2006-12-21 - Identified through online information from Eric Fahner. -- This church originally had a 4 manual 55 rank Austin in the balcony. This was supposedly from the estate of the founder of the now defunct Trust Company Bank Of New Jersey by the former Jersey City Mayor Frank Hague. All that remains of this organ is the blower in the basement. In the 1960s, when the old Pennsylvania train station was torn down in New York City for Madison Square Garden, the church of the Holy Communion was also torn down, and the organ reworked and relocated to St. Aedan's by the Schantz Organ Company. In 2004 the Perragallo Organ Company of Paterson New Jersey relocated the console to the front of the church, and added digital voices. -Database Manager
2011-05-22 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- The Austin may have been given by the banker, but it was new to the church, not a residence organ. When the Schantz was installed in Holy Communion, New York, it was all-new, retaining none of the Skinner; Holy Communion was not torn down, but was deconsecrated and became the Limelight disco for 13 years; as of 2010, it was a shopping mall; the Schantz, though re-engineered for the gallery of St. Aedan's, was installed "as is" tonally except for the wiring up of a 32' Cornet. -Database Manager
2018-11-20 - Updated by Maria Samuelsson, listing conversations with this person as the source of the information: Edith Ricciardelli Ricciardi. <br> <br>I can confirm that the original pipe organ in the balcony of St. Aedan\'s Church was a four manual Austin. It was donated by Wm. C. Heppenheimer the founder of the Trust Company Bank of New Jersey. My grandmother Edith Ricciardelli Ricciardi and her father Fiore Ricciardelli were his neighbors. My grandmother taught piano and frequently played for Heppenheimer\'s dinner guests. When Heppenheimer donated the church organ, new, to St. Aedan\'s my grandmother became church organist after studying organ with Professor Strauss. As a child, my grandmother would take me up to the loft to see the Austin organ which she fondly remembered playing. -Database Manager
Stoplist from Schantz sales promotional flyer Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Jersey City, New Jersey
St. Aedan's R. C. Church
Schantz Op. 1200 1972 3/39
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GREAT CHOIR
16' Quintaton 61 8' Holzflöte 61
8' Principal 61 8' Flauto Dolce 61
8' Bourdon 61 8' Flute Celeste 49
4' Octave 61 4' Gemshorn 61
2' Super Octave 61 2' Principal 61
IV Fourniture 244 1 1/3' Larigot 61
Sub 8' Cromorne 61
Unison Off Tremulant
Super Sub
Unison Off
SWELL Super
8' Rohrflöte 61
8' Viola 61 PEDAL
8' Viola Celeste 61 16' Principal 32
4' Principal 61 16' Subbass 32
4' Koppelflöte 61 16' Quintaton GT
2 2/3' Nazard 49 8' Octave 32
2' Waldflöte 61 8' Gedackt 32
1 3/5' Tierce 49 4' Choralbass 12
IV Plein Jeu 244 4' Gedackt 12
16' Contra Fagotto 61 2' Gedackt 12
8' Trompette 61 III Mixture 96
8' Fagotto 12 32' Cornet --
4' Clairon 61 16' Posaune 32
Tremulant 16' Contra Fagotto SW
Sub 4' Fagotto SW
Unison Off
Super
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