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2049 Meetinghouse Way, West Barnstable, MA 02668
The first organ for the Meetinghouse was a reed organ.
When the contract was signed in 1906 for the Moller organ, the church agreed to give the M.P. Moller Organ Company the reed organ along with a payment of $600.
M.P. Moller, Inc.
Hagerstown, Pennsylvania, Opus 731, 1907
One manual and pedal
Manual compass: 61 notes (cc to c)
Pedal compass: 30 notes (ccc to f)
Mechanical (tracker) Action
Oak Case
MANUAL I
8' Open Diapason
8' Dulciana
8' Melodia Treble
8' Melodia Bass
4' Flute Treble
4' Violina Bass
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PEDAL
16' Bourdon
COUPLERS
Manual to Pedal Coupler
Manual to Octave Coupler
Bellows signal
Balanced Swell Pedal
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The contract was signed on the 23rd day of November, 1906 with the cost of the organ at $600.
The organ was shipped to the church on June 2, 1907 and consigned to the Rev. G.A. Sherajan.
Harold G. Andrews, Jr.
Centerville, Massachusetts, 1958
Three manuals and pedal
Electro-pnuematic and Electro-mechanical Key and Stop Action
SWELL
8' Bell Gamba
8' Celeste
8' Stopped Diapason
4' Prinzipal
4' Rohr Flote
2' Block Flote
Scharff IV-V
8' Trompette
Tremblant
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GREAT
16' Quintaton
8' Prinzipal
8' Gedackt
4' Octav
4' Spitz Flote
2' Super Oktav
Mixtur IV-VI
16' Dulzian
8' Krummhorn
4' Rohr Schalmei
Positiv to Great
Positiv to Great Sub
Swell to Great
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POSITIV
8' Copula
4' Koppel Flote
2 2/3' Nazard
2' Prinzipal
1 3/5' Terz
1 1/3' Larigot
Zimbel II
Tremblant
Swell to Positiv
ACCESSORIES
General Pistons
(and studs) 1,2,3,4
Swell Pistons 1,2,3,4
Great Pistons 1,2,3,4
Positiv Pistons 1,2,3,4
Pedal Studs 1,2,3,4
Great to Pedal Reversible (piston and stud)
Sforzando Piston (only)
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PEDAL
32' Sub-Bass
16' Prinzipal Bass
16' Sub Bass
16' Quintaton (Great)
8' Oktav
8' Bordun
4' Choral Bass
4' Nacht Horn
Rausch Quinte II
Mixtur III
16' Posaune-Bass
16' Dulzian (Great)
8' Posaune (ext)
4' Rohr Schalmei (Great)
2' Rohr Schalmei
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal
Positiv to Pedal
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The Andrews organ was featured in The Standard Times...Barns, Labor, Time Given to Organ on August 21, 1957
Excerpts from the article:
WEST BARNSTABLE - The West Parish Meetinghouse, now in the process of being restored to look as it did when built in 1717, will also have an 18th Century style organ to provide for its musical needs.
That is being seen to by a young Cape musician, Harold G. Andrews, Jr. of Centerville, who for the last two years has been working and striving to construct an instrument befitting the historical edifice which it will serve.
The 17th and 18th were the great centuries of organ building." Mr. Andrews said as he told of the differences between modern-day instruments and those of that period.
We are trying to make this organ appropriate to a building of that period."
This has required, during the two-year period, correspondence with German organ-builders - the masters of their craft - detailed plans and specifications prepared by young Andrews and spreading-out of the work among barns and workshops on Cape Cod, all of which have been donated by their owners.
All of the work has been and is on a volunteer basis, and all money has been raised by means of a series of recitals by Cape and other musical artists, who have performed in Sunday night series at the Meetinghouse for the last three Summers.
First fruits of their labors are expected to blossom at the end of this Summer, when the organ's swell division - one of four, including a pedal organ, to be part of the instrument - will be installed and ready for use.
"The progress of the restoration has made it imperative that we have a playable instrument as soon as possible," Mr. Andrews said.
When completed, it is expected the organ will be one of the largest in the State.
It will have 50 ranks and more than 3,000 pipes, with accompanying valves and magnets.
The pipework, with the exception of five ranks being salvaged from the organ in the old church - which was built in 1907 - is coming from Germany, where it is being built by the well-known German organ-builder, Carl Giesecke of Gottingen.
It was built following considerable correspondence between young Andrews and Wilhelm Furtwangler, an official of the Giesecke
Fountain of , Oberlin Conservatory of Music, under whom young Andrews studied while at the Ohio school and from which he was graduated this year, was the original intermediary and also was consulted in the plans.
Meanwhile, the cabinet-making phase of the work is being done by Stan Van Riper of Yarmouthport, a member of the parish, who has volunteered his services.
He is in charge of construction of cabinet work on the console.
The keyboards and valves have been fashioned by the Reisner Corporation of Maryland.
Meanwhile, holes are being drilled in the windchest, in which all of the numerous valves must be fitted.
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