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Thomas Dawkins is the Music Director at the Congregational Church of Harvard, UCC

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The Organ of The Congregational Church of Harvard, UCC

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: