Pilgrim Congregational Church, UCC: Sanctuary; front
55 Coolidge Ave.
Lexington, MA
Images
September 2022 - Great pipework (R-L): 8' Open Diapason and tubed wind to facade, 4' Octave, 8' Stop'd Diapason (Photograph by Duncan Todd, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
September 2022 - Keydesk: Left stopjamb (Photograph by Duncan Todd, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
Sept. 2022 - Keydesk: right stopjamb (Photograph by Duncan Todd, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
1973 - Keydesk (Photograph by Duncan Todd, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
1973 - Organ case and keydesk (Photograph by Duncan Todd, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2020-01-14 - Organ case in front (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2021-01-06 - Church exterior; facade (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2014-02-06 - Church interior and organ (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
Unknown - Keydesk and Pipe Facade (ca. 1987) (Cover of a church booklet about the organ; image courtesy of James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
- Console position: Keydesk Attached
- 2 manuals
- 16 stops
- 16 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: 30 notes
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Notes
2004-10-30 - The original builder was Hook & Hastings, Opus 1751, 1897. -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1973 -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - OCH. From St. Louis R. C., Webster, MA. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Source: Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Date not recorded
Lexington, Massachusetts
Pilgrim Congregational Church, U.C.C.
1897 Hook & Hastings, Op. 1751
Andover Organ Co., R-149, 1973
GREAT (58 notes)
8' Open Diapason 58
8' Stop'd Diapason 58
4' Octave 58
4' Flute 58
2' Fifteenth 58
III Mixture [1 1/3'] 174
SWELL (Expressive; 58 notes)
16' Bourdon [TC] 46
8' Stop'd Diapason 58
4' Flute 58
2 2/3' Nazard 58
2' Principal 58
1 3/5' Tierce 58
II Sharp [2/3'] 116
8' Oboe 58
Tremolo
PEDAL (30 notes)
16' Bourdon 30
8' Principal 30
COUPLERS (drawknobs)
Swell to Pedal
Great to Pedal
Swell to Great
FOOT TRUNDLES
No combination action
PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell Expression (bal.)
ACCESSORIES
Blowers Signal (now [1973] switch)
NOTES
Alterations from original: Great Melodia and Dulciana removed. Stop'd Diapason
is new chimney flute of metal from TC; lowest 12 pipes are Melodia's stopped
wood basses. Open metal flute made of former Dulciana pipes. New mixture:
CC 19-22-26
c1 15-19-22
c2 12-15-19
c3 8-12-15
Swell Bourdon of wood. Stop'd Diapason of wood with 9 open metal trebles.
Nazard of new, tapered metal pipes; Principal made of former string pipes.
Tierce of new tapered metal pipes, wide scale. New Sharp:
CC 26-29
c1 22-26
c2 19-22
a#2 15-19
f#3 12-15
replaced a 116-pipe Cornet (12-15 throughout). Oboe has mitered basses and
9 flue trebles.
Swell specification originally was: 16' Bourdon 46; 8' Viola 58; 8' Stop'd
Diapason 58; 4' Violina 58; 4' Flute Harmonique 58; II Cornet 116; 8' Oboe
46' and 8' Bassoon 12. Two unlabeled Great combination pedals were removed
to accommodate the modernized Pedal department.
(Stoplist: BOC 92:5)
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