2004-10-30 - The original builder was an unknown builder (c. 1855). -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1979 -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Relocated from Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Franklin, VA (Organ 8309). Installed by church volunteers under the guidance of Culver Mowers. -Database Manager
2008-10-02 - Updated through online information from Cullie Mowers. -- It is in excellent condition and is used at every Sunday service and other occasions. -- Pedal compass originally 13; pedalboard and stops (2) extended to 17 - 2008 -Database Manager
2022-04-01 - Built ca.1855 by one of the Philadelphia German builders, for a church in or near Philadelphia. It was extensively rebuilt by Adam Stein of Baltimore and installed at Emmanual Episcopal in Franklin, Virginia. When that congregation moved into a new building with the organ in 1914, and electric blower was installed. When they bought a new Kinzey-Angerstein instrument in 1977, the unaltered Stein organ was gifted to St. Thomas in Slaterville Springs where it replaced a reed organ. Renovated by church volunteers over the course of the next two years, the organ was dedicated on April 1, 1979. The pipework was fitted with slider tuners but otherwise unaltered except for the replacement Steer & Turner Melodia, and the 1898 Salicional (which replaced the original 2 2/3), which in turn was rescaled and cut down to become a new 2 2/3'-- the goal being to return the organ to its ca. 1855 specification. The church website notes the two pedal stops were extended from 13 to 17 notes in 2006, using recycled old pipes. The 1914 blower stayed with the organ in the move to New York. -Scot Huntington
Source: From church website ca. 2007
Adam Stein (1898) rb. Culver L. Mowers (1977) St. Thomas Episcopal Church Slaterville Springs, New York ca. 1855 Unknown (Philadelphia) 1898 rb. Adam Stein 1977-2006 rb. Culver Mowers Stoplist not exact, interpolated from description on church website: Organ MANUAL [enclosed] 8' Open Diapason 1898, small facade 1855 8' Melodia 1872/1977 Steer & Turner 8' Dulciana 1898 8' Stop'd Bass unknown 4' Octave 1898 4' Flute 1855 wood, 2006 metal trebles (old pipes) 2 2/3' Twelfth 1898/1977 Salicional cut down and revoiced 2' Fifteenth 1855 PEDAL 13 notes, expanded to 17 in 2006 with old pipes 16' Sub Bass 1855/2006 8' Octave Bass 1855/2006 Manual to Pedal Coupler Bellows Signal
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