2004-10-30 - From Grace Church, Utica? -Database Manager
2007-09-11 - Updated through on-line information from Stephen Best. -- I have had students play recitals on this organ. My comment has to do with the suggestion that the organ came from Grace Church, Utica. I have recently done exhaustive research on the Grace Church organs and have found nothing to indicate that Grace ever had a Morey. The 1881 Marklove in Grace was replaced in 1890 by a Hook and Hastings; the Marklove may have contained pipework for an earlier Andrews. The Marklove was sold to the Baptist church in West Winfield and apparently destroyed when the Baptist church closed. In 1893, Morey & Barnes did install an echo organ at Grace, but it was of electric action without a separate console per a Utica newspaper: "The electric action on the echo organ recently placed by Messrs. Morey & Barnes in Grace Church the past week requires nearly three miles of wire between organ and key board and was successfully worked out by Thomas P. Nightingale on the first trial. Three 75 ampere hour storage cells furnish the power and for ordinary service will not require charging in three months." -Database Manager
2008-03-30 - Updated through on-line information from Stephen Best. -- This organ is by C.E. Morey, opus 169, built in 1898 for Olivet Presbyterian Church, Utica, NY. In 1941, it was moved/reinstalled by Paul Buhl at St. Bernard's. The organ is in original condition except for the hand pumping wind mechanism. 2 manuals, mechanical action. Organ is in remarkably good condition, and discussions are underway in 2008 for a sympathetic restoration. -Database Manager
2010-06-15 - Updated through information from Stephen Best: -- Organ restored 2010 by Kerner & Merchant Organ Builders of Syracuse, NY -Database Manager
Typed stoplist from Stephen Best. On-line update from Stephen Best. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Waterville, New York St. Bernard's RC Church Organ by C. E. Morey (1898, Opus 169). This installation by Buhl Organ Co. (1941). STOPLIST Mostly enclosed in a single swell box. Great: 8 Open Diapason 8 Melodia 8 Dulciana 4 Octave Swell 8 Salicional 8 Stopped Diapason 8 Stopped [Diapason] bass 4 Flute Harmonique Pedal 16 Bourdon other mechanicals: organ pumper signal tremolo, swell to great great to pedal swell to pedal
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