First Church of Christ, Congregational
Bradford, MA
Note: Not playable. (in this location)
Images
ca. 1919 - Original appearance before the case was painted and the console was relocated (Photograph from an archival source: Vintage postcard, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2016-03-02 - Sanctuary, Chancel, and Organ Case (Photograph by Wayne Johnson/Database Manager)
2016-03-02 - Console (Photograph by Wayne Johnson/Database Manager)
2016-03-02 - Left Drawknobs (Pedal and Swell) (Photograph by Wayne Johnson/Database Manager)
2016-03-02 - Right Drawknobs (Choir and Great) (Photograph by Wayne Johnson/Database Manager)
2016-03-02 - Choir Pipework (Photograph by Wayne Johnson/Database Manager)
2016-03-02 - Swell Pipework (Photograph by Wayne Johnson/Database Manager)
2016-03-02 - Swell Pipework (Photograph by Wayne Johnson/Database Manager)
2016-03-02 - Pedal Pipework (16' Trombone) (Photograph by Wayne Johnson/Database Manager)
2016-03-02 - Great Pipework (Photograph by Wayne Johnson/Database Manager)
Unknown - Sanctuary Interior, Chancel, and Organ Case ((ca. 1920) Photograph from a 1970's parish calendar; image courtesy of James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
Unknown - Sanctuary Interior and Organ Case ((after sanctuary "Colonial" redesign, ca. 1960) Photograph from a 1970's parish calendar; image courtesy of James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
Unknown - Nave, Balcony, and Console ((ca. 1960) Photograph from a 1970's parish calendar; image courtesy of James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
Unknown - Sanctuary Interior, Chancel, and Organ Case (Vintage Postcard (ca. 1920); image courtesy of William Dunklin/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
- 3 manuals
- 31 stops
- 27 registers
- 4 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 Straight
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
- Has crescendo
- Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has combination toe pistons
Notes
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1979 -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Damaged by fire 24 Dec 1977. Releathered/restored c. 1978 by Robert & Richard Lahaise. Console moved to gallery. -Database Manager
2005-12-23 - Updated through information adapted from <i>E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List</i>, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: <br><i>Rebuild; damaged by fire in 1977; restored by Robert & Richard Lahaise in 1979; console moved to gallery.</i> -Database Manager
2019-02-07 - Probably last played in the 1990s. The church sustained a lightning strike, which has rendered the organ inoperable. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Source: Stoplist copied from the console Date not recorded
Bradford, Massachusetts
First Church of Christ, U.C.C.
The Ernest M. Skinner Co. Opus 286 1919 3 manuals, 31 stops, 26 ranks
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GREAT SWELL (Expressive)
16 Bourdon 73 16 Bourdon 73
8 Diapason 73 8 Diapason 73
8 Clarabella 73 8 Gedeckt 73
8 Erzahler 73 8 Salicional 73
4 Octave 73 8 Voix Celestes 73
8 French Horn * 73 8 Spitz Flute 73
8 Aeoline ** 73
CHOIR (Expressive) 4 Flute (harmonic) 73
8 Diapason 73 3 Rks Mixture 183
8 Concert Flute 73 8 Cornopean 73
4 Flute (harmonic) 73 8 Flügel Horn 73
8 Clarinet 73 8 Vox Humana 73
Tremolo Tremolo
[8] Harp (TC) --
[4] Celesta 61 bars PEDAL
16 Diapason (Open Wood) 32
* enclosed w/Choir 16 Bourdon (Gt) --
** cut down into a 2 2/3 Nazard 16 Second Bourdon (Sw) --
8 Octave 12
8 Gedeckt (Gt) --
8 Still Gedeckt (Sw) --
4 Flute 12
16 Trombone (Wood) 32
8 Tromba 12
Stoplist from Jim Stettner
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