Better Pipe Organ Database

M. P. Möller Opus R-736 (1965)

St. John's Episcopal Church
35 Park Street
Williamstown, MA

Images

2016-02-29 - Church exterior (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
2 manuals
9 stops
15 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo
Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - The original builder was Skinner Organ Co. (1929, Opus 792). -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1998 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - 4 ranks of Skinner pipe retained. New console. -Database Manager

2006-05-10 - Updated through information adapted from E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: Rebuild of E. M. Skinner Opus 792 (1929). -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from Moller factory specifications Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       Williamstown, Massachusetts
       St. John's Episcopal Church

       Skinner   Op. 792     1929   2/6
       Moller    Op. R-736   1965   2/9
       ______________________________________________________________________

       GREAT                         SWELL (enclosed)              PEDAL
    8' Spitzprinzipal 61          8' Geigen         61 s       16' Bourdon 56 s1
    8' Geigen         SW          8' Gedeckt        61 s        8' Gedeckt --
    8' Gedeckt        SW          4' Harmonic Flute 61 s    5 1/3' Quint   --
    4' Principal      61 e    1 1/3' Larigot        61          4' Flute   --
    4' Harmonic Flute SW             Tremolo
2 2/3' Twelfth        61 e           Sub
    2' Fifteenth      61 e           Unison Off
       Sub                           Super
       Unison Off                    Blank
       Super                         Blank
       Blank

    e  exposed                    
    s  retained Skinner pipework
    s1 1-44 present pipes; 45-56 new pipes

      [Received online from Jeff Scofield January 20, 2012]

Documents

(1964-08-14) Factory specifications, collection of Jeff Scofield Stoplist and accessories -Jeff Scofield

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#23554 - Skinner Organ Co. Opus 792 (1929)