Pipe Organ Database

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C. B. Fisk, Inc. (Opus 62, 1974)

Location:

Ascension Memorial Church, Episcopal
31 County Street
Ipswich, MA 01938 US
Organ ID: 6917

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Status and Condition:

  • This instrument's location type is: Episcopal and Anglican Churches
  • The organ is unaltered from its original state.
  • The organ's condition is unknown.
We received the most recent update for this instrument's status from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.

Technical Details:

  • Chests: Slider
  • 31 ranks. 3 divisions. 2 manuals. 22 stops.
All:
  • Chest Type(s): Slider chests
  • Position: In a case at the front of the room.
We received the most recent update for this division from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.
Main:
  • Manuals: 2
  • Divisions: 3
  • Stops: 22
  • Position: Detached keydesk (mechanical action).
  • Manual Compass: 61
  • Pedal Compass: 32
  • Key Action: Suspended tracker.
  • Stop Action: Mechanical connection between stop control and chest.
  • Console Style: Traditional style without cover.
  • Stop Controls: Drawknobs in horizontal rows on terraced/stepped jambs.
  • Combination Action: No combination action.
  • Swell Control Type: Balanced swell shoes/pedals, not in standard AGO position.
  • Pedalboard Type: Concave radiating pedalboard meeting AGO Standards.
  • Has Hitchdown Couplers
We received the most recent update for this console from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.
Database Manager on March 10, 2007:

Updated through online information from Pierce Phillips. -- Voiced to be loud, piercing, and shrill.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Database Manager on October 30, 2004:

Status Note: There 1987

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Database Manager on October 30, 2004:

Contains some older pipework. [Church previously had a 1901 tracker, later badly electrified.]

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Source not recorded: Open In New Tab Specification from builder's web site
We received the most recent update for this stoplist from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.

Instrument Images:

Console: Photograph by Wayne Johnson. Taken on 2017-04-02

Organ Case and Console: Photograph by Wayne Johnson. Taken on 2017-04-02

Organ in room: Photograph by Fisk, submitted by John Roper. Taken approx. 1973

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