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OHS Pipe Organ Database
Instrument Details |
St. Paul's Episcopal
160 High Street
Newburyport, Massachusetts 01950
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- Building/Room: St. Anna's Chapel
- William Stevens (1863).
- Current Status: extant, renovated. (Last update 2008-09-15.)
- 1 manual. 2 divisions. 10 stops. 9 ranks. 9 registers. 380 pipes. 56-note manual. 18-note pedals.
- Slider chests. Mechanical key action. Mechanical stop action.
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The organ is in chambers to the sides at the front of the room. There are no visible pipes.
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Traditional style console with a keyboard cover that can be lifted to form a music rack.
Attached keydesk.
Drawknobs in horizontal rows on terraced/stepped jambs.
Trigger/hitch-down swell.
No combination action.
Flat straight pedalboard.
- Additional notes.
- Status Note: There 1996. (OHS PC Database. 2004-10-30)
- Installed in chamber, no case. Hand blown until 1983. Good condition. (OHS PC Database. 2004-10-30)
- Updated through on-line information from Barbara Owen. -- Still in occasional use, 2006. (Database Manager. 2006-09-06)
- Updated through on-line information from Stephen Hall. -- Organ and chapel were recently refurbished, concert for organ and flute held June 13, 2008 to celebrate restoration project ("Boston Globe" article dated June 10). The organ was apparently walled in to the chamber with no access for service, restoration required removing the wall. It is pitched 1/2 tone sharp. (Database Manager. 2008-06-12)
- Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. (Database Manager. 2008-09-15)
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