Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2004-10-30 - Case only extant in 1960. The notes printed for the 1960 OHS convention indicates that this organ had been built for St. Paul's Church, and installed here in 1789. However, RJB indicates that the Feyring for St. Paul's was still there in 1794, and that Feyring built another instrument for St. Peter's about 1764, which was moved in 1789 to a new gallery over the chancel. -Database Manager
2020-11-19 - Philip Feyring built two organs for St Peter's, hence this may be the source of confusion and conflation of some dates regarding the original organ installed here and the date of the famous case. The present pipe case dates from 1767, created for the church's first permanent organ built by Philip Feyring between 1763 and 1767. That organ and console stood in the middle of the north-side gallery until being moved in 1789 to the present organ gallery over the chancel . From 1761 to 1767, the church had used a smaller, perhaps temporary, organ also built by Feyring. From the moment the organ first sounded, it became apparent to parishioners that the instrument was too loud for worshippers in the gallery; twice between 1767 and 1789 the vestry studied proposals to move it elsewhere. In 1815, an unknown organ maker largely replaced the Feyring organ. -- Information from **OLD ST. PETER'S PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH, PHILADELPHIA: AN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY AND INVENTORY (1758-1991)**, a thesis [MS] in The Graduate Program in Historic Preservation at the University of Pennsylvania, Frederick Lee Richards Jr. [son of the Rev. F. Lee Richards, Rector of St. Peter's Church (1970-1985)], pp 99-100 -Paul R. Marchesano
2020-11-19 - April 10, 1913 (Vestry minutes): Vestry committee studying whether to replace Feyring organ: "The Committee are of the opinion that with very little alterations the organ loft of St. Peter's will be rendered sufficiently large to contain an organ of greater powers than are wanted to fit St. Peter's." Vestry approves plan to sell the old Feyring organ and build a new one "with leave also to lower the back part of the floor of organ loft on a level with the front part of it ... ". April 18, 1914 (Vestry minutes): Vestry resolves to maintain the organ study committee quoted above [suggesting a new one hasn't been built, probably for lack of money]. Sept. 15, 1815 (Dorr's History): An unnamed builder has rebuilt or more probably replaced the Feyring organ for $3,500 within the existing Feyring pipe case. -Paul R. Marchesano
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