First Baptist Church
Brattleboro, VT
Opus 300
Original Specifications
| Great 8 Open Diapason 8 Second Open Diapason 8 Gross Flute 8 Viol di Gamba 8 Dulciana 4 Octave 8 Tuba Sw to Gt 8-4 Ch to Gt Choir (enclosed) 8 Violin Diapason 8 Concert Flute 8 Aeoline 4 Hohl Flute 2 Piccolo Harmonic 8 Saxophone (labial) Tremulant Sw to Ch |
Swell (enclosed) |
Attached Console
Automatic Player
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Photo courtesy of Brattleboro
Reformer & Jason Henske
| Great 8 Open Diapason 8 Gross Flute 8 Dulciana 4 Octave 2 2/3 Twelfth 2 Fifteenth 8 Tuba Chimes Gt to Gt 4 Sw to Gt 16-8-4 Ch to Gt 16-8-4 Choir (enclosed) 8 Concert Flute 8 Aeoline 8 Vox Angelica 4 Hohl Flute 2 Piccolo 8 Cor Glorieux (Saxophone-Labial) Tremulant Ch to Ch 16-4 Sw to Ch 16-8-4 |
Swell (enclosed) 16 Bourdon 8 Stopped Diapason 8 Quintadena 8 Salicional 8 Voix Celeste (TC) 4 Principal 4 Flute Traverso III Cornet 8 Cornopean 8 Oboe (Labial) 8 Vox Humana Tremulant Sw to Sw 16-4 Pedal 16 Open Diapason 16 Bourdon (Sw) 16 Dulciana 8 Gedeckt Gt to Ped 8 Sw to Ped 8-4 Ch to Ped 8 |
Detached Console
Combinations
Sw
0-6Ch, Gt 0-5
Ped 0-4 (also toe)
Gen 0-7 (also toe)
Sw, Ch, Gt/Ped reversibles, thumb and toe
Crescendo
Balanced Swell and Choir pedals
Sforzando reversible, thumb and toe
The original organ was "provided with an
automatic, or self-playing mechanism,
so that the entire instrument may be played by the use of perforated music rolls.”
The present brick church was completed in 1870, replacing the l841 building on Elliot Street.
A large, two-manual Johnson organ, Op. 342, and having tracker action, was dedicated early
in 1871. Mr. Johnson, of Westfield, Mass., and Dea. Jacob Estey were good friends.
That organ, moved to the Methodist Episcopal Church in Melrose, N.Y., in 1906, has been
in the Congregational Church, Amherst, N.H., since 1962. The new Baptist edifice cost
$50,000 and contained a Jones & Co. bell weighing 4545 pounds and said to be the largest
in the state at that time. The building was considerably enlarged and altered in 1889, and the
window in honor of Jacob Estey and his wife was installed not long afterward. There is a
Tiffany window in honor of Gov. Levi Fuller, who died in 1896 and long a prominent member
of the Estey firm. On the north wall is a tablet honoring Luther W. Hawley, who was for
more than fifty years Estey’s office manager before his death in 1926.
The organ was given in memory
of Gen. Julius Jacob Estey (1815—1902), by his sons,
Jacob Gray Estey and Julius Harry Estey. The dedicatory recital was played on
February 22, 1906, by S. Archer Gibson of the Brick Presbyterian Church, New York City.
The original attached console had a long row of Haskell stop keys, and behind the music
rack and below the extant memorial plaque was the access panel for the automatic mechanism.
The Swell box remains above the Choir division, the latter pipework being behind and a
little below the Great. The organ is a little too old to have Haskell basses.
so that the entire instrument may be played by the use of perforated music rolls.”
The present brick church was completed in 1870, replacing the l841 building on Elliot Street.
A large, two-manual Johnson organ, Op. 342, and having tracker action, was dedicated early
in 1871. Mr. Johnson, of Westfield, Mass., and Dea. Jacob Estey were good friends.
That organ, moved to the Methodist Episcopal Church in Melrose, N.Y., in 1906, has been
in the Congregational Church, Amherst, N.H., since 1962. The new Baptist edifice cost
$50,000 and contained a Jones & Co. bell weighing 4545 pounds and said to be the largest
in the state at that time. The building was considerably enlarged and altered in 1889, and the
window in honor of Jacob Estey and his wife was installed not long afterward. There is a
Tiffany window in honor of Gov. Levi Fuller, who died in 1896 and long a prominent member
of the Estey firm. On the north wall is a tablet honoring Luther W. Hawley, who was for
more than fifty years Estey’s office manager before his death in 1926.
Jacob Gray Estey and Julius Harry Estey. The dedicatory recital was played on
February 22, 1906, by S. Archer Gibson of the Brick Presbyterian Church, New York City.
The original attached console had a long row of Haskell stop keys, and behind the music
rack and below the extant memorial plaque was the access panel for the automatic mechanism.
The Swell box remains above the Choir division, the latter pipework being behind and a
little below the Great. The organ is a little too old to have Haskell basses.
Virgil Fox Plays
Brattleboro,
December 1949
December 1949
Organ Re-Dedication Recital given December 1959
by Harriette Slack Richardson
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Centnnieal Organ Concert given March 24, 2006
by Dr. Frederick Hohman
by Dr. Frederick Hohman
