Worcester Chapter of the American Guild of Organists
Central Massachusetts Pipe Organ Specification Collection

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ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH

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Aeolian-Skinner Organ Company
Boston MA 1933 Opus 909
1940-43, 1951, 1963, 1967;
4 Manuals, 120 ranks, electro-pneumatic

GREAT (II) (61 notes)
16 Montre
8 Principal
8 Flute Harmonique
8 Bourdon
8 Gemshorn
5 1/3 Grosse Quinte
4 Octave
4 Rohrflote
3 1/5 Grosse Tierce
2 2/3 Quinte
2 Doublette
1 3/5 Tierce
1 1/7 Septieme
Fourniture IV
Cymbale III
16 Bombarde
8 Trompette
4 Clairon
8 Trompette a Capot (Ant.)
Chimes
Zimbelstern

POSITIV (I) (61 notes)
8 Nason Gedeckt
4 Spitz Principal
4 Spillflote
2 Principal
1 1/3 Nasat
Zimbel III
Jeu de Clochette II
Tremulant

SWELL (III) (61 notes)
16 Bourdon
8 Geigen
8 Rohrflote
8 Viola de gambe
8 Voix Celeste
8 Flauto Dolce
8 Flute Celeste (TC)
4 Geigen Octave
4 Rohrflote
4 Fugara
2 Octavin
Plein Jeu VI
Cymbale III
16 Bombarde
8 Trompette
8 Hautbois
8 Voix Humana
4 Clarion
Tremulant

CHOIR (I) (61 notes)
(enclosed)
8 Montre
8 Lieblich Gedeckt
8 Viola
8 Viola Celeste
8 Dulciana
8 Unda Maris (TC)
4 Prestant
4 Lieblichflote
2 2/3 Nazard
2 Piccolo Harmonique
1 3/5 Tierce
1 1/3 Larigot
1 Blockflote
Plein Jeu V
16 Dulzian
8 Cromorne
4 Rohr Schalmei
Tremulant
8 Trompette a Capot (Ant.)

ANTIPHONAL (IV) (61 notes)
8 Spitz Geigen
8 Bourdon
4 Prestant
4 Koppelflote
2 Fifteenth
Plein Jeu IV-V
16 Trompette en-Chamade
8 Trompette en-Chamade

BOMBARDE (IV) 61 notes)
Fourniture IV-VIII
Scharf III
16 Bombarde
8 Trompette Harmonique
4 Clairon Harmonique

PEDAL (32 notes)
32 Soubasse (ext.)
16 Contra Basse
16 Soubasse
16 Montre (Gt.)
16 Bourdon (Sw.)
10 2/3 Grosse Quinte
8 Principal
8 Gedeckt Pommer
8 Bourdon (Sw.)
6 2/3 Grosse Tierce
4 4/7 Septieme
4 Octave
4 Harmonic Flute
2 Nachthorn
Fourniture V
32 Contre Bombarde (ext.)
16 Bombarde
8 Trompette
4 Clarion
8 Trompette a Capot (Ant.)
Chimes (Gt.)

Pipes of the celebrated Bombarde division, from high within the main chamber.
On the far wall, above the console, is the 1964 Positiv division.

All Saints Church, founded in 1838, lost its first building, designed by Richard Upjohn, to fire in 1874. Parishioner Stephen Carpenter Earle designed the second church which was also destroyed by fire in 1932. The current building, designed by Frohman, Robb and Little of Boston, was opened in 1934. The first identified organ at All Saints was Opus 163 of William A. Johnson, installed in 1864; two earlier organs were by builders currently unknown. The 1876 Hutchings, Plaisted & Co. organ, Opus 67, was replaced in 1923 by E.M. Skinner's Opus 406. The present Aeolian-Skinner Opus 909 incorporates the same builder's Opus 895, which was used temporarily while the new building was being erected. Changes designed by William Self, organist 1934-1954, in cooperation with G. Donald Harrison, were made during 1940-43 and 1951. The Positiv and Antiphonal divisions were added in 1963 under the dirction of Joseph Whiteford , and a new console was installed in 1967. All organs and additions since 1923 have been given and maintained by the William Ellis and Lucy Draper Rice family.

1999 Region I AGO Convention

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