Unknown Builder
1850's

Originally John Snetzler (1762)

Congregational Church

218 Main Street
South Dennis, MA, US

10 Ranks - 460 Pipes

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	MANUAL🛈 Notes: 57 notes, unenclosed
8'	Open Diapason🛈 Notes*: 45 pipes, common bass
8'	Dulciana (TF)🛈 Notes*: 36 pipes
8'	Clarabell (TF)🛈 Notes: 36 pipes
8'	St. Diapason Treble (TF)🛈 Notes: 36 pipes
8'	St. Diapason Bass🛈 Notes*: 21 pipes
4'	Principal Treble (MC)🛈 Notes*: 29 pipes
4'	Principal Bass🛈 Notes*: 28 pipes
4'	Flute🛈 Notes: 57 pipes
2⅔'	Twelfth🛈 Notes*: 57 pipes
2'	Fifteenth🛈 Notes*: 57 pipes
II	Cornet (MC)🛈 Notes: 58 pipes
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Builder: John Snetzler

Position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case

Design: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards

Pedalboard Type: Flat Straight

Features:

1 Manuals (57 Notes)13 Note Pedal1 Divisions9 Stops11 RegistersMechanical (Unknown) Key ActionMechanical Stop Action

Stop Layout: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs

Expression Type: No Enclosed Divisions

Combination Action: None

Control System: Unknown or N/A

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Exhibited in the 1966 OHS convention(s)

This instrument is: Extant and Playable in this location

Database Manager on April 9th, 2012:

Updated through online information from Kenneth Smith. -- Casework: Mahogany front/Oak sides. Console: integral. 1850's, some pipes replaced with substitutes by William B.D. Simmons. 1959, restoration by Charles Fisk and the Andover Organ Co. In the 18th Century, five Snetzler organs were imported to America; only the 1761 Smithsonian and 1762 South Dennis organ survive.

Database Manager on April 22nd, 2010:

Updated through on-line information from John Igoe.

Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:

Restored Andover 1959, 1-11. Fesperman says maybe from DeBleis (sp?) Concert Hall, Boston.

Webpage Links: CapeCast: Old organ, sweet music in Dennis! [You Tube]

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