Better Pipe Organ Database

Unknown Builder (1859)

Alfred Parish Church - Congregational
8 Kennebunk Road
Alfred, ME

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

Images

Unknown - The 1805 Gray organ as it stood from 1859 to 1907, showing the original glass doors (Photograph from an archival source: The Tracker 22:2, p. 4, courtesy of Alan Laufman, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

1900-01-01 - From the church website, this is a picture of the "Gray Organ" before it was replaced with an modern Estey in 1907 (Photograph from an archival source: Alfred First Parish, submitted by Nicholas R Scott/Nicholas R Scott)

Consoles

Main

1 manuals
9 stops
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical

Notes

2004-10-30 - OCH. From Harvard University. Moved to Christ Episcopal, Cambridge, MA. -Database Manager

2022-09-30 - The first organ in the Alfred Congregational Church was built in 1805 by William Gray, New Road, Fitzroy Square, London. A small one-manual instrument, It was obtained in 1859 from Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and served until 1907. For a complete history of the travels of the Gray organ, still extant and located at Christ Church, Cambridge, Mass., see Barbara Owen's article "Tracing An English Chamber Organ", *The Tracker*, Vol. 22, No. 2, Winter 1978, p.1. -- *1992 OHS Handbook* -Paul R. Marchesano

Stoplist

Source: The Tracker 22:2, p. 6 Winter 1978

Alfred, Maine
Alfred Parish Church - Congregational

William Grey, 1805
Unknown Builder, 1859 - Moving & Reinstallation


      MANUAL (partially expressive)

[8']  Open Diapason (half stop)
[8']  Dulciana (half stop, in swellbox)
[8']  Stop'd Diapason (treble)
[8']  Stop Diapason Bass
[4']  Principal
[4']  Flute (stopped wood)
[2']  Fifteenth
[II]  Sesquialtera (bass)
[III] Cornet (treble)
[8']  Oboe (half stop, in swellbox)

The divided stops break at middle C, as is common
in English organs of the period, and the compass is
also typically English, going from GGG below the
modern CC (but lacking the GGG#) to e3 two octaves
above middle C.

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries