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David E. Wallace (1996 ca.)

St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church: Sanctuary
396 Gilman Road
Yarmouth, ME

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
2 manuals
16 stops
18 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 59 notes
Pedal compass: 25 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Trigger/Hitch-Down Expression
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Has combination trundles

Notes

2004-10-30 - The original builder was Thomas Appleton (1840). -Database Manager

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

2004-10-30 - This entry represents the installation of a used organ. From the John & Linda Shortridge residence in Phippsburg, Maine ca. 1996. [temporary installation] Originally built for the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts. Relocated by E. & G.G. Hook to the United Baptist Church in Biddeford, Maine in 1865. To the Shortridge residence in 1979. It has a Dulciana and a treble Cornet on the Swell not found on the Met's Appleton, but the Trumpet on the Great is a short-compass stop. -Database Manager

2010-02-09 - Updated through on-line information from Kip Said. -Database Manager

2010-02-11 - Updated through on-line information from Kip Said. -Database Manager

2013-06-06 - Updated through online information from David Poile. -Database Manager

2024-03-05 - This Appleton organ is Extant and at this moment is very playable. -David Wallace

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist copied from a related OHS Database entry

Yarmouth, Maine
St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church

Thomas Appleton, 1840
David E. Wallace, ca. 1996


      GREAT (GGG-f3, 59 notes)
[8']  Open Diapason
[8']  Dulciana [TG]
[8']  St. Diapn Treble [TG]
[8']  St. Dia. Bass (24 pipes)
[4']  Principal
[4']  Flute
[3']  Twelfth
[2']  Fifteenth
[III] Sesquialtra
[8']  Trumpet [TG]

      SWELL (Expressive; chest is TG, 35 notes)
[8']  Open Diapason
[8']  Dulciana
[8']  St. Diapn 
[4']  Principal
[III] Cornet
[8']  Hautboy 
      Tremulant

      SWELL BASS (Unenclosed; GGGG - TG, 24 notes)
[8']  St. Diapn Bass (24 pipes)
[4']  Principal Bass (24 pipes)

      PEDAL (25 notes, CCC-C))
[16'] Subbass

      COUPLERS (Drawknob)
Pedal Coupler [notched]: first position is Sw-Ped; 
                         second position is Gt-Ped.

Great to Swell (Swell to Great)

      COMPOSITION FOOT TRUNDLES
Great Piano -

Great Forte -

      EXPRESSION FOOT TRUNDLES
Swell Expression       (hitch-down)

      ACCESSORIES
Bellows Signal

      NOTES
Pedal compass altered late in the 19th century. Pedal compass originally
began on GGGG.
Sesquialtra: 17-19-22; 15-17-19; 8-12-15.
Cornet: 12-15-17

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