Faucher Organ Company, Inc.
Opus 11, 1995
First Parish Church, Congregational
218 Central Avenue
Dover, NH, US
27 Ranks
Instrument ID: 19555 ● Builder ID: 2000 ● Location ID: 9473
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STOPLISTS
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CONSOLES
Builder: Unknown
Position: Movable Console
Design: Traditional With Roll Top
Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Features:
3 Manuals (61 Notes)32 Note Pedal5 Divisions22 Stops65 RegistersElectrical Key ActionElectrical Stop Action✓ Combination Thumb Piston(s)✓ Coupler Toe Piston(s)✓ Sforzando Thumb Piston(s)✓ Sforzando Toe Piston(s)Stop Layout: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination Action: Computerized/Digital
Control System: Unknown or N/A
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DETAILS
This instrument is: Extant and Playable in this location
Updated through online information from Bob Faucher.
Database Manager on February 14th, 2012:
Updated through online information from faucher. -- There is mention of an organ built for this building by William Goodrich containing 13 stops and 731 pipes. It was installed in the rear gallery until 1881. Hutchings-Plaisted was engaged in 1881 to rebuild and enlarge the organ at the left front of the church. This instrument preserved the original pipes and chests of the Goodrich which lasted until 1957. In 1929, the action was converted to electric and a new console provided by William Laws. Rostron Kershaw performed the rebuilding in 1957, providing all new windchests and further enlargement and rearrangement - using the old Laws console. By 1973, it had become unreliable and Berkshire Organ was commissioned to undertake a major tonal revision and enlargement and to provide a new console. In 1995, Faucher Organ Co. was commissioned to tonally enlarge the instrument, build a new 3-manual drawknob console, replace the winding system, and add a digital Choir and Antiphonal divisions.
Database Manager on November 9th, 2007:
Updated through online information from Andrew Tung.
Database Manager on October 30th, 2005:
Identified through online information from Robert Faucher.
Webpage Links: Faucher Organ Company, Inc. [Opus 11 page]
Related Instrument Entries: Wm. M. Goodrich (1829) , Berkshire Organ Co., Inc. (1976) , Hutchings, Plaisted & Co. (1878)
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