2007-12-12 - Identified from factory documents and publications courtesy of Stephen Schnurr. -Database Manager
2020-09-26 - On Oct 31, 1926, three members of the Senior Choir gave a total of seven cents to begin a fund for a new pipe organ. In Jan 1930, the congregation gave official consent and builders were consulted. The committee had already virtually settled on the Möller Company but voted on Jan 14, 1931 to also seek other bids. Oddly, by the end of that evening and with half the members absent, the decision to sign with Möller was finalized. The contract was for a three-manual organ of 23 ranks and 30 stops, Opus 5932, including preparation for a future 6-stop Echo Organ that was never completed. The contract price was $8,000. The instrument was dedicated on May 20, 1931 by DeWitt C. Garretson, then organist at St. Paul's Cathedral in Buffalo, NY. His recital program is included in an additional Note. The instrument was the first at this church to be located in chambers, on either side of the sanctuary. This organ was severely damaged by a fire in the early morning hours of March 21, 1942, that started in the pastor's study directly under the Swell chamber. Ultimately, what remained was partially reused by Estey in their Opus 3144, installed in December of that year. -John Anderson
2020-09-26 - **Organ Dedication Recital Program, May 20, 1931, 8pm** - played by DeWitt C. Garretson, AAGO, Organist at St. Paul's Cathedral, Buffalo, NY Concert Overture in C Minor -Hollins Moto Perpetuo -Paganini-Bossi Sonata in G Minor -Rene-Becker Praeludium Scherzo Prayer Toccata The Bee -Lemare The Cuckoo -Lemare Festival Prelude on "A Mighty Fortress" -Faulkes Kanmenoi Ostrow -Rubenstein Toccata and Fugue in D Minor -Bach Celebrated Air -Back Symphony in B Minor ("The Unfinished") First Movement -Schubert Toccata from the Fifth Symphony -Widor -John Anderson
2022-02-28 - The Estey was "modernized" by the Delaware Organ Co. in 1963. The church eventually voted to build a new building on the same plot of land, tearing the old church down. The new church in a modified A-frame style was dedicated in 1973. Fred Burmaster, formerly of the Delaware company, re-fashioned the Estey remains into a new two-manual organ with pipework from a variety of sources, but only the Clarinet was definitively catalogued as being from Moller 5932. This congregation recently merged with the Holy Trinity Lutheran congregation, using the Immanuel building, and is now known as the Tree of Life Evangelical Lutheran Church. -Scot Huntington
Contract held in the American Organ Archives Source: Original contract and church archives Jan. 16, 1931
M. P. Möller (Opus 5932, 1931)
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Jamestown, New York
Compasses: 61/32
Rebuild of unidentified older instrument
New 73-note Moller patent e-p windchests
Stopkey console, detached 30 feet
5" wind pressure
Moller to furnish grill and facade pipes (bronze); no case or Swell box
Church seats 750
GREAT ORGAN:
8' First Open Diapason (sc. 40, Heavy, new)
8' Second Open Diapason (73 pipes, old-Great, top 12 new)
8' Doppel Flute (73 pipes, old, top 12 new)
8' Viol d'Gamba (73 pipes, old, top 12 new)
4' Principal (73 pipes, old, top 12 new)
4' Flute d'Amour (73 pipes, old, top 12 new)
8' Tuba (73 pipes, new)
Chimes (21 bars, Deagan Class A, notes 22-42)
Tremolo
SWELL ORGAN:
16' Bourdon (97 pipe unit, 1-12 new, 13-73 old, 74-97 new)
8' Stopped Diapason (73 notes, from 16' Bourdon)
4' Flute Traverse (73 notes, from 16' Bourdon)
2 2/3' Quint (61 notes, from 16' Bourdon)
2' Flautina (61 notes, from 16' Bourdon)
8' Open Diapason (73 pipes, sc. 42, new)
8' Aeoline (73 pipes, old, top 12 new)
8' Salicional (73 pipes, sc. 60, new)
8' Vox Celeste (61 pipes, sc. 60, t.c., new)
8' Oboe (73 pipes, old, top 12 new)
8' Vox humana (61 pipes, separate swell box, new)
Tremolo
CHOIR ORGAN:
8' Violin Diapason (73 pipes, old, top 12 new)
8' Dulciana (73 pipes, old, top 12 new)
8' Unda Maris (61 pipes, sc. 56, t.c. new)
4' Flute Harmonic (61 pipes, old)
2' Piccolo (61 pipes, old)
8' Clarinet (73 pipes, new)
Chimes (from Gt.)
Tremolo
ECHO ORGAN [console preparation only, to be played from the Great]
1 8'
2 8'
3 8'
4 4'
5 4'
6 8'
7
PEDAL ORGAN:
16' Double Open Diapason (44 pipes, large, new)
16' Bourdon (32 pipes, old)
16' Lieblich Gedeckt (32 notes, from SW 16' Bourdon)
8' Octave (32 notes, from 16' Double Open Diapason)
8' Pedal Flute (32 pipes, old open wood)
8' Cello (32 notes, from GT 8' Viol d'Gamba)
COUPLERS:
SW-GT 16,8,4
CH-GT 16,8,4
GT-GT 16,8,4
SW-CH 16,8,4
SW-SW 16,8,4
CH-CH 16,8,4
GT-PED 8
SW-PED 8
CH-PED 8
Echo "On"-"Off"
Unison Separation On-Off in keychecks:
Great, Swell, Choir
Adjustable Combinations:
Divisions 1-5 each for Great, Swell, Choir, Pedal
Full Organ 1-3
Pedal Movements:
Balanced Expression Pedals for: Great & Choir, Swell, Echo
Grand Crescendo
Sforzando
Great to Pedal Reversible
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