon Gt 1: Melodia, Dulciana, Pedal Lieblich Gedeckt, Bourdon Gt 2: Full, Pedal Bourdon and Lieblich Gedeckt Playable (just) in 1996. Pedal stops are not Haskelled, while many of the manual basses are. Vox Humana is very thin and French. Black stopkeys, with lettering on round white buttons. The instrument is in fairly poor shape, with notes not working and the occasional cypher on the Swell. May get some work done on it in 1996. The Swell box has a hatch in the back that gives tuning access for the Vox. Detached console, Radiating concave pedalboard, Compasses C-f-c''''. The Great Open Diapason 8 has 17 Haskell basses in the facade. 1-12 of Sw. Bourdon 16 borrowed from Pedal Lieblich Gedeckt.. Sw. Vox Humana has 13 treble flues. Pedal/Pedal 4 is C-f only. Swell -8, Great -8 on unlabelled pairs of pushbuttons on right keyend blocks. Great/Pedal reverse toe stud.
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