Unknown - Church Interior, Chancel, and Organ Case (Vintage Postcard, courtesy of T. Bradford Willis, DDS (1913)/Database Manager)
2004-10-30 - The original builder was an unknown New York builder (c. 1845). -Database Manager
2013-05-06 - Updated through online information from Scot Huntington. -- Though the organ has been attributed to Simmons, based on certain stylistic traits, I am inclined to believe this may be the product of Giles Beach, or more remotely, George Stevens. The church history implies the organ was purchased second-hand, source now unknown. There are some indications, requiring a closer inspection, that the case and console may be modifications of an older, pre-1860 instrument. The Cornet knob now controls a second T.G. string stop of 8' pitch.<br><br>The memoir of upstate organbuilder Robert Rowland mentions he almost burned the church down while servicing this organ in the 1930s when he accidentally started a fire inside the organ with a lantern. -Database Manager
2006 private correspondance, stoplist copied from console Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
East Springfield, New York The Presbyterian Church Unknown, perhaps Giles Beach, ca. 1855-1865 Some replacement stop labels, no inscribed pitches Square shanks, projecting console, hitch-down swell pedal 5-sectional case, wooden dummy façade pipes with Roman mouths MANUAL (enclosed) Open Diapason t.g. Stop'd Diapason Treble t.g. Stop'd Diapason Bafs 19 pipes Gr. Salicional t.g. Gr. Principal 54 pipes Gr. Hohlflote Treble t.g. Fifteenth 54 pipes Cornet Gr. t.g. now 8' string PEDAL Pedal 16 13 pipes, behind case Pedal & Great Coupler Bellows Signal Compass: Manual: C-f3, 54 notes Pedal: C-c, 13 notes [Received from Scot Huntington 2013-05-07.]
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