1989-03-15 - Front Choir Loft with Gallery and Nave Facades (Photo taken by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
1989-03-15 - Gallery Facade (Photo taken by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
2004-10-30 - The original builder was George S. Hutchings (1899, Opus495). -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1986 -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Extensive tonal changes. Ded. 13 Apr 1986 by Rosalind Mohnsen. -Database Manager
2007-07-09 - Updated through online information from Leonardo Ciampa. -- I played it on July 1, 2007. Condition is near perfect. -Database Manager
2012-04-18 - Updated through online information from Scot Huntington. -- After a 1955 electrfication and tonal enlargement of the original instrument by the Williams Organ Co. of Swampscott, Mass., the instrument had become mechanically unreliable by 1983. In 1985, the organ was rebuilt as an essentially new tracker-action instrument by Angerstein & Associates of Stoughton, Mass., reusing the original chamber, mahogany Hutchings casework, and gilded facade pipes. Almost all Hutchings pipework remaining after the Williams electrification was reused, but tonally modified by rescaling, repitching, and/or revoicing, with the addition of several new stops, including an enlargement of the pedal from 2 ranks to 5. The organ was dedicated on January 19, 1986, and formally "opened" in a recital by Rosalind Mohnsen on April 13, 1986. In 2011, the congregation merged with another congregational church in Arlington, and both the building and organ are for sale in 2012. -Database Manager
Examination of the organ, 2009 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Arlington, Massachusetts
Pleasant Street Congregatonal Church
Geo. S. Hutchings, op 495, 1899
Electrified and tonally altered: Williams Organ Co. 1955
Retrackerized, rebuilt, and enlarged: Angerstein & Associates, 1985
GREAT 61 notes
Open Diapason 8' 1-12 facade, orig; new from c13
Spire Flute 8' NEW
Octave 4' orig., rescaled and revoiced
Flute d'Amour 4' orig., wood w/metal trebles
Super Octave 2' 1955, rescaled and revoiced
Mixture IV NEW
Trumpet 8' NEW
SWELL 61 notes, enclosed
Bourdon 16' orig.
Violin Diapason 8' orig.
Violin Celeste 8' orig. revoiced
Stopped Diapason 8' orig.
Principal 4' orig. Aeoline cut down and revoice
Harmonic Flute 4' orig. rescaled and revoiced
Flute 2' 1955, rescaled and revoiced
Nazard/Cornet II half-draw 2 2/3 fr. Salicional cut-down and revoiced; full draw adds
Tierce 1 3/5 fr. Violina 4' cut down and revoiced
Oboe 8' orig. revoiced
PEDAL 30 notes
Open Diapason 16' orig.
Bourdon 16' orig.
Octave Bass 8' NEW
Choral Bass 4' NEW
Trombone 16' NEW
Hitch-down registers
Swell to Great
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal
Tremolo (affects whole organ)
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