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Andover Organ Co. Opus R-90 (1966)

Images

2023-03-27 - Church exterior (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

2023-03-27 - Brief history of the instrument by Lorna Russell, mounted to the left of the console. (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

2023-03-27 - Organ from the east wall (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

2023-03-27 - Instrument shown, front left of chancel. (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

Consoles

Main

• Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
• Console position: Keydesk Attached
• 2 manuals
• 22 stops
• 18 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: 58 notes
• Pedal compass: 27 notes
• Pedal Type: Flat Straight
• Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
• Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2004-10-30 - The original builder was Goodrich/Simmons-Willcox/Hutchings. (c. 1865). -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1968. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Moved in 1915 from Universalist church, North Attleboro, MA by Hutchings. [The Hutchings list as published by BOC show Hutchings Op. 1728, 3m, El action, in 1916 for the Universalist Church, North Attleboro, MA. Was this organ sold here when they installed that one?] Goodrich/Simmons-Willcox/Hutchings, Plaisted & Co. organ. Rebuilt by Andover 1968, #R-90, 2-20. -Database Manager

2008-07-06 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ is installed in a left side chamber in the chancel. The keydesk is in the chancel. Foot trundle combinations are Great Piano and Forte. The organ has a Great to Pedal reversible foot trundle. The Swell Tremolo is actuated by a hitch-down foot lever. Sources: History of the organ written by Robert C. Newton of the Andover Organ Co.; Andover opus list; extant organ documented March 1988. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Trinity Episcopal Church, Wrentham, Massachusetts
1825 Goodrich/c. 1865 Simmons-Willcox/1915 Hutchings, Plaisted & Co./1968 Andover
(Stoplist: David Schnute from T 12:4:14)
1968 stoplist::

GREAT
8' Open Diapason (58 pipes)
8' Clarabella Treble (34 pipes)
8' Stopped Diapason Bass (17 pipes)
8' Stop'd Diapason Treble (41 pipes)
4' Principal (58 pipes)
4' Flute (58 pipes)
2-2/3' Twelfth (58 pipes)
2' Fifteenth (58 pipes)
1-3/5' Tierce (51 pipes)
III Mixture (174 pipes)
8' Trumpet (46 pipes)

SWELL
16' Double Stopped Diapason Treble (46 pipes)
16' Double Stopped Diapason Bass (12 pipes)
8' Stop'd Diapason Treble (46 pipes)
8' Stop'd Diapason Bass (12 pipes)
8' Dulciana (46 pipes)
4' Principal (58 pipes)
4' Night Horn (58 pipes)
2' Fifteenth (58 pipes)
8' Hautboy (46 pipes)
8' Bassoon (12 pipes)
  
PEDAL
16' Double Open Diapason (27 pipes)

Sw to Gr
Gr to Ped
Sw toPed

Tremulant
Bellows Signal
Great Forte
Great Piano
Reversible

" ... the largest remaining example of this builder's art ..."


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Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

• #2329 - Hutchings Organ Co. (1915)
• #7943 - Welcome K. Adams (1872ca.)
• #7945†* - Simmons & Willcox (1860ca.)
• #7946†* - Hutchings, Plaisted & Co. Opus 118 (1883ca.)
• #7942 - Wm. M. Goodrich (1825ca.)

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