Unknown Builder
1860ca.
First Congregational Church
8 Church Street
Searsport, ME, US
Instrument ID: 10395 ● Builder ID: 6193 ● Location ID: 933
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Builder: Unknown
Position: Keydesk Attached
Design: Traditional Without Cover
Pedalboard Type: Flat Straight
Features:
2 Manuals 3 Divisions30 RegistersMechanical (Unknown) Key ActionMechanical Stop ActionStop Layout: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Expression Type: Unknown
Combination Action: Unknown
Control System: Unknown or N/A
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This instrument is: Not Extant and Not Playable in this location
Paul R. Marchesano on October 6th, 2022:
The first organ In this church of which we have any record...It was a two-manual instrument of about 30 registers. The church appears on the c.1858 Wm. B. D. Simmons opus list, but the keydesk...is in the Simmons style of the 1860s, and the casework is by no means typical of Simmons. It may be that he supplied an instrument prior to 1858, and then rebuilt it in the 1860s. When the present organ was installed, the old organ was "sold to a church in Virginia." Research has not yet revealed which church. -- *1992 OHS Handbook*
The first organ In this church of which we have any record...It was a two-manual instrument of about 30 registers. The church appears on the c.1858 Wm. B. D. Simmons opus list, but the keydesk...is in the Simmons style of the 1860s, and the casework is by no means typical of Simmons. It may be that he supplied an instrument prior to 1858, and then rebuilt it in the 1860s. When the present organ was installed, the old organ was "sold to a church in Virginia." Research has not yet revealed which church. -- *1992 OHS Handbook*
Database Manager on September 27th, 2007:
Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ is in a very handsome case at the front of the room. It is a case style that is quite unique as compared to other extant cases by other New England builders from this same period. It is suggestive of English organs. But the keydesk certainly has the steep terraced stop jambs indicative of an 1860s vintage Wm. B.D. Simmons. There are two towers containing only 2 pipes each, and flanking a central, Romaneque-arched flat of 9 pipes. What is most unique is that above this central flat is a smaller, 3-sectional facade of 19 pipes arranged: 7-5-7 with the central portion of 5 pipes as another small, projecting tower.
Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
Builder's Nameplate: Possibly by W. B. D. Simmons?
Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
Builder uncertain.
Related Instrument Entries: Emory Warren Lane (Opus 101, 1906)
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