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Emory Warren Lane Opus 101 (1906)

First Congregational Church
8 Church Street
Searsport, ME

OHS convention: 1981, 1992

Images

Unknown - Sanctuary Interior, Chancel, and Organ Case ((ca. 1910) Vintage Postcard; image courtesy of William Dunklin/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
17 stops
17 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: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Adjustable Mechanical

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1992 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Chromatic windchests. Concave, slightly radiating pedal. Compass 61/30. -Database Manager

2007-09-27 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- 5-sectional pipe fence facade with 33 pipes arranged: 7-6-7-6-7. The organ has an abundance of strings. Of 17 registers: 4 are diapasons, 5 are flutes, 1 is reed, and 7 are strings. -Database Manager

2014-02-24 - Updated through online information from John Igoe. -- Andover Organs Rebuilt the instrument in 1996. -Database Manager

2022-10-06 - The E. W. Lane organ has chromatic chests and can be hand-pumped. Except for the common metal Flute Harmonique 4', which has harmonic holes front and back, all of the metal pipework Is spotted and slotted. Zinc basses of the Open Diapason 8', Dulciana 8', and Octave 4' are In the case. The bass of the Flute D'Amour 4' has bored stoppers. -- *1992 OHS Handbook* -Paul R. Marchesano

Stoplist

Typed specification Source: From Larry Philbrick Date not recorded

Searsport, Maine
First Congregational Church

E. W. Lane   Opus 101   1906                        2 manuals, 17 stops, 21 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN                             SWELL ORGAN
      8' Open Diapason        61  m           8' Stopped Diapason     61  m
      8' Dulciana             61  m           8' Salicional           61  m
      8' Melodia              61  w           8' Vox Celeste (TC0     49  m
      4' Octave               61  m           4' Flute Harmonique     61  m
      4' Flute d'Amour        61  w&m         4' Violina              61  m
  2 2/3' Twelfth              61  m           2' Flautino             61  m
      2' Fifteenth            61  m              Dolce Cornet III    183  m
         Mixture III         183  m           8' Oboe and Bassoon     61  m

         PEDAL ORGAN
     16' Bourdon              30  w

         COUPLERS                                PEDAL MOVEMENTS
         Swell to Great 8                        Great Piano
         Swell to Great 4                        Great Forte
         Great to Pedal 8                        Great to Pedal Reversible
         Swell to Pedal 8                        Balanced Swell Pedal

         MECHANICALS
         Tremolo (affects all division)
         Blowers Signal

         Mechanical action
         m = metal
         w = wood


[Received from Larry Philbrick  2017-08-03]

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