Springfield, Massachusetts
Sacred Heart R.C. Church
STEER & TURNER, Opus 82, 1874 - Original Specifications
Unknown Builder, 1880's, Removal, Moving, and Re-installation
Berkshire Organ Co., Opus 48, 1969 - Tonal changes & Repairs
MANUAL (Orig. Expresive)
8 ft. Open Diapason. [TC] 46 pipes 5 zinc; common metal and slotted;
6 cone-tuned trebles.
8 ft. Open Diap. Bass 12 pipes zinc; unenclosed; 2 in front corners
and 10 in case
8 ft. Stopd. Diapason. [TF] 41 pipes walnut caps; concave languids; 9
tapered metal trebles
8 ft. Stopd. Diap. Bass 17 pipes wood
4 ft. Octave. 58 pipes 7 zinc basses; nearly all cone-tuned
4' Nachthorn 58 pipes
2 ft. Super Octave. 58 pipes common metal, slotted in bass octave
III Mixture 174 pipes
8 ft. Oboe. [TF] 41 pipes spotted metal bells with slots on zinc
throughout; 9 flue trebles
8' Oboe Bass 17 pipes
Tremulant
PEDAL
Ped. 16 ft. Bourdon 27 pipes wood; on chromatic chest at rear of
organ
Bellows Signal.
COUPLERS
Manual Coupler. (Manual to Pedal)
FOOT TRUNDLES - 2 combination pedals operate
all speaking stops. Removed.
Piano -
Forte -
ACTION: Mech. Key & Stop VOICES: 8 STOPS: 11 RANKS: 10 PIPES: 549
NOTES
Tonal alterations by Berkshire in 1969. These on 3" pressure and include
general revoicing and regulating. III Mixture replaced Salicional; 174
pipes. Composition: 19-22-26; 15-19-22; 12-15-19; 8-12-15, breaking on
F#'s. Nachthorn 4' uses some pipes of former Violin Bass-Flute Harmonique.
Bassoon 8' - 17 basses added to the Oboe using one of the former 4' knobs;
pipes by Emmons Howard, formerly in St. Thomas R. C. Church, West Spring-
field, MA. [Additional detail in BOC 52:8]