OHS Database: Instrument Details

Hutchings, Plaisted & Co., Opus 54, 1875

This organ received OHS Citation number 7, 1975-10-05.

North Parish Universalist
7 Church Street
Woodstock, Vermont 05091

The organ is in a case at the front of the room. Traditional style console with a keyboard cover that can be lifted to form a music rack. The organ has an attached keydesk.

We record information both on an organ's state (as an aspect of its existence as an historical artifact) and on its condition (as an aspect of its existence as a useful musical instrument)

The organ has been restored to a previous state.
The condition of the organ is in not known or has not been reported to the Database.
We received the most recent update on this organ's state and condition 2008-01-10.

Two manuals. 16 stops. 17 ranks. Manual compass is 61 notes. Pedal compass is 27 notes.

Slider chests. Mechanical key action. Mechanical stop action.

Drawknobs in horizontal rows on terraced/stepped jambs. Balanced swell shoes/pedals, not in standard AGO position. Combination Action: Fixed mechanical system. Flat straight pedalboard.

Notes:

Status Note: There 1979. (OHS PC Database. 2004-10-30)
Originally studio organ for Eugene Thayer in the Odd Fellows Building, Tremont & Berkeley Sts, Boston, MA. Purchased by this church in 1881 for $1500. Restored Andover #R-107 1968. (OHS PC Database. 2004-10-30)
Updated through on-line information from Mark Brombaugh. -- The organ was restored by A. David Moore, Inc., North Pomfret, Vermont, in 2007. Work included restoring the windchests, retabling the manual chests, cleaning the entire instrument and regulating the voicing, and enclosing the blower in a silencing box. The dedication recital was played 9-23-07 by William Porter. (Database Manager. 2008-01-10)

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Photographs. Larger images are available through the online version of this page.

Organ. Photograph by Len Levasseur. 2008-02-29.

Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database.

North Parish Universalist Church, Woodstock, VT
Hutchings-Plaisted
Built originally for the Boston studio of Whitney Eugene Thayer (1838-1889).
Tracker 2:1 October 1957

MANUAL I (61 Notes)
8' Principal or Open Diapason 
8' Gedekt or Stopped Diapason 
8' Dolce or Aeoline 
4' Octave or Principal 
4' Lieblich Flöte or Flute d'Amour 
2-2/3' Quinte or Twelfth 
2' Super Octave or Fiteenth   

MANUAL II (61 Notes, Enclosed)
16' Bourdon or Double Diapason 
8' Geigen Principal or Violin Diapason 
8' Salicional or Viol d'Amour 
4' Traversflöte or Flute Harmonique   
8' Trompet or Oboe 

Tremolo
Mixture II or Sesquialtera II  "COLLECTIVE PEDALS"
Manual I to Pedale and Principal 16'
to Withdraw the Same
Manual I Fortissimo
To Withdraw the Same

PEDALE (27 Notes)
16' Principal or Sub Bass 
16' Bourdon or Double Dulciana  (swell)
8' Violoncello or Octave 

Biggs plays the Ives 'Variations on America' in this delightful 
recording titled "The Organ in America -- being a Survey of the 
Organ-Builder's Art as practiced in these United States from the 
Revolution until the War between the States with many Sounds of 
the actual Instruments playing lively Tunes & Musicks of the Day.  
Collected & Performed by E. Power Biggs with divers Article and 
Illustrations of this Fascinating but Little-Known Inheritance." 
Columbia Masterworks LP, MS6161 / ML5496.  Issued ca the 1976 
Bicentennial.

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Hutchings, Plaisted & Co., Opus 54, 1875

This organ received OHS Citation number 7, 1975-10-05.

We record information both on an organ's state (as an aspect of its existence as an historical artifact) and on its condition (as an aspect of its existence as a useful musical instrument)