James R. McColl Residence
Providence, RI
Opus 1541


 
Great (Enclosed)
8' Open Diapason          61
8' Gross Flute                 61
8' Clarabella                    61
8' Unda Maris [wood]   61
8' Stopped Diapason    61
8' Viol d'Orchestre         61
8' Viol Celeste (tc)         49
8' Salicional                    61
8' Voix Celeste (tc)        49
8' Muted Viol                 61
4' Traverse Flute            61
8' Saxaphone [wood - labial] 61
8' Clarinet [labial]          61
8' Vox Humana              61
   Tremolo
   Chimes
   Harp

Great to Great 16-4
Swell to Great 16-8-4

Swell (Enclosed)
All stops are duplexed from the Great

Swell to Swell 16-4

Pedal (Enclosed)
16' Pedal Bourdon    30
16' Pedal Viol             30

Couplers
Swell to Pedal 8
Great to Pedal 8

Foot Levers
REV [Gr. to Ped.] reversible
PED [Pedal cut-out] reversible

Pedal Movements
Sw/Gt Expression balanced

Crescendo balanced
The organ was originally built for the Providence, RI. residence of James R. McColl on Waterman Street.
It was rebuilt by Estey in 1929.  The home no longer exists.

In 1941, it was removed and reinstalled in the auditorium of Butler Hospital in Providence, RI.

In 1988, it was acquired by Laurence W. Leonard of Laconia, NH. and moved to his residence.
 It was placed in storage for several years while an addition was added to the house to serve as the organ chambers. 
The original console was replaced with a used console from Estey opus 1527, 1917 - originally built for the Fowlerville, MI
residence of John C. Ellsworth. The manuals are used M.P. Moller manuals. The original Estey keyboards did have three pistons for the Swell and three pistons for the Great.


Current Configuration
 
Great (Enclosed)
8'  Open Diapason                     61
8'  Gross  Flute                         61
8'  Clarabella                             61
8'  Stopped Diapason                 61
8'  Viol d'Orchestre                    61
8'  Viol Celeste                 (tc)   49
8'  Salicional                             61
8'  Voix Celeste                 (tc)   49
8'  Muted Viol                            61
8'  Unda Maris [II]      [wood]      122
4'  Traverse Flute                       61
8'  Cornopean                            61
8'  Saxaphone     [wood - labial]      61
8'  Clarinet                   [labial]      61
8'  Vox Humana                         61
Chimes                                
Harp                                     
Snare Drum                           
 
Great to Great 16-4
Swell to Great 16-8-4
Echo to Great 8

Swell (Enclosed)
8'  Open Diapason          (dupl)   - -
8'  Gross  Flute               (dupl)   - -
8'  Clarabella                   (dupl)   - -
8'  Stopped Diapason       (dupl)   - -
8'  Viol d'Orchestre          (dupl)   - -
8'  Viol Celeste                (dupl)   - -
8'  Salicional                    (dupl)   - -
8'  Voix Celeste               (dupl)   - -
8'  Muted Viol                  (dupl)   - -
8'  Unda Maris [II]            (dupl)   - -
4'  Traverse Flute             (dupl)   - -
8'  Cornopean                   (dupl)   - -
8'  Saxaphone                  (dupl)   - -
8'  Clarinet                       (dupl)   - -
8'  Vox Humana               (dupl)   - -
    Chimes                       (prep)   - -
    Harp                           (prep)   - -
 
Swell to Swell 16-4
Echo to Swell  8
  
Echo (Enclosed)
8'  Stopped Diapason                 61
8'  Aeoline                                 61
8'  Unda Maris                   (tc)   49
8'  Vox Humana                         61

 
Echo Pedal (Enclosed)
16'  Bourdon                     (Ec)   12
 
Pedal (Enclosed)
16'  Pedal Bourdon                     30
16'  Pedal Viol                            30
16'  Pedal Trombone   [metal]        30
Bass Drum                        

         Swell to Pedal 8   
       Great to Pedal 8 
 
Percussions
Triangle
Castanet
Crash Cymbal
Xylophone
 
Foot Levers
REV       [Gr. to Ped.]       reversible
 
Pedal Movements
Sw/Gt Expression          balanced
Echo Expression          balanced
Crescendo                     balanced


Action:
Electro-pneumatic duplex and direct-electric unit
 
Voices:  22
 
Stops:  44; inc. percussions
 
Ranks:  23

Pipes:  1,286
 
Notes
Several additions have been made to the organ.  The Haskelled 8' Cornopean was acquired from an Estey originally built for
St. Patrick's RC Church in Milford, NH. (opus 1419, 1916). The original chest was also saved and rebuilt with direct-electric action magnets so that the stops could be duplexed to play on both manuals.

The Pedal 16' Trombone came from a II-manual Aeolian built in 1913 as opus 1257 for the Moultonboro, NH. residence of
Thomas G. Plant. The residence was known as Castle in the Clouds.
 
The Echo division is from several sources. The matched 8' Aeoline and 8' Unda Maris are from the 19?? Hutchings-Votey organ built  for the Congregational Church in Laconia, NH.  The 8' Stopped Diapason is from St. Patrick's RC Church in Milford, NH. And lastly, the 8' Vox Humana is from Estey Opus 1509, built in 1917 for the Flint, MI. residence of Charles S. Mott,
and rebuilt with a 5-rank Echo division in 1925 as opus 2399.
 
Whenever the Echo division is coupled to either the Great or Swell division, it is affected by the intra-manual couplers of that division.
 
Except for the chimes, harp, snare drum on the Great and Bass Drum on the Pedal, the other percussions
are only available as called-for by the player rolls - they have no manual stop controls of their own.
 
The roll player uses 165-note band organ rolls. The organ has been fitted with a MIDI interface computer with record and playback capabilities to record both rolls and or live performances.
 
Sources
Estey opus list
Extant, altered organ
Laurence W. Leonard
James R. Stettner


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