2008-04-27 - Joel Butler case (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)
2025-04-07 - Console (Brink Bush /Scanlon Andrew)
2025-04-07 - Builder's nameplate (Brink Bush /Scanlon Andrew)
2025-04-07 - Case and facade (Brink Bush/Scanlon Andrew)
OHS convention: 1987
2004-10-30 - The original builder was Joel Butler (1874). -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1996. -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Stoplist in OH 1987 is the present (1987) stoplist. -Database Manager
2008-09-07 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- This was a renovation with the addition of the Great III Mixture on two spare slides. The organ was re-dedicated on March 22, 1968 in a recital given by Kenneth Wilson. Sources: Andover opus list; extant organ documented March 1989; OHS 1987 convention handbook. -Database Manager
Stoplist copied from the keydesk March, 1989 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Georgetown, Massachusetts
First Congregational Church
JOEL BUTLER, 1874
Andover Organ Co., R-100, 1966 - Renovation and Addition
GREAT COUPLERS (Drawknob)
8 Open Diapason. 61 Swell to Pedal
8 Dulciana. 61 Great to Pedal
8 Melodia Treble. (tc) 49
8 Melodia Bass. 12 Swell to Great
4 Octave. 61
2-2/3 Twelfth. 61
2 Fifteenth. 61 FOOT LEVERS (Unlabeled; l - r)
III Mixture. 183 Great Piano – 8' Mel t/b, 8' Dul.
Gr. to Ped. - reversible
SWELL (Expressive)
16 Bourdon. (tc) 49 Great Forte – 8,8,8,8,4,2-2/3,2,III.
8 Violin Diapason 61
8 Salicional 61
8 Stopᵈ Diap. Treble. (tc) 49 PEDAL MOVEMENTS
8 Stopᵈ Diap. Bass. 12 Swell Expression (bal.)
4 Flute Harmonique 61
4 Violina. 61
2 Flageolette. [sic] 61
8 Oboe. 61
Tremolo
ACTION: Mechanical Key & Stop
PEDAL VOICES: 17 STOPS: 19
16 Open Diap. 27
16 Bourdon 27 RANKS: 19 PIPES: 1,079
NOTES
This is the third building for the parish which was founded in 1731 as the Second Parish
of Rowley. The second building was known as “South Church” and ca. 1852 they acquired a
Wm. B.D. Simmons organ which was purchased by the Ladies Aid Society of the Congregational
Church in Byfield, Mass. for $400.00 when the new church was built.
The Butler was used for the first time at the dedication of the present building on December
18 1874. The total cost of the building including the black walnut organ case was $21,786.80.
The cost of the case was $28.04 for both labor and materials! The organ is free-standing and
encased in the front gallery. The keydesk is attached and projecting. Stop are drawknobs in
terraced jambs on either side of the manuals. The 3-sectional façade contains 21 stenciled
pipes arranged: 6 – 9 - 6. The Estey organ Co. of Brattleboro, Vermont added an electric
blower in 1919.
In 1966-67 the Andover Organ Co. of Methuen, Mass. renovated the organ mechanically, did some
revoicing, and added the Great III Mixture on two spare sliders. The renovated organ was re-
dedicated in recital by Kenneth Wilson on March 22, 1968.
Sources: 1987 OHS Convention Handbook; Andover Organ Co. files; JRS; extant organ.
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