Church Notes

The organ was originally built in 1863 by George Stevens, and was renovated by the Andover Organ Company in 1965 as their opus R 69, and subsequently expanded in 1990, also by the Andover Organ Company. Andover Organ has renovated many organs including the Walcker at Methuen Memorial Music Hall, the Hook & Hastings organs at First Parish in Lexington and at Goddard Chapel at Tufts University, as well as having built organs for the chapel at Philips Academy in Andover, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and as far away as San Bernadino, California.

Originally, the organ was built with a full great manual and a swell with the first 17 notes as a common diapason rank and the remaining 39 notes having different stops. In 1990, this was changed so that all of the swell stops are full compass. The original pedal was 18 notes and was expanded to 27 at an unknown date before 1965.

The instrument is a fully mechanical tracker organ with 15 ranks of pipes on two manuals (56 keys each) and pedalboard (27 notes). The swell is enclosed and operates with an expression pedal. Its current disposition is as follows:

Great	56 Notes, unenclosed
16' Bourdon TC	44 pipes
8' Open Diapason	56 pipes	some pipes in façade
8' Hohlflöte	56 pipes
4' Principal	56 pipes
4' Flute	56 pipes	bass octave added in 1990
2 2/3' Twelfth	56 pipes
2' Fifteenth	56 pipes
1 3/5' Tierce TC	44 pipes	new in 1965, extended in 1990
Swell	56 Notes, enclosed
8' Open Diapason	44 pipes	bass octave common with St. Diapason
8' Stopped Diapason	56 pipes
8' Dulciana	56 pipes	originally on Great
4' Principal	56 pipes
2' Flageolet	56 pipes	new in 1965
8' Hautboy	56 pipes	bass octave and a half new in 1990
Tremulant
Pedal	27 Notes, unenclosed
16' Double Open Diapason	27 pipes
Couplers
Swell to Great
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal