Our Instruments
Our Organ
The organ at St. Stephen’s was built and installed by Bond Organ Builders in 1994 and remains their largest installation to date. It’s a mechanical action instrument, designed in the style of 19th-century French organs, particularly those built by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll. Our organ was featured in the Organ Historical Society 2008 National Convention. Read more about the history of our organ on our history page.
Stoplist
Grand Orgue
16’ Bourdon
8’ Montre
8’ Bourdon
8’ Salcional
8’ Flute Harmonique
4’ Prestant
4’ Flute Ouverte
2’ Doublette
Fourniture IV
Cornet V (mounted)
8’ Trompette
8’ Cromorne
4’ Clairon
Recit / Grand Orgue
Recit Expressiv
8’ Diapason
8’ Cor de Nuit
8’ Viol de Gambe
8’ Voix Céleste
4’ Prestant
4’ Flute à Fuseau
2-2/3’ Nazard
2’ Quarte de Nazard
1-3/5’ Tierce
Cymbale IV
16’ Basson
8’ Trompette
8’ Hautbois
Tremblant
Pedale
16’ Contrabasse
16’ Soubasse
8’ Montre
8’ Flute
4’ Octave
4’ Flute
Fourniture II
16’ Bombarde
8’ Trompette
4’ Clarion
Tirasse Grand Octave
Tirasse Recit
Our Sanctuary Piano
St Stephen’s is very lucky to have a special grand piano in its chancel: a Falcone Model 74 from the late 1980s. Designed and built by a small team of craftspeople led by master piano technician Santi Falcone in Haverhill, MA, this was arguably the best piano built in the United States at the time. The St Stephen’s piano is remarkable for its clear, singing tone, deep bass sound and agile keyboard action.
Fewer than 500 Model 61 (6-feet-1-inch long), Model 74 (7’4”), and Model 90 (9-feet) grand pianos left the converted shoe factory before production stopped in 1989 and Falcone sold out to Allstar Capital Corporation. The Falcone name was licensed to a succession of Chinese piano manufacturers whose inexpensive instruments bore no resemblance to the original Falcone designs. The last of these Chinese pianos was made in 2016. The people who took over the Haverhill factory resurrected the Mason & Hamlin brand and its excellent original piano designs from the early 20th century. That factory is still making pianos today.
Santi Falcone, who had started his musical life at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, moved a bit further west in Massachusetts and became a chocolatier, opening Dante Confections in North Billerica and online.
Our Chapel Organ
The Chapel organ is a 1972 Gebrs. Vermesulen instrument. It has 9 ranks and 456 pipes.
Stoplist:
MANUAL I COUPLERS (Hitch-down)
8 Roerfluit 56 I / Ped.
4 Prestant 56 I / II
2r Mixtuur [19-22] 112
FOOT LEVERS (labeled; l-r; h-d)
MANUAL II I / Ped.
8 Gedekt [sic] 56 I / II
4 Fluit 56 Tremulant
2 Prestant 56
PEDAL
16 Bourdon 32
4 Koralbas 32
For more information about the St. Stephen’s organ, take a look at our entries on the official Bond Organ Builder’s Inc. website and the Pipe Organ Database. You can also reach out to Minister of Music John Terauds.
Written by Claudia Basile and John Terauds.