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Boston-Organ-Club-1969.Pdf TH8 BOSTON ORGAN CLUE NEV!SLET'IER Vol. 5, No. l, Whole No. 39 January 1969 THE JANUARY MEETING will be in the South End, Boston, on the afternoon of Sunday the 26th. At 3:15 we gather at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, 419 Shawmut Avenue. The 2-6 Hook & Hastings Co. organ was built about 1928 and at least serves to reveal the ''taste of the times. 11 The church, however, is very up-to-date in its service to the South End. At 4:00 Barbara Owen will demonstrate the excellent three-manual 1859 E. & G. G. Hook organ in All Saints Lutheran Church, 91 West Newton Street. The organ is Opus 254 and was built for the Church of the Unity on the same location. The Unitarian congregation erected a new Gothic building in 1898 and the organ was placed in a new case in the rear gallery. Following a recent fire, Pastor Vernon Carter worked enthusiastically for the restoration of the building, an expensive undertaking for the congregation. The organ has been in use for just two weeks. Several Club members have wanted to discuss the possibility of helping in the restoration of a worth,y old organ in greater Boston, and the Hook at All Saints is perhaps the best instrument for such a project. The ramifications of the undertaking will be discussed at the January meeting. MIXTURES - Alan Laufman reports that the Organ Clearing House has relocated another old organ. A 2-10 1892 Hook & Hastings, Opus 1523, has been moved from Immaculate Con­ ception R. C• Church, vr esterly, R.I., to the new building of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Episcopal, Acton, Mass.. The work was done by :t.ifr. Laufman, }~ichael House­ man and seven assistants. The organ will be placed immediately behind the altar. On a recent excursion in Pennsylvania, Mr. Laufman found an unusual 2-8 tracker of unknown make in Kissinger 1 s Church, Wyomissing. It was built about 1875 and placed in the church in 1894. The Andover Organ Company has commenced the careful restoration of the unusual 2~16 1875 Hutchings, Plaisted & Co. organ in the North Parish Universalist Church, Woodstock, Vermont. Built for Eugene Thayer's studio, the organ is to be returned a~ost to its original condition, and it is gratifying to know that a good Victorian instrument, adequate for the church, will not receive tonal alterations. The work is in charge of Robert c. Newton, whose siste~as once an organist at the church, and one of her predecessors was Ed Boad:way. The organ will be described in the February Newsletter . The 1897 Johnson & Son article promised this month has been postponed. This News­ letter contains the descriptions of two long-gone Boston three-manual organs •. A -­ long article on William Nutting, the pioneer Vermont builder, is being drafted for Spring publication. Vincent Treanor of Andover, :1\ifass., for several years an 11 organ builder," is now the manager of "The Doors, 11 a teen-age 11 rock11 band. He also provides rehearsal space for a local group called "The Organ Factory." Such avocations may serve to keep Mr. T. out of organ work. The Newsletter is published monthly by the Boston Organ Club, 33 Bowdoin Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02114. Editor: E. A. Boadway, Box 86, Harrisville, New Hampshire, 03450. Meetings are usually held on the last Sunday afternoon of each month. Membership: $5.00 per year. January 1969 Page 2 The organ that brought Hilborne 1. Roosevelt into the limelight was his Opus 15, a three-manual instrument built in 1876 for the Centennial Exhibition in Philadel­ phia. It was by far the western hemisphere's first large and successful organ'with electric action included in the mechanism. In 1882 the organ was rebuilt and placed in Mechanics' Hall, Boston, a large building erected in 1881 at the corner of Hunt­ ington Avenue and West Newton Street. The room in which the organ stood could accomodate 8,000 people and the organ case was obviously influenced by that of the Walcker in the Boston Music Hall. The Roosevelt was removed about forty-five years ago and the pipes are said to have been dispersed by Ernest M. Skinner. The program leaflet of the opening recital is as follows: Page~ 11 0PENING RECITA.L/by/Frederic Archer,jof London,/on the/GRAND ORGAN/ To be presented to the Association by subscribers and/friends, . · recently erected by/HIIBORNE 1. ROOSEVELT, of New York,/in the/ GRAND HALL/of the/Massachusetts Charitable 1Iechanic Association,/ Boston, Hass ./Tuesday, June 27th, 1882 ./Recital begins at 8, p. m. 11 PROGRAMME. PI\.RT I. 1. Concert Variations in E :Frederic Archer !3.. Andante con Hoto (5th Symphony) Beethoven 3. Prelude and Fugue in D Hajor J. s. Bach 4. Aria (Denorah), ''Ombre leggierall Meyerbeer 5. Marche Cortege (La Reine de Saba) Gounod PART II. 6. Offertoire in D Batiste a - Gavotte Frederic Archer 7. { b - Intermezzo Ergmann 8. Fugue in G Major J. S. Krebs 9. Bouree in D l~inor Handel 10. Overture, 11 0beron11 Weber - ... THE ORGAN. This instrument was built by ~~. Hilborne 1. Roosevelt of New York in 1876 as a specimen of the perfection he had reached in his art, and to illustrate the general advance of organ building in this country, and was exhibited during our Centennial Exhibition of that year. It was erected in the North Gallery of the ~~in Building, where it was listened to by many thousands of people from all parts of the world and became known as the "Roosevelt Organ." At the close of those festivities it was purchased by the Permanent Exhibition Company and retained in its position until the building was sold, at which time it was bought by this Association and removed to its present position by Mr. Roosevelt, who at the same time thoroughly rebuilt it. Its dimensions are, width 42 feet, depth 20 feet, and height 41 feet. An increased weight of wind is applied to the solo organ in order to obtain orchestral effects. The 11 Roosevelt11 wind chest, which has a pallet for every pipe and is tubular­ pneumatic in principle, is used in every department of the instrument, render­ ing it proof against derangement from thermometric variations and ensuring a light and ·agreeable "touchrt even when playing full organ with all the January 196 9 Page 3 couplers drawn. Ample passage-ways are provided throughout the organ, making all parts easy of access for inspection and tuning. The reeds and mixtures of the great organ are placed in the swell box, thereby affording,and unusually grand crescendo effect by means of the swell pedal. The drawstop action is tubular throughout and is exceedingly simple in form, sure and prompt in action, and unlikely to get out of order. The combination pedals are peculiarly novel in operation, being so arranged that the organist can, from the keys, readily change or set a combination on any pedal, of from one stop to the full organ. The.mechanism for this is by no means complicated, and may be briefly described as follows:--Directly over the drawstops at each side of the key box are six rows or sets of small knobs (aggregating 222 in number) one row above another. Each row or set represents all the stops in the organ. The lowest row belongs to pedal No. l, the next above to pedal No. 2, and so on. To set a combination on, say pedal No. 1, it is only necessary to push in the knobs on that row representing such stops as you wish drawn; then when No. l pedal is pressed down it will bring on those stops. The pedals do not throw out the registers, but are hooked down when on and released when off. Hence such registers as may be drawn are not interfered with by the combination pedals when released. Each pedal has an indicator placed directly above the swell keys, showing whether it is on or off. The free use of regulators and lungs throughout has ensured a perfectly steady and equal supply of compressed air which is derived from two main bel­ lows of ample dimensions having inverted ribs. These bellows, besides being arranged to blow by hand, are supplied with wind by two "Jacques" hydraulic engines, through the medium of capacious inde­ pendent feeders. The voicing, on which mainly depends the success of the instrument, is deserving of the close study and examination of those interested in the subject, h~ving already earned the unqualified approval of competent judges. It com­ bines all the best points of European voicing with some effects seldom, if ever, before produced. Though a Concert instrument with many reed and other solo effects, the great delicacy, chacteristic quality of tone of the different stops, the immense power of full organ without harshness, and the blending of the whole into an agreeable and massive tone yet not lacking in brilliancy, are all noteworthy features and the result of a most careful school of voicing. The specification will be found on the following page. SPECIFICATION. Three Manuals, Compass CC to a3, 58 notes. Pedals, Compass CCC to F, 30 notes. GREAT ORGAN. l Double Melodia • 16 , ~~ 8 Fifteenth • • . • . • . 2 2 Open Diapason • • • • 8 I ~~ 9 Mixture • • . 5 Ranks 3 Viola da Gamba • • • • . 8 i(-10 Ophec leide . 16 4 Dulciana • • • 8 I ~:.11 Trumpet 8 5 Doppel Flote1l . 8 I -1~ 12 Euphone (free reed) • • 8 6 Principal . • • 4 I 1H3 Clarion • . • • • • 4 7 Flute Harmonique 4 I January 1969 Page 4 S\ITELL ORGAN.
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