2011-06-14 - Updated through on-line information from Will Dunklin. -- Organ extant and in use. It appears to have had sympathetic repairs made in the early 1960's, including installation of a new, tracker action pedal board, new bellows and repairs to the manual chests and manual tracker action. June 10, 2011, the church has signed a contract with B. Rule & Company of New Market, Tennessee for an extensive in-place renovation of the organ to include cleaning, action repair and regulation. -Database Manager
2025-03-23 - This entry represents the installation of a used organ by an unknown person/firm at an unknown date. The organ was originally built for the Christian Church in Mt. Sterling, KY. -Jim Stettner
2025-03-24 - Received from Bradley Rule via email (March 23, 2025): We haven’t done much to that organ: they have limited funds. Years ago we cleaned all the dead bats and pigeons out of it, built a roof over it, and screened in behind the facade pipes. Keytails may have been releathered. After considerable time, they have finally gotten the building closed up so the bats are mostly gone. So now we are finally cleaning all the pipes of heavy accretions of accumulated bat guano and re-leathering Bourdon stoppers. The organ must have been moved there about 1929-1930 from Mt. Sterling. There was a great flood in 1957 that rose high enough to get into the organ loft. I assume that’s why the original reservoir and pedalboard have been replaced, and the pedal chest has received some major repairs. But apparently the keyboards and manual chests were spared. I see no evidence of significant restoration work above about the pedal chest level. -Jim Stettner
2025-03-24 - From a church history web page: "The Hook and Hasting Organ, renovated in 1982, sits like a crowning jewel in this majestic building. The pipe organ was the first of its kind to cross the mountains, having been transported from Mt. Sterling in 1928 for the dedication of the Log Cathedral. The music professor from Berea College played it." -Paul R. Marchesano
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