Better Pipe Organ Database

Richards, Fowkes & Co. Opus 10 (2000)

First Lutheran Church
299 Berkeley and Marlborough
Boston (Back Bay), MA

OHS convention: 2000

Images

2008-09-15 - Organ (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

2018-05-17 - Organ case (Wayne Johnson/Wayne Johnson)

2018-05-17 - Wedge bellows (Wayne Johnson/Wayne Johnson)

Consoles

Main

2 manuals
24 stops
27 registers
Key action Type: Mechanical (Suspended Tracker)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 2000 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Dedicated Dec. 2000. Previous building contained an 1859 E. & G. G. Hook, Op. 254, now [2000] in the Lutheran Church in North Easton, MA. First organ in this building was a 1978 Wicks organ, Op. 3850 relocted to the Community Church, Aspen, CO c. 1998. -Database Manager

2005-01-13 - Temperament after Kellner. Wind Pressure 70mm. 3 stops prepared. -Database Manager

2021-02-26 - The three prepared stops were added/completed in 2010: Werk (II) - Vox Humana 8, Rückpositiv (I) - Schalmei 4, Pedal - Cornet 2 -Paul R. Marchesano

Stoplist

Stoplist from Richards, Fowkes website Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Boston, Massachusetts
First Lutheran Church

Richards, Fowkes & Co.   Opus 10   2000/2010
2 manuals, 24 stops, 33 ranks
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       WERK                        RÜCKPOSITIV
   16' Bourdon           58     8' Gedackt           58
    8' Principal         58     4' Principal         58
    8' Viol d'Gamba      58     4' Rohrflöte         58
    8' Rohrflöte         58     2' Waldflöte         58
    4' Octave            58        Sesquialtera II  116
    4' Spitzflöte        58        Scharff IV       232
    3' Nasat III        174    16' Dulcian           58
    2' Octave            58     8' Krummhorn         58
       Mixture V        290     4' Schalmei          58*
    8' Trompet           58
    8' Vox Humana        58*

       PEDAL                       COUPLERS
   16' Subbass           30        Werk to Rückpositiv
    8' Octave            30        Werk to Pedal
    8' Gedackt           30        Rückpositiv to Pedal
    4' Octave            30
   16' Posaune           30        Tremulant
    8' Trompet           30        Cimbelstern
    2' Cornet            30*       Temperament Bach-Kellner


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2017-06-19]
* Prepared 2000, Completed 2010

Documents

Stoplist Stoplist with photos -Paul R. Marchesano