Better Pipe Organ Database

Estey Organ Co. Opus 1 (1901)

First Methodist Church
230 Main Street
Brattleboro, VT

Images

Unknown - Organ Case (Photograph from the OHS Vermont Atlas; image courtesy of Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

Unknown - Organ Case (Photograph courtesy of Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

2012-08-20 - Keydesk (Photograph by Justin Hartz/Database Manager)

2012-08-20 - Manuals and Haskell stop action (Photograph by Justin Hartz/Database Manager)

2012-08-20 - Couplers, Great, and Pedal (Photograph by Justin Hartz/Database Manager)

2012-08-20 - Swell and coupers (Photograph by Justin Hartz/Database Manager)

2012-08-20 - Pedalboard (Photograph by Justin Hartz/Database Manager)

2012-08-20 - Swell shoe (Photograph by Justin Hartz/Database Manager)

2012-08-20 - 8' Open Diapason pipes behind the facade (Photograph by Justin Hartz/Database Manager)

2012-08-20 - Casework carving detail (Photograph by Justin Hartz/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
7 stops
7 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: None

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 2003. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Moved into a new building. Electrified? -Database Manager

2007-08-27 - Updated through online information from Philip Stimmel. -Database Manager

2007-11-01 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- 3-sectional facade containing 21 gold-painted pipes arranged: 5-11-5. This includes part of the Great 8' Open Diapason. Sides of case are the first 12 pipes of the Pedal 16' Bourdon, diatonically divided. The Swell 8' Salicional shares the bottom octave of the 8' Stopped Diapason. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed specification Source: from Boston Organ Club Newsletter (July 1966) Date not recorded

Brattleboro, Vermont
First Methodist Church

Estey Organ Co.   Opus 1   1902           2 manuals, 7 stops, 7 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN                      SWELL ORGAN
      8' Open Diapason      61         8' Stopped Diapason   61
      8' Dulciana           61         8' Salicional         49 *
      4' Principal          61         4' Flute Harmonic     61
                                          * common bass
         PEDAL ORGAN
     16' Bourdon            30

         MECHANICALS
         Swell to Great
         Great to Pedal
         Swell to Pedal
         Swell to Great 8ves.
         Swell Tremolo
         Stops are operated by Estey "stop keys"


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2017-11-28]

Websites

Opus 1 - First Methodist Church, Brattleboro, VT [Estey Organs web site] - Photograph, stoplist, historical documents (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)