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Andover Organ Co. Opus 26 (1957)

First Religious Society (Unitarian): Sanctuary; rear gallery
26 Pleasant Street
Newburyport, MA

OHS convention: 1987

Images

2008-04-27 - Joseph Alley case (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
27 stops
31 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: None

Notes

2004-10-30 - The original builder was Alley, Joseph (1834). -Database Manager

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

2004-10-30 - Rebuilt of church's Alley/Hutchings; (Reb or altered by Fisk 1974.?) Mechanical couplers. Manual Compass 56 notes (CCC-g'). Stop and pedal action electrified, 32 note pedalboard added. Pipework revoiced. Pedal board changed in 1993 to 30-note, flat by Wissinger. -Database Manager

2008-09-15 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- Source: 1987 OHS Convention Handbook -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed specification Source: from Boston Organ Club Newsletter (August 1966) Date not recorded

Newburyport, Massachusetts
First Religious Society (Unitarian)

Andover Organ Co.   Opus 26   1957            2 manuals, 27 stops, 32 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN                          SWELL ORGAN
     16' Bourdon                56         8' Diapason               56
      8' Diapason               56         8' Salicional             56
      8' Stopped Diapason       56         8' Voix Celeste (TC)      44
      4' Octave                 56         8' Stopped Diapason       56
      4' Chimney Flute          56         4' Principal              56
  2 2/3' Twelfth                56         4' Flute                  56
      2' Fifteenth              56         2' Fifteenth              56
      2' Flautino               56     1 1/3' Larigot                56
  1 3/5' Tierce (TC)            44            Sesquialtera II       112
         Mixture IV            224         8' Oboe                   56
         Cimbel II             112         8' Clarinet (TC)          37
      8' Trumpet                56            Tremolo

         PEDAL ORGAN (32 notes)               COUPLER
     16' Diapason               27            Swell to Great (by toe stud)
     16' Bourdon                27            No combination action
      8' Octave                 56
      8' Gedackt                44
  5 1/3' Quinte (fr. 8' Oct)    --
      4' Fifteenth (fr. 8' Oct) --
      4' Gedackt (fr. 8' Ged)   --
      2' Twentysecond (8' Oct)  --

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