David E. Wallace
1996
Originally Thomas Appleton (1840)
St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church
Sanctuary
396 Gilman Road
Yarmouth, ME, US
20 Ranks
Instrument ID: 8857 ● Builder ID: 6490 ● Location ID: 8239
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STOPLISTS
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CONSOLES
Builder: Thomas Appleton
Position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
Design: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
Pedalboard Type: Flat Straight
Features:
2 Manuals (59 Notes)25 Note Pedal3 Divisions16 Stops18 RegistersMechanical (Unknown) Key ActionMechanical Stop Action✓ Combination Trundle(s)Stop Layout: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Expression Type: Trigger/Hitch-Down Expression
Combination Action: Fixed Mechanical
Control System: Unknown or N/A
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DETAILS
This instrument is: Not Extant and Not Playable in this location
This Appleton organ is Extant and at this moment is very playable. [Ed.: The organ is NOT extant here as of this date. It still resides (as of March 2026) in the shop of Columbia Organ Works and Rutgers is making efforts to find a buyer.]
Database Manager on June 6th, 2013:
Updated through online information from David Poile.
Database Manager on February 11th, 2010:
Updated through on-line information from Kip Said.
Database Manager on February 9th, 2010:
Updated through on-line information from Kip Said.
Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
The original builder was Thomas Appleton (1840).
Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
This entry represents the installation of a used organ. From the John & Linda Shortridge residence in Phippsburg, Maine ca. 1996. [temporary installation] Originally built for the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts. Relocated by E. & G.G. Hook to the United Baptist Church in Biddeford, Maine in 1865. To the Shortridge residence in 1979. It has a Dulciana and a treble Cornet on the Swell not found on the Met's Appleton, but the Trumpet on the Great is a short-compass stop.
Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
Status Note: There 1996
Related Instrument Entries: Owner (1979) , E. & G. G. Hook (Opus S-11, 1865) , Thomas Appleton (1840) , Halbert Gober , Columbia Organ Works (2020) , Unknown Builder (ca. 2001)
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